Rome

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

Dear Srila Prabhupada,

Narottama dasa Thakura says that the spiritual master is karuna-sindhu, an ocean of mercy. You are an unlimited ocean of mercy, and there is no person more glorious than you in all the three worlds. Out of compassion you have come into this world of fallen souls to bring us back to Godhead, although we don't have any qualities. Just as the sun can extract water even from stool and transform it into pure drops of rain, you extracted us from our stoollike lives full of sinful activities and impersonalism and elevated us to a position enviable even by the demigods. It is said that even great devas desire to take birth as devotees in this movement, and you, with your mercy, have transformed such fallen souls like us into devotees.

Gurudeva! As the sunlight is more potent when it goes through a lens, in the same way Krsna's mercy is greater when it goes through you. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is glorified because He saved Jagai and Madhai, whose activities were just like childish pranks in comparison with our abominable sins. Caitanya Mahaprabhu has saved with His mercy Jagai and Madhai, but that same mercy, filtered through you, has increased millions of times, therefore you are now saving hundreds of thousands of Jagais and Madhais.

In Krsna Book there is a description of autumn in which it explains how the earth becomes luxuriant after the rainy season. Likewise, the devotees, after joining the Krsna consciousness movement, become bright and look like they're coming directly from Vaikuntha. But just like the earth becomes dry during the summer season, we also become dry and lose our qualities if we forget your instruction, because these qualities are not ours but are only a reflection of some of your unlimited qualities.

yogyata-vicare, kichu nahi pai,
tomara karuna-sara
karuna na hoile, kahdiya kahdiya,
prana na rakhibo ara

Gurudeva! As the lotus flower grows in the mud but is never touched by it, you stay in the mud of this material world but you are never contaminated. Your lotus eyes see always Krsna, your lotus lips chant always Krsna's glories, your lotus hands are always engaged in Krsna's service, your lotus feet dance always for the Lord, and your lotus mind is always fixed on the Lord. When Krsna plays His flute, the waves of the Yamuna carry lotus flowers to His feet. In the same way, your mind always brings thoughts of love to Krsna.

ohe! vaisnava thakura, doyara sagara,
e dase karuna kori'
diya pada-chaya, sodho he amaya,
tomara carana dhori

Srila Prabhupada, our only hope is to get hold of your lotus feet; we cannot do anything else but pray to always have your mercy and be able to follow in your footsteps. Maya's attacks are so strong that we can fall down any day. Gurudeva, give us a drop of your mercy so that we can resist maya's attacks. Make our ears constantly full of your instructions and inundated with Krsna's pastimes so that they will not be attracted by the whispers of maya. Please, enter into our rebellious minds and make them full of thoughts about Krsna so that they will not be attracted by the waves of desires. Impress your holy image in our eyes so that they will not be attracted by maya's winkings. Give us the strength to engage our hands in chanting the japa-mala that you have given us and in performing devotional activities, otherwise these hands will be engaged in caressing maya. Give us the enthusiasm so that our legs will be always engaged in dancing in front of the Deities (which are manifested due to your mercy) and for running from one person to another in order to distribute your books so that our legs will not be engaged in running after maya. Give us a drop of your mercy so that our tongue can really taste the transcendental sound of the maha-mantra and the nectarean flavor of prasada. In this way we will lose the desire to taste the garbage of the material world. Give us the strength to engage all our energies in distributing your books. By doing this we will not waste our energies foolishly in sense gratification.

namnam akari bahudha nija-sarva-saktis
tatrarpita niyamitaḥ smarane na kalaḥ
etadrsi tava krpa bhagavan mamapi
durdaivam idrsam ihajani nanuragaḥ
Cc. Antya 20.16

"O my Lord, Your holy name alone can render all benediction to living beings, and thus You have hundreds and millions of names, like Krsna and Govinda. In these transcendental names You have invested all Your transcendental energies. There are not even hard and fast rules for chanting these names. O my Lord, out of kindness You enable us to easily approach You by Your holy names, but I am so unfortunate that I have no attraction for them."

You are always deeply absorbed in tasting the ecstasy of chanting the glories of Lord Caitanya, so we just pray to you to allow us to taste one drop of the ocean of bliss you constantly feel, so that we can keep chanting the holy name Yasyaprasadan na gatiḥ kuto 'pi: without your blessing we are completely lost and helpless. Without you we would still go here and there barking like dogs searching for some illusory, ephemeral pleasure: we would still be in the stool like hogs, thinking ourselves happy.

Gurudeva! Without your presence the three worlds would be completely empty. We invoke your merciful glance upon us: please give us the strength to follow you and to push on this Sahkirtana movement.

Gurudeva! We have no words to describe your glories. Srila Prabhupada, the more we serve you, the more we realize your greatness and also our insignificance.

From Rome, the very same empire of ignorance and vice, your disciples prostrate themselves at your lotus feet, calling for your protection, O emperor of gentleness, king of self-control, austerity, purity, tolerance, honesty, wisdom, knowledge and piety. You are the emperor of the real world of bliss, please help us to get out of this realm of maya.

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