Jadurāṇī devi dāsī

Dear Srila Prabhupada,

Please accept my prostrated obeisances at your lotus feet. Your Divine Grace is a messenger from Goloka Vrndavana, and your mission is to attract the conditioned souls to associate with Sri Krsna and His eternal associates. You are yourself not different from Lord Krsna because who but the Lord can deliver His devotees. You are the representative of Balaramaji, the original spiritual master and the source of spiritual strength for all devotees. You are the manifestation of the Lord's infinite mercy, and therefore you are more merciful than the Lord. Thousands of births of penances and austerities cannot liberate one from the whirlpool of material energy but one word from the spiritual master, and the conditioned soul is at once free. As a business firm is bound by the order of its bona fide representative or by his signature on a contract, so Lord Krsna is bound by the words and promises of His bona fide representative. If you accept someone in the service of the Lord, then Krsna must also accept him.

You are always absorbed in the loving affairs of Radha and Krsna, and if we hear from you and follow you instructions then we can also enter into the kingdom of Vrndavana. When you saw the photograph of Kartamasi in your apartment on the Bowery you told me "I like that doll," and "My desire is to be His friend." You are always thinking of Krsna, and He also cannot separate His mind from you. You are one of the Lord's dear friends in Vrndavana, who is sometimes chasing the shadows that the birds make on the ground, sometimes shouting ill names into the well, sometimes imitating the sounds of the animals, sometimes sharing Lord Krsna's laḍḍus and kacoris and sometimes hearing Him tell jokes at lunch.

Because you have accepted Lord Krsna as your friend, you are an ocean of mercy pulling us who are rotting in the kingdom of material energy. As the swan dices deep into the water and grasps only the essence of the water, the milk, so you have forgotten everything material and grasped the essence of everything spiritual, the fearless lotus feet of the son of Nanda. And the nectar which you are always tasting from the feet of the Lord is flowing like a river from your lips in the form of the narration of the glories of His name, fame, form and pastimes. Simply by hearing from you, Srila Prabhupada, can give relief from the fire of material nescience, and simply by following your instructions we can enter into the association of His Lordship Sri Krsna in His eternal abode and receive from Him the special power of bestowing love of God to all living entities.

Jadurani devi dasi

(ISKCON Boston)