The Most Blessed Event
August 25, 1970
The Appearance Day of Our Beloved Spiritual Master
His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupäda
His Divine Grace Oà Viñëupäda 
Paramahaàsa Parivräjakäcärya Añöottara-çata 
Çré Çrémad A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupäda
Founder-Äcärya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness
Introduction
This book is humbly offered at the lotus feet of our spiritual master, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupäda, who has proven by action and words beyond contemporary comparison that he is in the direct disciplic succession from His Divine Grace Bhaktisiddhänta Sarasvaté Prabhupäda, Çréla Visvanätha Cakraväti Öhakür Prabhupäda, Jéva Gosvämé, Rüpa Gosvämi and Lord Caitanya  Mahäprabhu. We, the unworthy disciples of His Divine Grace Çréla Prabhupäda, wholly accept him as the infallible guide and eternal father, and we do surrender our lives to his service. ISKCON Press has been created exclusively for the publication of Çréla Prabhupäda's writings. The press managers hereby pray to remain instruments of His Divine Grace and to publish Vyäsa Püja offerings in all our repeated births for thousands and thousands of years to come.
Viñëujana Svämé
An Authoritative Appreciation on the Appearance Day of 
His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupäda

All honor and respect are due unto Your Divine Grace, O representative of Çukadeva Gosvämé. "The Supreme Lord is unlimited. Only a very expert personality deserves to understand this knowledge in spiritual values, and that also when retired from the activities of material happiness. Therefore, those who are not so well placed on account of being attached to material qualities may be shown the ways of transcendental realization by Your Goodness by describing the transcendental activities of the Supreme Lord." Çré Kåñëa, Your lotus feet exude a nectar which is kept in the heart of Your pure devotee, Çréla Prabhupäda, who has opened that heart of devotion to the Western world. Let the scholars and rascals claim to know the Unlimited by their limited brains, but for myself I accept Çré Kåñëa's verdict in His Bhagavad-gétä (Chapter 12.6-7): "For one who worships Me, giving up all his activities unto Me, and always being devoted to Me without deviation, engaged in devotional service and always meditating on Me: who has fixed his mind upon Me, O son of Påtha—for him I am the swift deliverer from the ocean of birth and death." Çréla Prabhupäda is the rare one out of many, many thousands, and therefore I take this opportunity to surrender this God-given life of mine with its attributes and deficiencies unto the shelter of the most expert personality His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupäda, my spiritual master. Please don't think that surrender is an empty statement of sentiment. This is condemned in scripture. Nor should you think that the spiritual master is meant for absurd inquiry. No, Çréla Prabhupäda is accepted on the authority of sädhu and çästra. Sädhu means saintly persons who successfully taught Kåñëa consciousness by example in full accordance with the revealed scripture. The saintly personalities who form an unbroken chain of disciplic succession down to Çréla Prabhupäda are herein listed.
1. Kåñëa, 2. Brahmä, 3. Närada, 4. Vyäsa, 5. Madhva. Later came 22. Lord Caitanya and then more recently  29. Bhaktivinode, 30. Gaura Kiçora, 31. Bhaktisiddhänta Sarasvaté, and presently His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupäda. All these saintly äcäryas can be recognized by their display of twenty-six saintly qualities, listed herein. 1. Kind to everyone, 2. Does not quarrel with anyone, 3. Fixed in the Absolute Truth, 4. Equal to everyone, 5. Faultless, 6. Charitable, 7. Mild, 8. Clean, 9. Simple, 10, Benevolent, 11. Peaceful, 12. Completely attached to Kåñëa, 13. Has no material hankerings, 14. Meek, 15. Steady, 16. Self-controlled, 17. Does not eat more than required, 18. Sane, 19. respectful, 20. Humble, 21. Grave, 22. Compassionate, 23. Friendly, 24. Poetic, 25. Expert, 26. Silent.
It would be impossible for anyone to develop all these qualities one by one, but the pure sädhu automatically exhibits all good qualities due to his becoming a pure devotee of the Lord. I have developed no qualities but firm faith that by association with my spiritual master, His orders and words, I must soon be cured of my material affinity.
