ISKCON—Detroit
ISKCON-Detroit
Our Dearmost Srila Prabhupada,
Please accept our wretched yet heartfelt danḍavats at your lotus feet.
Srila Bhaktivinode Thakur once acclaimed that a great prophet-acarya would come and spread this essential life-giving movement around the world. So you have come with a song for Krsna in your heart and mercifully giving us the instruction, "Chant Hare Krsna!" Now everyone is singing and dancing and relishing real pleasure, so distant from the singing and dancing of the maya witch. We have seen how one philosopher recently predicted that in ten years this Hare Krsna would spread around the world to a majority of people. All this comes about by your mercy.
Before you came our collective karma was as the sewage in the gutter but still you have placed your lotus feet in the mire of our hearts, out of great compassion. Your feet are properly compared to the sun.
"The sun's great heat can purify
A sewer's stale and rotten place.
Your lotus feet will rectify…
An impure heart comes clean and chaste."
A sewer's stale and rotten place.
Your lotus feet will rectify…
An impure heart comes clean and chaste."
May we eternally bow our heads at your lotus feet and thankfully bathe in the glory there of devotional service to Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. As a family of real love and trust we remain,
Your fallen servants,
ISKCON Detroit
ISKCON Detroit
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The Shelter of the Mind
O mind seek the shelter of your guru,
Mind! Bow down to the one who comforts you.
Serve Him with devotion, cherish His blessing
For Krsna's lotus feet in His heart He's caressing.
Mind! Bow down to the one who comforts you.
Serve Him with devotion, cherish His blessing
For Krsna's lotus feet in His heart He's caressing.
He is thy father, thy master, thy friend;
Bow down at His feet, O mind, go again,
To your natural place, unknown to you now;
Press thyself to his feet and bow, O mind, bow!
Bow down at His feet, O mind, go again,
To your natural place, unknown to you now;
Press thyself to his feet and bow, O mind, bow!
His infinite love you do not comprehend.
You bathe in the stench of your thoughts which offend,
Yet he has tolerance and a compassionate Nature;
So bow, mind, to the one God sent as your saviour.
You bathe in the stench of your thoughts which offend,
Yet he has tolerance and a compassionate Nature;
So bow, mind, to the one God sent as your saviour.
Do not pick up some quarrel, be not, O mind, mean.
Lower than the dusty road's grass, thy self, O mind, deem.
Look not to exploit for your own worthless gain;
Bathe fully, O mind, in the rasa of the Name.
Lower than the dusty road's grass, thy self, O mind, deem.
Look not to exploit for your own worthless gain;
Bathe fully, O mind, in the rasa of the Name.
O Mind, you have not one quality of a humble sadhu.
Your diabolical propensities you continuously prove.
Why wander the wasteland of wanton despair?
O mind for his shelter do not you have care?
Your diabolical propensities you continuously prove.
Why wander the wasteland of wanton despair?
O mind for his shelter do not you have care?
O mind, thou are bondage and the cause of my fall.
On Prabhupada's mercy you have failed to call.
I chained unto you-what more horrible fate!
O mind, call out for your guru before it's too late!
On Prabhupada's mercy you have failed to call.
I chained unto you-what more horrible fate!
O mind, call out for your guru before it's too late!
All glories to our Spiritual Master Srila Prabhupada!
All glories to Sri Guru and Gourahga!
All glories to the Shelter of Lord Krsna's holy name!
All glories to Sri Guru and Gourahga!
All glories to the Shelter of Lord Krsna's holy name!
ISKCON Detroit
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