Cleveland

CLEVELAND

Dear Srila Prabhupada,

Please accept my most humble obeisances at your lotus feet.

nama om visnu-padaya krsna-presthaya bhu-tale
srimate bhaktivedanta-svamin iti namine

namas te sarasvate deve gaura-vani-pracarine
nirvisesa-sunyavadi-pasatya-desa-tarine

Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, who is glorified as the most munificent and merciful of all incarnations, has stated in His Siksastaka the feelings of love between the devotee and Krsna. The sincere disciple absorbed in service to a Bhagavad-gita spiritual master experiences the same feelings. A similar emotion is expressed in this material world when a mother finds that her son desires to leave home.

"O Govinda! Feeling Your separation, I am considering a moment to be like twelve years or more. Tears are flowing from my eyes like torrents of rain, and I am feeling all vacant in the world in Your absence.

"O son of Maharaja Nanda [Krsna], I am Your eternal servitor, yet somehow or other I have fallen into the ocean of birth and death. Please pick me up from this ocean of death and place me as one of the atoms of Your lotus feet.

"I know no one but Krsna as my Lord, and He shall remain so even if He handles me roughly in His embrace or makes me brokenhearted by not being present before me. He is completely free to do anything and everything, for He is always my worshipful Lord unconditionally."

Here in Cleveland we are not so scholarly or expert in ritualistic activities which are mentioned in the Vedas, nor can we deliver poetic stanzas, but I'm certain the devotees feel a tiny speck of affection for you, and would like in a humble way to repay you for your causeless mercy.

We can do this simply by following your instructions, cooperating with one another, with the GBC and so on, and in this way always feel your presence.

Thank you very much, Srila Prabhupada, for all that you are doing.

Your servants,

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