My Dear Guru Maharaja,
Please accept my respectful obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to the dust of Your lotus feet.
Nama om visnu-padaya Krsna-presthaya bhu-tale
Srimate Jayapataka-Svamin iti namine
Nama acaryapadaya Nitai-krpa-pradayine
Gaura-katha-dhama-daya nagara-grama-tarine
The secret of surrendering to Krishna is that such surrendered devotee sees that everything is part of Krishna's plan. Whatever is meant to be I am doing. Let me do it with my full attention to every detail. Let me become absorbed in such service, never mind what it is. Let all other considerations be forgotten and only my desire to do the thing best for Krishna's alone pleasure is my motive."
Srila Prabhupada´s Letter to Jayapataka - December 19, 1972
The moment I read the above quote of Srila Prabhupada I felt great inspiration and hope, and I felt an even greater happiness upon realizing that he wrote it as an instruction to you.
Thinking of you and your mood, I can understand that you are the embodiment of such instruction. Everything you do, as simple as it may be, you do it with full heart and dedication. I was always amazed to see you while choosing names for your disciples; how you would consider their own traits and personality and chose each of them in profound spiritual meditation.
I also remember the expert way you would catch souls for Krishna. Once you were talking to a girl new in Mayapur, you asked her for her email, she gave it you and you both kept talking. At the end, you told her, “I sent you a message”. I was in wonder as I didn’t understand how you did that while talking to her with full attention.
By the Lord’s mercy and your mercy there is so much I could say about you; both awake and in my dreams, you keep being the source of enlightenment and faith in my life.
Today, the most auspicious day of your Divine appearance, I pray to you, please bless me to live by this secret of surrender to Krishna, and surrender to your lotus feet.
Your menial servant and daughter,
Madhuri Yamuna dd