Sädhu, çästra. Çästra means scripture, specifically the Vedic literature in which the Bhagavad-gétä is contained. The speaker is Lord Çré Kåñëa, who is affirmed in all the Vedas to be the Parabrahman Supreme Personality of Godhead from whom many emanations expand. In Chapter Eighteen, verse 65, Çré Kåñëa states the qualities of one who is surrendered fully: "Always think of Me. Become My devotee. Worship Me, and offer you homage unto Me. The result is that you will come to Me without fail. I promise you this because you are My very dear friend." And in the following verses Çré Kåñëa specifically describes my spiritual master. "For anyone who explains this supreme secret to the devotee, devotional service is guaranteed, and at the end he will come back to Me. There is no servant in the world more dear to Me than he, nor will there ever be one more dear." (Bg. 18.68-69) His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupäda has come to the western world at the age of seventy, enduring tribulations of social red tape and his own health. Still, with total devotion to the order of His Guru Mahäräja, Çréla Prabhupäda has opened His heart to the western world and is thereby overflooding us with His divine example of devotional service. Even before His Divine Grace arrived on the western shore, three volumes of Bhägavatam, the spotless Puräëa, were published by His Divine Grace. What a boundless blessing to the English speaking world. And in just four years Çréla Prabhupäda has translated and published ten full books in which the Personality of Godhead with all transcendental paraphernalia is authoritatively revealed and the means for attaining pure loving devotional service is scientifically presented. Herein is a list: 1. Bhagavad-géta As It Is, 2. Çré Éçopaniñad, 3. Teachings of  Lord Caitanya, 4. The Nectar of Devotion, 5. Kåñëa Book. And these are just a few of the valuable gifts Çréla Prabhupäda is giving to the spiritually poverty-stricken West.
Regarding temples where everyone can see and take an active part in devotional activities, Çréla Prabhupäda has founded branches of the International Society for Kåñëa Consciousness in major cities around the world where the resident students are joyfully and faithfully executing the regulative principles of devotional service imparted by His Divine Grace. Another reading in the Bhagavad-géta, Chapter Nine, verses 13-14, says, "O son of Påtha, those who are not deluded, the great souls, are under the protection of the divine nature. They are fully engaged in devotional service because they know Me as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, original and inexhaustible. They are always engaged in chanting My glories. Endeavoring with great determination, offering homage unto Me, they worship Me with devotion." These verses confirm the order Çréla Prabhupäda to all His students to always chant and hear the glories of the Lord. This order was propounded by Lord Çré Kåñëa Caitanya who prophesized, "In as many towns and villages as there are on earth, this Hare Kåñëa will be chanted and heard." And Çréla Prabhupäda is fulfilling the desire of the Lord by sending His disciples chanting into the teeming masses. Çréla Prabhupäda Himself has recorded numerous songs and record albums which are played worldwide.
No one can deny these facts of Çréla Prabhupäda's activities, nor can anyone refute these verses from scripture which confirm Çréla Prabhupäda's great mission and personality. Nor can anyone be blind to the super-excellent qualifications of the saintly teachers who have imparted these pure teachings. Taking all these facts into consideration, along with the purifying association of Çréla Prabhupäda, which has obviously changed the disgraced lives of myself and hundreds of others into purity, who would be such a fool as not to give praise, and even more, to give one's life in the service of such a spiritual master? His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupäda is the only propounder of Lord Caitanya's holy saìkértana  worldwide congregational chanting. Such an extraordinarily qualified personality as Çréla Prabhupäda must be accepted as the captain of the ship of devotional service which is just suitable for crossing over this difficult ocean of Kali which deteriorates all the good qualities of the human being. And I, Viñëujana Svämé, do offer prostrated obeisances before the holy picture of my beloved spiritual master and pray only for the strength to overcome any hindrances in executing Çréla Prabhupäda's Divine command.
Chant Hare Kåñëa.
