Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda,
nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate bhaktivedānta-svāmin iti nāmine
namas te sārasvate deve gaura-vāṇī-pracāriṇe
nirviśeṣa-śūnyavādi-pāścātya-deśa-tāriṇe
For many years I tried to chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. I knew that it was the main pillar of our purification.
I had heard many classes on improving the quality of chanting. I have even given many classes on
the importance of chanting and why perfection of chanting is so important. However, from the
very day of my joining the temple in Berkeley, and later being initiated, the process of chanting
with attention seemed beyond my grasp.
There is always so much service to do. A true Kṛṣṇa conscious day is at least thirty-six hours
long. Everything has to fit in there somewhere. There are devotees monitoring our progress and
accomplishments. “Did you make it to maṅgala-ārati?” “Are all the dishes washed?” “I didn’t see
you in Bhāgavatam class.” “What was your book score?” “How much lakṣmī did you bring in?” On
and on it goes. “We need volunteers for cut-up in the kitchen.”
We know that to follow the rules that you, Śrīla Prabhupāda, laid down is not easy, and there
seem to be something upward of ten thousand of them. After a while we learn which ones we are
measured by, at least by our authorities. Rarely do they ask, “How is your chanting?” Yes, once
every year or six, some leader may ask about our chanting, but all we have to do is mumble an
“OK” or “Pretty good” and that will be that. Luckily, there is no evidence. Heh, heh. No one can
check your chanting. We are safe there. So much rot underneath the floorboards.
The strange thing is that chanting is said to be an indicator of our spiritual health and to count
for 90 percent of our progress. That idea is always there, and that idea kept bumping around in
the back of my mind like a loose pop can in the back of a traveling van.
It is possible to just read Bhāgavatam and think, One day, I will magically develop an attrac-
tion. Or we can joke about how attraction will come in one million births, and actually, that is
pretty soon, when compared to eternity.
I always seemed to be “trying to get through my rounds.” Just trying to get through them. For
me, success was completing my allotted sixteen. The mind never stays still, never!
When I was a young devotee, I told myself that later, when I get some devotional service under
my belt, when I become advanced, I will surely, by that time, be able to chant better. Someday it
will improve. Someday never comes, as the song goes. When you get into your sixties, or worse
yet, your seventies, you start thinking, “When is this magic moment going to happen?” And then
it dawns on you: Unless you make some change in your life, unless you make it happen, it ain’t
gonna happen.
It is an interesting thing that the process of bringing the consciousness to focus on Kṛṣṇa in
His holy name can be so taxing, so laborious. Why should that be? Will it always be that way?
Here, I am speaking for myself. I have no way of knowing what is going on in other devotees’
minds and hearts. Sometimes it feels as if my head will break open with one more mantra. This is
proof positive that I don’t love Kṛṣṇa, not even a little bit. Yet I am engaged in devotional service
and have “to some percentage” been engaging in that service for more than forty years. There
must be some kind of attraction there.
If I increase the quality of my chanting, no one is going to know, no one is going to ask –
except maybe Ādi Puruṣa and Mithuna. Well, there are two on my team. Well, then how in the
blue blazes can japa be upgraded? How can I really chant with more focus?
Here is what I did. Your mileage may vary.
First, I prayed to the Deities that They would help me to chant better. I tried many small strate-
gies that were recommended by other devotees. I found that some of these strategies didn’t work,
at least for me. I believe that perfecting japa is a personal path. What works for one, might not
work for others. Personally, I never sit down while chanting; it never works for me – I am off to
dreamland in moments. My body is too MOI (mode of ignorance). Heck, I have even struggled
to stop nodding while walking at a good clip, what to speak of being a “Lotus Podder.”
I try to find very, very boring places to chant so I won’t be distracted. Turning down the lights
helps me. I took to waking up early to chant, which seems to give me the spacious feeling that I
won’t be invaded by some imperative in the next second.
I tried to work at getting a good start. If the first few rounds are good, it sets the stage for the
entire sixteen. I have disabled all notifications on my cell phone. I heard a class by Ravīndra
Svarūpa Prabhu about how Śrīla Prabhupāda once said that you should just try to hear yourself
sincerely chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa. Somehow, that simple statement meant something to me. It spoke
to me.
