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By the grace of our spiritual master, our lives have become factually auspicious. The unsurpassable degree of auspiciousness with which our lives have become filled is only scantily perceived and less still remembered by our fallen selves.

Wandering upwards to the higher planetary systems and again down to the lower, we have tasted the false amrta of materialistic life. It is a dancing mirage the witch maya has drawn us into the depths of her desert of illusion, flying as bewildered moths into blazing fire. Superficial, impotent philosophies impelled us after maya's beckoning mirage-to enjoy as lords of this material nature. False family, friendship and society have claimed to serve us; encouraging us (only for a price) to continue to death our quest for the unattainable illusion. This impure motive of lust has polluted our hearts and ignorance has perpetuated our insane pursuit after the mirage of happiness in this barren desert of material life.

It is you alone Srila Prabhupada who can save us, you alone who can remove this ignorance:

Everyone in the material world is trapped, bound by the insurpassable power of maya. Not the greatest scholar, not the strongest man, the wealthiest aristocrat, most beautiful woman, nor most renounced yogi can escape her powerful grip. It is only you, Srila Prabhupada, who can give us the mercy of Lord Krsna, to take us from maya's control.

You are the mercy representation of the Supreme Lord, who has so kindly given to the reluctant unappreciative souls the highest benediction of the knowledge and realization to actually perceive the foolishness of material life. You have delivered us from the nonsense relative world of misery where pain, frustration and anxiety are accepted as pleasure. You have given us a glimpse, a genuine experience of our eternal life with the Supreme Lord, Bhagavan Sri Krsna. Please kindly accept our meager services.

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