Viñëujana Svämé
Brahmänanda Svämé
Vyäsa Püjä Offering on the Most Blessed Advent Day of My Spiritual Master, 
His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupäda, August 25, 1970
nama oà viñëu-pädäya kåñëa-preñöhäya bhü-tale
çrémate bhaktivedänta-svämin iti nämine
namas te särasvate deve gaura-väëé-pracäriëe
nirviçeña-çünyavädi-päçcätya-deça-täriëe
oà ajïäna-timirändhasya jïänäïjana-çaläkayä
cakñur unmélitaà yena tasmai çré-gurave namaù
In the Nectar of Devotion by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupäda it is stated by Çréla Rüpa Gosvämé, one of the primary disciples of Lord Caitanya and a recognized sädhu and authority, that revealed scriptures are any books which give enlightenment in the matter of advancing devotional service. This definition is valid for scriptures followed by all bona fide religions of the world as well as the Vedic scriptures followed by the Kåñëa consciousness movement. In the Vedic literature the conclusion is that all conditioned souls should surrender unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Çré Kåñëa. In the Bhagavad-gétä,  which is the most widely recognized scriptural authority of the Vedic literature, it is stated:
Always think of Me. Become My devotee. Worship Me, and offer you homage unto Me. The result is that you will come to Me without fail. I promise you this because you are My very dear friend.
(Bg. 18.65)
Anyone who wants to follow this invaluable instruction should sincerely ask, "Who is Kåñëa? Where can He be found? How do I surrender to Him?" If sincerity is there, then without a doubt Kåñëa will guide you back to Him. It is Kåñëa's desire that all the conditioned souls struggling hard in the material world return to their constitutional positions of being His eternally conscious part and parcels. A son may leave home and go out into the world to pursue his life independently and may no longer remember his father, but the father is always thinking of his son, where he may be, and what he is doing. Similarly, Kåñëa is always thinking of us and by His kindness in so many ways ever invites us to return from this foreign material world. He come Himself and exhibits transcendental pastimes to attract us and says: 
"One who knows the transcendental nature of My appearance and activities does not, upon leaving this body, take birth again in the material world, but attains my eternal abode." (Bg. 4.9) 
Kåñëa delivers His word in the scriptures such as the Bhagavad-gétä. 
"Anyone who listens with faith and without enviousness becomes free from the sinful reactions and will attain to the planets where the pious dwell." (Bg. 18.71) 
And Kåñëa sends His representative, the authorized spiritual master. As it is confirmed in the Caitanya-caritämåta, guru-kåñëa-kåpäya päya bhakti-lata bija: 
"By the grace of guru one gets Kåñëa, and by the grace of Kåñëa one gets a bona fide guru." [Cc. Madhya 19.151]
The Bhagavad-gétä is meant to bring us to this understanding, that the only way to become Kåñëa conscious is to surrender to His representatives, the spiritual master. All the perplexities of life can be solved if one approaches and surrenders completely to a bona fide spiritual master, who is in the disciplic succession from Lord Kåñëa, because a person with a bona fide spiritual master is supposed to know everything. Arjuna is poised on the battle field of Kurukñetra totally perplexed, but he asks Lord Kåñëa, the supreme spiritual master, to make a definite solution. He offers himself to Kåñëa as a disciple he wants to stop friendly talks. Talks between the master and disciple are serious, and Arjuna wants to talk very seriously before the recognized spiritual master. Kåñëa is therefore the original spiritual master in the science of the Bhagavad-gétä, and Arjuna is the original disciple in understanding the Gita. Arjuna speaks to his spiritual master frankly and with simplicity, without false prestige. "Now I am confused about duty and have lost all composure because of weakness. In this condition I am asking You to tell me clearly what is best for me. 
"Now I am Your disciple and a soul surrendered unto You. Please instruct me." (Bhagavad-gétä 2.7)
Lord Kåñëa is speaking through the Bhagavad-gétä as the Supreme Personality of Godhead and also the original spiritual master. The Lord immediately takes the position of the teacher and instructs Arjuna the science of Kåñëa consciousness. He cautions Arjuna: 
"One who executes his duties according to my injunctions and who follows this teaching faithfully becomes free from the bondage of fruitive actions."(Bg. 3.31) 
Such a qualification is necessary because although anyone can be given spiritual understanding, no matter what his material distinctions, still one must be transcendentally qualified. You cannot purchase transcendental knowledge; you cannot force it by your strength; nor can you speculate it from your mind. The only way to receive transcendental knowledge from the descending disciplic succession is to love your spiritual master without motives. 