Chanting is like riding an ocean wave. It is easy to fall off and, as surfers say, “Eat the bottom.”
Another statement that speaks to me is, “Imagine you are talking to Kṛṣṇa.” Kṛṣṇa is personally
present on your tongue. I am speaking to Him, asking Him to hear my mantras.
I came across the interesting realization that one of the reasons that my mind was so active and
preoccupied during japa is because I am planning some type of “service,” and I hope, then, that
that “service” will make me outstanding in the society of devotees. Like the Supersoul, my false
ego is also my constant companion.
It is fair to say that my japa is way, way better than it used to be. See? See? You can make your
japa better by just wanting, praying, and working at it. Forty wasted years – well, can’t do any-
thing about that now.
In case you are wondering, no tears come to my eyes, or any of that really Haridāsa Ṭhākura
type stuff, but hey, my japa is way, way better than it was. That means a lot to me. Maybe, even,
one day I will become a real devotee or something. I will love Kṛṣṇa even more than pizza.
Imagine!
Your servant,
Candraśekhara Swami
Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda,
nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate bhaktivedānta-svāmin iti nāmine
namas te sārasvate deve gaura-vāṇī-pracāriṇe
nirviśeṣa-śūnyavādi-pāścātya-deśa-tāriṇe
oṁ ajñāna-timirāndhasya jñānāñjana-śalākayā
cakṣur unmīlitaṁ yena tasmai śrī-gurave namaḥ
mūkaṁ karoti vācālaṁ paṅguṁ laṅghayate girim
yat-kṛpā tam ahaṁ vande śrī-guruṁ dīna-tāraṇam
kaler doṣa-nidhe rājann asti hy eko mahān guṇaḥ
kīrtanād eva kṛṣṇasya mukta-saṅgaḥ paraṁ vrajet
My dear king, although Kali-yuga is an ocean of faults, there is still one good quality
about this age: simply by chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra, one can become free
from material bondage and be promoted to the transcendental kingdom.
The chanting of Kṛṣṇa’s holy name, the mahā-mantra, is that bright light that dispels the all-
pervading ignorance (darkness) in this Age of Kali. Śrīla Prabhupāda, you have taken Kṛṣṇa’s
holy name around the globe.
After five thousand years My mantra-upāsaka [worshiper of the holy name] will appear in
this world and spread the chanting of My holy name everywhere. (Lord Kṛṣṇa to Gaṅgā
Devī, Brahma-vaivarta Purāṇa 4.129.50–51)
Even if the sinners reject religion or flee to foreign countries, I will send mor senāpati-
bhakta [My military field commander] to go there and deliver them. (Śrī Caitanya
Mahāprabhu to Nārada Muni, Śrī Caitanya-maṅgala, Sūtra-khaṇḍa, song 12, texts 564–65)
A personality will soon appear in order to preach the teachings of Śrī Caitanya and move
unrestrictedly over the whole world with His message. (Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura,
Sajjana-toṣaṇī, circa 1885)
Taking the teachings of Lord Caitanya and focusing on the essence of bringing the chanting of
the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra, a spiritual revolution is continuing to engulf the lives of millions
of living entities worldwide. Regarding the holy name for your followers, you taught us what was
your most important instruction: “Out of all my instructions to my disciples, my most important
one is to every day chant sixteen rounds of the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra on beads.”
We find innumerable śāstric statements on the supreme glories of the holy name.
nāma-yajño mahāyajñaḥ kalau kalmaṣa-nāśanam
kṛṣṇa-caitanya-prityarthe nāma-yajña-samarpaṇam
The sacrifice of the name is the highest yajña, which destroys the contamination of Kali-
yuga. In order to please Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu, I offer this sacrifice of the
holy name.
There is no vow like chanting the holy name, no knowledge superior to it, no meditation which
comes anywhere near it, and it gives the highest result. No penance is equal to it, and nothing
is as potent or powerful as the holy name. Chanting is the greatest act of piety and the supreme
refuge. Even the words of the Vedas do not possess sufficient power to describe its magnitude.
