Dear Guru Mahārāja,
Please accept my respectful obeisances. All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda and his followers. All glories to Your Divine Grace.
I think that by now it is fairly clear to all that you are extraordinarily dedicated to preaching Lord Caitanya's teachings to the mass, at great and formidable personal risk. Your tireless preaching spirit in today's ISKCON reminds us of the (g)olden days of ISKCON when we believed in the great glory of full-fledged surrender unto Lord Caitanya's mission with no consideration of our personal needs whatsoever. As a result, a few of us among your disciples are beginning to re-embrace that spirit with full faith that avaśya rakṣibe kṛṣṇa--Krishna will certainly protect us.
JPS Publications, now Victory Flag Publications, has got into a publication spree, thanks to the infrastructure provided by JPS Archives. Translations of your books in several languages are now happening. Your special books, the Caitanya book and your memoir on Prabhupāda, will soon be publishable, up to "BBT standards", as you would say.
Moreover, on your recommendation, we now have sister projects to serve ISKCON's mission: Pāṇḍava Prabhu has Nimāi Nitāi Studios posting important videos on Śrī Māyāpur, Śyāma Rasika Prabhu has Rūpa Raghunātha Vāṇī Publications publishing translations of selected writings of Śrīla Bhaktivinoda and even a series on Śrī Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa. I have been busy with both of these publication activities (and some service to BBT International too, upon their request) and with occasional teaching of śāstra at the Māyāpur Institute and elsewhere. And I have come to the point of understanding what I need to do to tangibly progress in Krishna Consciousness and how to help others too. In this manner, I am gradually becoming busy in the vicāra, ācāra and pracāra of bhakti.
So, the spiritual horizon does look good with more than just silver linings.
On this sacred occasion, I fall at your lotus feet and beg you to bless me and all involved in your projects with vairāgya-vidyā-hari-bhakti-yoga in such a manner that we can both progress unidirectionally from śraddhā to prema and do the greatest good to the world at large in a manner pleasing to Hari, Guru and Vaiṣṇavas.
Your lowly servant,
Vidvān Gaurāṅga dāsa
Victory Flag Publications, Māyāpur