Aravinda Dāsa

Most beloved Srila Prabhupada,

Please accept my most inadequate obeisances at Your lotus feet on this blessed occasion. Today especially I am thinking how merciful You that from Your lotus feet there is springing forth a great river of mercy which is over flooding the entire universe. You are inviting all the sentient beings to dive in and flow with its current as it enters the nectarean ocean of loving exchange at the lotus feet of Sri Sri Radha Govinda. One tide has come, causelessly, and swept me away. Now I am your most unworthy servant, eternally.

Your mercy is there, boundless, for everyone if they just flow with the tide of submissive loving service to You. But there are those of us who are so foolish that we are paddling against the waves or else somehow trying to grab hold of the shore. I am one such rascal. I am desiring to do all kinds of nonsense, but the flow is overwhelming and the rocklike covering shielding my heart is being worn away just as the flow of the river wears away the bank. Srila Prabhupada, You are forcing me to become Krsna conscious. I am eternally grateful. Please let me love You and serve You forever.

Aravinda Dasa

(ISKCON Boston)