Chanting is the highest path to liberation, peace, and eternal life. It’s the pinnacle of devotion,
the heart’s joyous proclivity and attraction, and the best form of remembrance of the Supreme
Lord. The holy name has appeared solely for the benefit of the living entities as their lord and
master, their supreme worshipful object, and their spiritual guide and mentor. Whoever continu-
ously chants Lord Kṛṣṇa’s holy name, even in his sleep, can easily realize that the name is a direct
manifestation of Kṛṣṇa Himself, in spite of the influences of Kali-yuga.
There is no knowledge as pure as the name; there is no vow as powerful as the name.
There is no meditation more effective than the name, nor is there any fruit greater than
that attained by the name. There is no greater renunciation than the name; there is no
greater peace than the name. In this world there is no greater pious activity than taking
the name, nor is there any quicker progress than in the name. The name is the highest
liberation, the highest freedom, the highest destination, the highest peace, the point of
no more searching. The name is the highest devotion, the name is the purest inclination
of the jīva, the name is the highest love, and direct remembrance of the Lord. The name
is the cause of all causes, the Supreme Lord, most worshipable, and is a form of guru to
bring one to the Lord. (Spoken by Śrīla Haridāsa Ṭhākura, excerpted from Śrīla Bhakti-
vinoda Ṭhākura’s Harināma Cintāmaṇi)
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.33.7 states:
aho bata svapāco ’to gariyān
yaj-jihvāgre vartate nāma tubhyam
tepus tapas te juhuvuḥ sasnur āryā
brahmānūcur nāma gṛṇanti ye te
“Oh, how glorious are they whose tongues are chanting Your holy name! Even if born in the
families of dog-eaters, such persons are worshipable. Persons who chant the holy name of Your
Lordship must have executed all kinds of austerities and fire sacrifices and achieved all the good
manners of the Āryans. To be chanting the holy name of Your Lordship, they must have bathed at
holy places of pilgrimage, studied the Vedas, and fulfilled everything required.”
In the Kali-sāntarana Upaniṣad Lord Brahmā says:
hare kṛṣṇa hare kṛṣṇa kṛṣṇa kṛṣṇa hare hare
hare rāma hare rāma rāma rāma hare hare
iti ṣoḍaśakam nāmnām kali-kalmaṣa-nāśanam
parataropāyah sarva-vedesu dṛśyate
“After searching through all the Vedic literature, one cannot find a method of religion more sub-
lime for this age than the chanting of Hare Kṛṣṇa.”
Śrīla Prabhupāda, you have ignited a spiritual revolution of devotion to the Supreme Lord,
and these holy names of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are driving that fire of devotion to all corners of the
globe. We are hearing that people everywhere are accepting this great chanting, becoming happy,
and are deriving freedom from material suffering.
enechi auṣadhi māyā nāśibāra lāgi’
hari-nāma-mahā-mantra lao tumi magi’
Śrīla Prabhupāda, you have brought that medicine of Kṛṣṇa’s holy name that is awakening all the
sleeping living entities who are asleep in the lap of ignorance of who they are and the actual goal
of life.
Falling at your lotus feet, begging to develop the strong desire to chant more and more and to
spread this mercy for the benefit of the suffering living entities.
Your happy servant,
Candramauli Swami
Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda!
Please accept my humble obeisances!
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.20.17 states (as quoted in the purport to Bhāgavatam 4.23.28):
nṛ-deham ādyaṁ sulabhaṁ sudurlabhaṁ
plavaṁ sukalpaṁ guru-karṇadhāram
mayānukūlena nabhasvateritaṁ
pumān bhavābdhiṁ na taret sa ātma-hā
When one wants to cross a large ocean, he requires a strong boat. It is said that this
human form of life is a good boat by which one can cross the ocean of nescience. In the
human form of life one can obtain the guidance of a good navigator, the spiritual master.
One also gets a favorable wind by the mercy of Kṛṣṇa, and that wind is the instructions
of Kṛṣṇa. The human body is the boat, the instructions of Lord Kṛṣṇa are the favorable
winds, and the spiritual master is the navigator. The spiritual master knows well how to
adjust the sails to catch the winds favorably and steer the boat to its destination. If, how-
ever, one does not take advantage of this opportunity, one wastes the human form of life.
