ISKCON—New Orleans

Dear Srila Prabhupada,

We beg to prostrate ourselves at Your Divine Grace's lotus feet in humble acknowledgement of Your Divine Grace's infinite causeless mercy upon us fallen conditioned souls. We do accept and ascertain that Your Divine Grace is truly the bona fide spiritual master, a pure Vaisnava representing Sri Krsna, the Supreme Absolute Truth.

We offer appreciation of Your Divine Grace's protection for his devotees; as much as the lotus blossom is untouched by water even while surrounded by a lake, so when we are on sahkirtana, by Your Divine Grace's protection, we are unaffected by the material whirlpool.

We offer appreciations for Your Divine Grace's allowing us to assist in Your Divine Grace's service to Krsna. Your Divine Grace is giving us devotional service, accepting it, authorizing it, making it potent. This devotional service, is clearly mercy only.

We offer appreciations to Your Divine Grace's benediction of the privilege to live in a Krsna conscious temple, which Your Divine Grace has made a bubble of Vaikuntha within this world simply by Your Divine Grace's presence.

We offer appreciations to Your Divine Grace for making available Krsna's mercy, prasadam, which cools the fire of our impure senses.

We offer appreciations for Your Divine Grace's acceptance of us as spiritual infants under Your Divine Grace's sheltering wing; by Your Divine Grace's causeless mercy we are eternal children of the eternal father, the spiritual master, who guides and instructs so patiently, just waiting for us to mature.

We offer appreciations to Your Divine Grace for allowing us to preach Krsna consciousness, for empowering us to deliver transcendental knowledge and the Hare Krsna mantra to everyone. We do not deserve such an elevated position, but still Your Divine Grace has such mercy on us; there is no other explanation to this mercy than causeless.

Each of us has found that the entire system of material activities is a constant source of perplexity and misery, and now Your Divine Grace has made available the mercy of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu as the Hare Krsna mantra, potent only due to Your Divine Grace's authorization. We humbly attempt to express some gratitude for this, even though we have no real feeling of gratitude.

We offer appreciations for Your Divine Grace's filling our restless, barren minds with a river of nectar which flows from Your Divine Grace's lips as Krsna I & II, Nectar of Devotion, Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Sri Īsopanisad, Bhagavad-gita, Srimad-Bhagavatam, etc.

We cannot express nearly enough gratitude to account for Your Divine Grace's mercy. Please just keep us in Your Divine Grace's flock-we offer ourselves for Your Divine Grace's use and manipulation. We are servants to the spiritual master by Your Divine Grace's mercy; please allow us to serve Your Divine Grace eternally and be instruments in the execution of Your Divine Grace's will.

ISKCON-New Orleans