ISKCON—Gainesville

Our Dear Srila Prabhupada,

We offer our most respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of our spiritual master, who is a bona fide representative of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Dear Srila Prabhupada, you are worth taking shelter of because you are completely and forever free from all material desires and you are absorbed in the loving service of Radha and Krsna.

You are the topmost expert in all branches of Vedic literature, and you are specially glorified because you are actively preaching the sublime conclusion of all Vedic wisdom, unalloyed devotion unto the Supreme Person, or Krsna consciousness. And because you have personally realized this knowledge by mature experience, your words have boundless transcendental potency, and thus you are able to convince so many others of the real truth, and out of your causeless compassion they also become engaged in the transcendental loving service of the Lord.

You have completely taken shelter of your spiritual master, and thus you are fully endowed with all of the courage and grace of the bona fide spiritual master. With your pure intelligence, you can easily navigate the ship of our devotional service through the stormy waters of Kali, and yet by your causeless mercy, the great boat simultaneously remains at the material shore for all the conditioned souls to get on board, and thus you are delivering so many fallen souls.

We can understand that your mercy is equally offered to everyone and that you are not partial to anyone. Therefore if one appears to be advancing more quickly than another, it is because he is more readily accepting Your Divine Grace. Therefore we humbly beg Your Divine Grace that we may be more serious in our devotional life, and that, just like an intelligent businessman or politician, we take this golden opportunity the first time around. We beg to offer our most humble obeisances at Your lotus feet.

Your eternal servants,
ISKCON-Gainesville