Wasting time and life in this way is the same as committing suicide.
In 2020, when there was a lockdown, we organized an online reading group and have now read
all of your books over these two and a half years. We are now reading your books for a second
time. Many devotees from this group had been thinking that they would not be able to read all of
your books in their lifetime. It’s much easier to read your books together! Also, after reading, the
book distributors shared their stories, and many devotees in this group became inspired and now
also distribute books!
Devotees in Russia are making a big effort to distribute books in a more organized way – we
are actively participating in the Bhadra Pūrṇimā campaign and making an educational program
for saṅkīrtana leaders. We made a list of all the book distributors in Russia – we have seven hun-
dred of them – and are trying to help them in any way possible. On this most auspicious day, I
want to ask for your blessings to continue this effort for your satisfaction!
The servant of your servants,
Bhakti Ratnakar Ambarish Swami
Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to you!
It is an uplifting and extraordinary blessing to write an offering for Vyāsa-pūjā. This sacred
occasion grants us the opportunity to express our profound gratitude and glorify Kṛṣṇa’s pure
devotee.
We are unimaginably fortunate to have the privilege of reading your wondrous, love-filled
books. No less precious is the treasure of your countless audio and video recordings. Your biogra-
phy is an unparalleled gift, vividly portraying every chapter of your life – your meeting with your
spiritual master, your selfless preaching in India, your preparations for the voyage to America,
your dedication to writing and publishing books, and even personally distributing Back to God-
head magazine. How sublime and transcendental was that time when your first disciples began to
join you in America!
Please allow me to share with you a brief account of our preaching mission over the past year, a
humble offering from the devotees to you, our spiritual master, and to Lord Caitanya.
Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda, one of the most vital aspects of your mission was to give the holy
name to as many people as possible and to engage them in chanting it. Your disciple, Śivarāma
Swami Mahārāja, who so mercifully guides us in understanding your transcendental desires, has
instructed us to hold a monthly holy name festival in Budapest. Over the past year, we have orga-
nized this event each month under the name Kirtan Fest. The halls have always been filled with
guests, all joyfully chanting, dancing in dynamic kīrtana, listening to lectures, and finally, honor-
ing delicious prasādam.
Following in the footsteps of your lotus feet, Śyāma Lāl Prabhu goes out to the streets five
times a week, chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra for four to five hours – 90 percent of the time
he does this alone, relying solely on the power of the holy name.
When you chanted in the park in New York, your aim was not merely to spread the holy name
but also to inspire young Americans to become practicing devotees. And you were remarkably
successful. As you yourself recounted, this was possible because you earnestly endeavored to
follow your beloved spiritual master. The Budapest devotees are striving to learn from you in
the same way. Thus, one of Śivarāma Swami Mahārāja’s key instructions is to encourage young
people to move into the temple. To this end, we have established an entire program operating
three to four days a week. Our small downtown preaching center is surrounded by universities,
offering young people the opportunity to come for lunch, honor prasādam, participate in kīrtana,
and listen to spiritual discourses. By the mercy of our spiritual master and by sincerely striving to
follow your perfect example, five new devotees moved into the temple ashram last year.
For you, the most essential aspect of the saṅkīrtana mission has always been book distribution.
In this as well, your beloved disciple Śivarāma Swami Mahārāja has guided us, emphasizing that
when devotees distribute Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam sets on the streets, we can truly satisfy your lotus
feet.
At the beginning of 2024, many thought this mission was impossible. Yet the intense desire to
please your representative – and thereby please you, dear Śrīla Prabhupāda – helped us build this
wonderful saṅkīrtana mission step by step.
During last year’s Prabhupāda marathon, the devotees achieved remarkable results. Many
devotees distributed three, four, five, or sometimes even seven Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam sets per day.
As an offering for the 2024 marathon, the devotees distributed a total of 152 Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
sets.
Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda, with deepest gratitude, we humbly thank you for saving the entire
world!
Your insignificant servant,
Bhaktipāda Goswami
* Secretary’s letter, August 10, 1977.
