Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda,
Please accept our humble obeisances at your divine lotus feet! All glories to you on this most
auspicious appearance day!
Thank you for sowing the seed of bhakti and devotional service in the hearts of everyone, with-
out distinction!
Thank you for the ocean of unconditional compassion toward all the fallen souls!
Thank you for visiting us!
Thank you for sacrificing your life for us!
Thank you for showing us how to live a Kṛṣṇa conscious life!
Thank you for your legacy!
Thank you for the books you translated and commentated for our benefit!
Thank you for your stalwart disciples, who are capable of guiding us and preaching your mis-
sion further!
Thank you for our new life and the chance to return back to Kṛṣṇa, back to Godhead!
Thank you for your full-length photo hanging in our temple room, giving us the chance
to touch your lotus feet, which can deliver us. They save us from the bondage of the material
world, which keeps us trapped like fools. We bow down before you again and again in respectful
obeisances.
Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda we beg for your mercy! Please help us to attain Kṛṣṇa consciousness!
Only by the mercy of Lord Caitanya, by your mercy, and by the mercy of your great disciples can
we be saved! Thanks to the spiritual master, we are not left alone on the path to Kṛṣṇa! Without
Kṛṣṇa consciousness, true and eternal happiness is impossible to achieve!
Thank you for this, Gurudeva! Thank you for being the one we, your spiritual grandchildren
and great-grandchildren, can follow. We bow down before you again and again in respectful obei-
sances, dear Śrīla Prabhupāda. Falling at your lotus feet we beg for your mercy: please help us
attain Kṛṣṇa consciousness!
Thank you for your godly mercy on all fallen souls!
Thank you for your selfless, superhuman work!
Thank you for the knowledge you left behind for generations to come!
For all these reasons we would like to express our highest esteem for you on this very auspi-
cious day of your appearance.
Your instruction to chant and read daily is keeping us always in touch with you! We are aston-
ished by the depth of your comments on the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and your devotion and love for
the Supreme Lord. Your words lead always to bhakti, pure devotional service to Śrī Kṛṣṇa. Your
books purify our hearts and deepen our devotion every day.
Also, thank you for your ISKCON society! Thank you for allowing us little spiders to be in
Lord Caitanya’s army, with you captaining us toward pure love of God in this lifetime!
What can one say to you other than to say continually “Thank you, thank you, thank you”? You
are and remain the jagad-guru! You inspire through Your books. You speak through your disciples
and followers in their lectures. You sing through the devotees. When we distribute your books,
you give us instructions from within. There is no day we do not remember you!
Thank you for sending us exactly the right gurus, who correct us from within. Thank you for
sending us śikṣā-gurus, who train us in such a way that even persons like us understand how to
become Kṛṣṇa conscious and, hopefully, remain so eternally.
Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda! All glories to your Divine Grace and the guru-paramparā! On the day
of your Vyāsa-pūjā, we wish to express our gratitude to your parents – your father, Gour Mohan
De, for his great contribution in developing your love for Śrī Śrī Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa and encourag-
ing your heartfelt attachment to serving Their lotus feet; and your mother, Rajani De, for her con-
cern for your health, growth, and well-being.
In our life, you also play a significant role as both father and mother, grandfather and grand-
mother, all rolled into one. It is because of you that we have come to know about Kṛṣṇa and
loving devotional service to the Supreme Absolute Truth, God, Śrī Kṛṣṇa.
Because of you, we are growing up in your spiritual home called ISKCON, receiving spiritual
care and instruction, learning the science of devotional service from your disciples. Because of
you, we and many thousands of people have received the saving nectar of spiritual knowledge, the
real breath of life, without which there would be no chance to know about God as He really is.
There would be no chance to know that there is an eternal relationship between us, the jīva, and
Kṛṣṇa, and that the way to know and develop this relationship is through devotional service. You
have made the difficult simple. You have extended a helping hand to all living entities, and we
pray to you that we and all who have come into contact with the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement
not only get a chance to go back to Godhead but also utilize that chance to the fullest. We thank
you and the entire guru-paramparā, along with our spiritual master, for the opportunity to serve
Lord Caitanya’s movement. Hare Kṛṣṇa.
Your devotees at Harināma-deśa, Weisbaden