Rūpānuga dāsa, GBC, Mid-Eastern U.S., Canada, Trustee, Bhaktivedanta Institute

Rūpanuga dasa, GBC, Mid-Eastern U.S., Canada,
Trustee, Bhaktivedanta Institute
In 1942, Columbus sailed into the Atlantic, competing with other explorers to discover the easiest way to India, the land of wonderful spices, silks, tapestries, jewels, gold and silver. The feudal lords and barons of Europe wanted to add more taste to their venison. They desired finer fabrics, diamonds and emeralds to decorate their ladies. They required richer woven drapes for their dullish castle walls and precious metals to increase their wealth and power. Columbus landed at the Bahama Islands off the coast of Florida and, thinking that he had found India, called the natives "Indians." He was in the vanguard of the many foolish men from the Western countries who have approached India for materialistic, external reasons. They never found the real treasure of India, hidden until Your Divine Grace revealed the complete science of Krsna consciousness in your books.
The British were supposedly able administrators, but they never cared for the real opulence, the storehouse of love of God. They were determined to "civilize" the subcontinent, in their illusion not seeing the Vedic culture but only confusing the mud and thatched huts of Bengal with those of tribal Africa. Yet, a few centuries before the British rule, Lord Caitanya and Prabhu Nityananda danced in those simple huts at Mayapur, in the company of the greatest Vaisnava saints, relishing the topmost internal pastimes of Radha-Krsna. And these truths would still be secret if it wasn't for the books of Your Divine Grace.
In 1492, Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu was enjoying the pastimes of His pauganḍa age, during which His chief occupation was to engage Himself in study. Meanwhile, Columbus sailed into the womb of oblivion.
Today, while Western sceptics continue to flirt with Mayavadi catastrophe, and hover over India's external features-the so-called poverty, "over-population," the caste system" and underdeveloped technology-Your Divine Grace proceeds to methodically conquer the culture of the Western world, without firing a shot, simply by distributing your books.
Those concerned with external history say this is the year 1977, but historians will know it as the year 491, Caitanya Era, the Age of the Hare Krsna Movement. Personally, I have no legitimate expectation of going back to Godhead, but I can only pray to remain in this Movement birth after birth for the next 9,500 years. I beg to remain your ISKCON man.
Your most fallen disciple,
Rūpanuga dasa, GBC
Mid-Eastern U.S., Canada
Trustee, Bhaktivedanta Institute
 

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