Most dear, revered Śrīla Prabhupāda,
nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate bhaktivedānta-svāmin iti nāmine
namas te sārasvate deve gaura-vāṇī-pracāriṇe
nirviśeṣa-śūnyavādi-pāścātya-deśa-tāriṇe
Fifty years ago, on Janmāṣṭamī, you formally accepted me as your disciple. I have made many mis-
takes in my life, but taking shelter at your lotus feet was one thing I did right for sure. Everything
else I did before that was all a mistake, one after another. Even after formally coming to your
shelter, I continue to make mistakes, moment after moment, by not fully applying myself to your
instructions.
But you already know of my weaknesses and struggles, and you like to hear good news, so I
hope you will be pleased to know that in the last year I published The Mood and Mission of Śrīla
Prabhupāda, which I hope will be a significant contribution to your mission, now and into the
future. I also partook in the installation of splendorously beautiful Śrī Gaura Rādhā-Vallabha
in your temple in Bhopal, run by my disciples, in a ceremony expertly conducted by members
of the ISKCON Deity Worship Ministry. I also completed, in 670 lectures, a series of talks on
Viṣṇu-sahasra-nāma. Even though my recorded lectures are deliberately nonpopulistic and aim to
transparently convey the message you gave “as it is,” they are reaching an ever-increasing audience
of mostly serious listeners.
I can be sure that the farm projects and book distribution I oversee are pleasing to you,
because you repeatedly stressed the importance of these programs.
Construction of a magnificent stone temple in Salem, Tamil Nadu, is nearing completion, and
we envision opening it next year, if Kṛṣṇa permits. Already a community of around one hundred
families live close by.
My disciples are heading three saṅkīrtana padayātrās: in Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, and a tribal area
of Maharashtra.
I pray these endeavors may bring you some satisfaction.
On behalf of the devotees who are working hard to push these programs, I offer you these
efforts, in a mood of grateful service, as contributions within the worldwide propagation of Kṛṣṇa
consciousness that you inaugurated.
The previous year has seen more ups and downs in my life and in projects I oversee in your ser-
vice; some progress amid inevitable struggles and challenges, all on the background of my peren-
nial anxiety about the ongoing state of your movement.
Śrīla Prabhupāda, in your personal presence, your followers were united and animated by your
prediction that the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement would save the world in its darkest hour. The
world has become unimaginably darker since then, but your books, instructions, movement, and
vision can still save it.
In my Vyāsa-pūjā offering to you last year, I quoted:
Book distribution and farms: these are our solid programs. They can change the whole
world. The whole foundation of animal civilization can be destroyed.*
If these farms become successful then the whole world will be enveloped by Kṛṣṇa
consciousness.*
I then stated: “If we, your followers, take these words to heart (guru-mukha-padma-vākya, cittete
kariyā aikya, āra nā kariha mane āśā), the world will change, people will experience the benefits of
your wisdom, and automatically, rightfully, the whole world will glorify you.”
Your books and instructions are still there, but your movement is not very united, and its
members have largely forgotten your vision for saving the world. Book distribution is going on,
but I am distraught, considering how much more we as a movement could have done had we not
jettisoned your instructions regarding farms and varṇāśrama-dharma. We could have been a major
world force in alternative living, with thousands, if not millions, on your farms. At least we could
have saved so many good souls who came to Kṛṣṇa consciousness but then left or severely slack-
ened their practices because we have no arrangement for them to live a decent family life.
But it can still be done. I am simply praying that The Mood and Mission of Śrīla Prabhupāda can
be instrumental in waking up your followers to the legacy you bequeathed them and their respon-
sibility to fulfill it. That would be the most important service I have offered you so far.
May my words and actions ever be faithful and pleasing to you.
Aspiring to eternally remain,
Your servant,
Bhakti Vikāsa Swami
* TKG’s Diary, August 9, 1977.
Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda,
Please accept my respectful obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet. All glories to Your Divine
Grace and your unimaginably fabulous contributions to conditioned souls of this world, for their
true welfare and progress, for all times to come.
