—Brahmananda

No one can claim to have wasted years wandering after such dirty things as I. No one else's mind is so easily attracted by the promise of sense indulgence. No one is as forgetful as I. Yet His Divine Grace has accepted me as a servant. Not even my mother has given me Krishna's Holy Name to always chant. Nor has my father taught me who I am, what the purpose of life is, and who God is. His Divine Grace has enlisted me in the transcendental loving service to Krishna instead of the service to Maya. No one else in the world could have done this. That is a fact. Therefore, I pray to the mercy of Lord Nityananda that I may spend every remaining moment of this life informing everyone I meet that His Divine Grace meets all the requirements stated by scriptures and by great authorities to be the Spiritual Master of every living entity of the universe.

-Brahmananda
(ISKCON-New York)

III/21: "Whatsoever action is performed by a great man, common men will follow in his footsteps. And whatever standards he sets by exemplary acts, all the world pursues."