Rudra and Rādhikā

My dear Srila Prabhupada, my beautiful spiritual master,

I beg to offer my respectful obeisances at your sweet lotus feet. What can I say or do? Everything that I say or do is contaminated with the dust and dirt of material existence accumulated since time immemorial. If someone were to remain unbathed even for a month, the smell of such a person would be intolerable, and yet Your Divine Grace is allowing this fallen soul who has not bathed for eternity to be Your disciple. I cannot understand.

Dear Srila Prabhupada, my association for this birth has been most low. All I learned from my parent, friends, etc., was, "Your are God. Enjoy, enjoy." From birth I was raised like a cat and dog, so here I stand, a finished product in a human body with the consciousness of an animal. I have no qualification, I have no understanding of anything you are doing or saying, Srila Prabhupada. But just as a wild animal is sometimes seen to take shelter of a kind animal trainer, so this lowly person, sensing Your unending kindness, is praying that he may take shelter at Your lotus feet.

As husband and wife we are praying to Krsna to give us the strength to become Your servants. We are praying that we may raise children to the chanting of Hare Krsna. To hear Bhagavad-gita, Srimad-Bhagavatam to take prasadam, and dance in bliss. To raise children not like we were raised as cats and dogs, but raised to understand from birth that-aham brahmasmi-all are eternal servants of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Sri Krsna.

I am offering my repeated obeisances at Your sweet lotus feet, which alone, if You were to place them upon my head, would extinguish forevermore the fire that is blazing in my heart. In my mind I am keeping this small hope, for without Your causeless mercy, never, never, never, never, will the holy name be revealed to me.

We offer our respectful obeisances and insignificant services to Your Divine person, who is the unending ocean of everything that is nice in its purest form. Truthfulness, love, kindness, mercy, leadership, simplicity, courage, unbelievable tolerance-Srila Prabhupada, Your loving qualities are as unending as the eternal abode of the Lord.

Your most unworthy servants,

Rudra and Radhika

(ISKCON Chicago)