While I write this, wars and terrorism are tearing through several places in the world and also
looming over India and its belligerent neighboring nations. School kids below ten years of age
are becoming drug addicts and shocking their parents and society, right here in Kerala. Watch-
ing the world go through various challenges from the social, political, and religious angles, it’s
becoming increasingly clear that the solutions in your books, lectures, and conversations are the
only way to go – they are the most practical and sustainable model. But many don’t like to hear
this, as they lump us in as religious dogmatic and fanatic blind followers who have no place in the
world of free speech and rational seekers of the truth. Kṛṣṇa consciousness is far from being only
a religion, especially in terms of the definition of religion evolved within the history of the Western
world of aggressive evangelism and colonization of the world, using religion as a mere tool. You
presented it in such a unique fashion.
Śrīla Prabhupāda, in one of my Q&A sessions at a program, I was challenged about faith-based
Kṛṣṇa consciousness pitted against reason-based rationality and modern science. I realized while
I answered that it’s only Kṛṣṇa consciousness that has a wholistic, all-round, solution to all ques-
tions of humanity on life, living and the truth, well connected, conscious, personal, relational
and pulsating with reality. Other philosophers and scientists have flashes or patches of a solution,
which remain in waiting for someone to connect the dots, and make sense of the whole picture.
Your bold proposition to the whole world of thinkers, leaders and the like about leadership and
governance based on a Kṛṣṇa Conscious solution is no ordinary relative alternative, but the abso-
lute truth applied successfully in the world of relativities.
Śrīla Prabhupāda, as the world plunges forward, lead by such personalities, there is increased
challenges to our presentation of Kṛṣṇa Consciousness and we need to hone and tweak our
outreach detail, often, without affecting the principles you taught us. These moments create dif-
ferences among devotees due to different perceptions according to cultures of the land and the
individuals themselves. There is a tussle between recognising a principle and a detail. There is
thus groupism and rifts. All are sincere souls eager to serve you and expand your mission, but it
is painful to see these differences leading to misunderstandings. But then you also told us not to
expect utopia and consider personalities who are independently thoughtful. That sure needs a lot
of spiritual maturity, Śrīla Prabhupāda, and you were full of it.
Śrīla Prabhupāda, you are an advanced visionary who told us that you have set principles for
the next 10,000 years in your books. You also told us to read it again and again when we do not
understand, and we will then be able to understand soon. I wish and pray to you that you bless all
your sincere followers with the understanding most relevant for the times from your books, so we
can go forward in the true spirit of saṅkīrtana, tolerating, chanting carefully and serving with the
best of intentions.
Devotees at ISKCON West Tamil Nadu and Kerala are endeavoring to satisfy you through
book distribution, outreach, festivals, projects, etc. I pray for your mercy on all of them, for their
sincere following of your instructions and endeavoring to expand your mission against all odds.
At Coimbatore a massive ambitious project of nearly 200,000 square feet is getting ready albeit
slowly. Many devotees have put their shoulder to the wheel of the project, making sacrifices and
enduring austerities to see this offering for Your Divine Grace become a reality.
At Guruvayur, Kerala, we have battled court cases for many years and have now cleared the
air for a very interesting project to trumpet the mission of Lord Caitanya amidst followers of
Śaṅkarācārya, communists and a highly literate and intelligent populace.
There are other projects in several places being carried out by sincere devotees to expand your
mission of Lord Caitanya’s teachings and messages.
Almost all of your books have been published under the Kerala BBT and are being actively dis-
tributed, making their way into the libraries of the best of institutions and homes, as well as given
to scholars and thought leaders. The influence is ground breaking.
I humbly beg of your Divine Grace’s blessings on all these devotees and the projects for a suc-
cessful completion and expansion of your mission in these areas of my responsibility.
I have increasingly understood from the Bhaktivedanta purports that the Kṛṣṇa consciousness
movement bears the most important message for humanity for all times to come and there is an
urgent need to propagate this message all over the world. You have championed this cause and
have shown us the way. May we never deviate and continue to enthusiastically contribute to your
mission and thus help you save conditioned souls from their miserable plight.
Oṁ tat sat. Begging again at your lotus feet, Śrīla Prabhupāda, for your divine grace.
Your lowly servant,
Bhakti Vinoda Swami