"To those who are constantly devoted and worship Me with love, I give the understanding by which they can come back to Me." (Bg. 10.10) 
Transcendental knowledge comes from the spiritual master, so there cannot be any adulteration either in the spiritual master or in the aspiring disciple, otherwise the transcendental effect is adulterated. However, in the beginning of Kåñëa consciousness one may not fully discharge the injunctions of the spiritual master, but because one is not resentful of this principle of faithfully following his spiritual master's instruction, and works sincerely without consideration of defeat and hopelessness, he will surely be promoted to the stage of pure Kåñëa consciousness.
Arjuna has this qualification of sincere love. 
"That very ancient science of the relationship with the Supreme is today told by Me to you because you are My devotee as well as My friend. Therefore, you can understand the transcendental mystery of this science." (Bg. 4.3) 
So it is a fact that anyone who wants to understand the Bhagavad-gétä must follow the line of Arjuna, who is recognized by Kåñëa, his spiritual master, as being a sincerely surrendered soul. A bona fide spiritual master is in the disciplic succession from time eternal, and there is not in his teachings the slightest deviation from the instructions of the Supreme Personality of Godhead as it was first imparted millions of years ago to the sun-god Vivasvän. (See Bg. 4.1) One should be careful to avoid self-interested people who seek aggrandizement and who deviate others from the actual path. One should understand that just as the Lord is transcendental, so is His representative, the bona fide spiritual master.
Not only does Kåñëa demonstrate the crucial importance of surrendering to the spiritual master by delivering the Bhagavad-gétä to His disciple Arjuna, but to avoid any misunderstanding He specifically declares: 
"Just try to learn the truth by approaching a spiritual master. Inquire from him submissively and render service unto him. The self-realized soul can impart knowledge to you because he has seen the truth." (Bg. 4.34) 
His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupäda, my spiritual master writes the following purport to this important verse in his Bhagavad-gétä As It Is.
The singular importance of the spiritual master is even more explicitly declared by the Lord Himself in the Ädi puräëa, as quoted in The Nectar of Devotion by the author His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupäda. 
"My dear Pärtha, one who claims to be My devotee is not so. Only a person who claims to be the devotee of My devotee is actually My devotee." (Ädi-Puräëa) 
On the supreme authority of Lord Kåñëa Himself, you cannot approach Him directly, but only through His pure devotees. Thus a Vaiñëava always first accepts a spiritual master and then renders service to him.
A bona fide spiritual master is not an ordinary person. If a disciple does not understand the transcendental nature of his spiritual master, then it is better for him not to accept a spiritual master. Accepting a spiritual master means to surrender everything 100% to him. You cannot argue or debate with him. You can only surrender, serve, and inquire. The qualification of the spiritual master is stated in The Nectar of Devotion, page 58: he must have realized the conclusion of the scriptures by deliberation and arguments and be able to convince others of these conclusions. Such great and unique personalities who have taken shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, having put aside all material considerations, are to be understood as bona fide spiritual masters. Rascal spiritual master, who are not directed by scriptural injunctions, whose character is doubtful, who do not follow the principles of devotional service, or who have not conquered the influence of the six sense gratifying agents of the tongue, belly, genitals, anger, mind, and words, should never be accepted as a spiritual master by a sincere candidate for spiritual life. Because of his total surrender to Lord Kåñëa, a pure devotee automatically develops all good qualities, which he does not have to develop extraneously. These qualities are specifically mentioned in the Bhagavad-gétä, 12.13-19: 
He is not envious, he is truthful, free from false ego, always satisfied, equal both in happiness and distress, etc.
Such a pure devotee is very, very dear to the Lord because of his unalloyed service attitude. 
"There is no servant in the world more dear to Me than he, nor will there ever be one more dear." (Bg. 18.69)
The pure devotee is completely dependant upon the mercy of the Lord, and according to the Lord's promise, His devotee will never be vanquished, even though he may have to withstand many severe tests. Such pure surrender out of love conquers the Lord so that He reciprocates with love to His devotee. 
