Please accept my humble obeisences. All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda!
I haven’t had your vapuḥ sevā this year which is regrettable for myself. Hopefully by your mercy I can realize that service to vāṇī is higher. You wrote a wonderful song about if Prabhupāda didn’t come. I want to offer a poem based off of that.
If Śrīla Guru Mahārāja had not come,
what would have happened? How could we have passed our lives?
Who would have distributed the unlimited mercy of Śrīla Prabhupāda all over the world?
Who would have helped Prabhupāda develop Māyāpur?
Who would have transformed the jungle into the spiritual world?
How could the Dham be developed without its heart?
Who would inspire devotees across the world, from Māyāpur to New Pānihāṭi to South America?
Who would show what it looks like to be off the bodily platform?
Who would be there to teach us to cry for the holy name, or at least cry that we can’t cry?
Who would have implemented Bhakti-vṛkṣa congregational preaching?
Who would have us question our mind: “Vaiṣṇava Ke?, what kind of Vaiṣṇava are you?”
Who would have revealed Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura’s presentation of Nityānanda Prabhu’s Nāmahaṭṭa, Godruma Kalpāṭavī?
Where would all the thousands of disciples be?
Where would their shelter be?
Where would Naṭavara Gaurāṅga dāsa have found his spiritual family?
Naṭavara Gaurāṅga dāsa,
New York Harināma Āśrama