"No one is envied by Me, nor am I partial to anyone. I am equal to all; yet whoever renders service to Me in devotion as a friend, is in Me and I am a friend to him. "(Bg. 9.29)
A pure devotee of the Lord is completely purified of the defects of all conditioned living entities. He is not illusioned. He does not have imperfect senses. He does not have the tendency to cheat others. He never makes a mistake. He has achieved this transcendental perfection by taking complete shelter at the feet of his spiritual master and thus through the spotless disciplic succession coming from Lord Kåñëa. This spiritual master has no connection with sense gratification or mental speculation. He has completely purified himself by surrendering completely to the Lord. 
nama oà viñëu-pädäya kåñëa-preñöhäya bhü-tale
çrémate bhaktivedänta-svämin iti nämine
namas te särasvate deve gaura-väëé-pracäriëe
nirviçeña-çünyavädi-päçcätya-deça-täriëe
"I offer my respectful obeisances unto His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupäda, who is very dear to Lord Kåñëa, having taken shelter at His lotus feet. Our respectful obeisances are unto you, O spiritual master, servant of Bhaktisiddhänta Sarasvaté Gosvämé. You are kindly preaching the message of Lord Caitanyadeva and delivering the Western countries, which are filled with impersonalism and voidism."
Lord Kåñëa further describes His pure devotee in the following verses. 
"Their thoughts dwell in Me, their lives are surrendered to Me, and they derive great satisfaction and bliss, enlightening one another and conversing about Me."(Bg. 10.9) 
"They are always engaged in chanting My glories. Endeavoring with great determination, offering homage unto Me, they worship Me with devotion." (Bg. 9.14)
How to approach the spiritual master is authoritatively presented in the Eleventh Canto of the Çrémad-Bhägavatam by Sage Prabuddha to Mahäräja Nimi, as quoted in The Nectar of Devotion. 
"My dear King, a disciple has to accept the spiritual master not only as spiritual master but also as the representative of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the Supersoul. In other words, the disciple should accept the spiritual master as God because he is the external manifestation of Kåñëa." 
Lord Kåñëa Himself confirms this also in the Eleventh Canto of Çrémad-Bhägavatam, 17th Chapter, 22nd verse. 
"My dear Uddhava, the spiritual master must be accepted not only as My representative but as My very self. He must never be considered on the same level as an ordinary human being. One should never be envious of the spiritual master, as one may be envious of an ordinary man. The spiritual master should always be seen as the representative of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and by serving the spiritual master, one is able to serve all the demigods." 
Iron which is constant contact with fire does not have the qualities of iron. It acts only like the fire, and any other lump of iron that comes in contact with it also becomes fire. By his unalloyed surrender, the spiritual master is God. 
"All these devotees are undoubtedly magnanimous souls, but he who is situated in knowledge of Me I consider to verily dwell in Me. Being engaged in My transcendental service, He attains Me." (Bg. 7.18)
The testimony that my spiritual master His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupäda is such a spiritual master is that I was once no different than a homeless dog on the street, but by the mercy of my spiritual master I have been able to realize these authorized conclusions. 
"By the mercy of Vyäsa, I have heard these most confidential talks directly from the master of all mysticism, Kåñëa, who was speaking personally to Arjuna." (Bg. 18.75) 
I therefore prostrate myself like a stick in the dust of the lotus feet of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupäda, and pray to him with all the humility at my command to fully engage my body, mind, words, and me, spirit soul, in his transcendental loving service to his satisfaction. "yasya prasädäd bhagavat-prasädo, yasyäprasädänna-gatiù kuto 'pi. By the mercy of the spiritual master one is benedicted by the mercy of Kåñëa. If the spiritual master is displeased, one's whereabouts is unknown."

Brahmänanda Svämé
Kirtanänanda Svämé
To His Divine Loving Grace Çréla Prabhupäda,
 On His Vyäsa Püjä Day, August 25, 1970

I offer my humble obeisances,
I offer my worthless daëòavats,
I offer endless prostrations
To Çréla Prabhupäda, His Divine Loving Grace.
Why did you come from Braja's holy land?
Why now in Kali's darkest hour?
Why were we not prepared?
The Absolute Truth has come.
O Holy Infinite Mercy,
O Pure Divine Grace,
O Savior of all the worlds,
Çréla Prabhupäda, it is you!
Some men worship cats and dogs,
Some sacrifice their all to fleeting sex;
What mercy you bestow on all who take-
Devotional service, eternal, O Divine Grace.
Where are you going, Çréla Prabhupäda?
Back to that realm from when you came?
Strike me or kill me-that I beg,
But never leave me, O Divine Grace
The pollution you see is all my own;
How painful to one so pure.
How can you forever absorb my sins,
Yet remain forever without sin?
Such patience, O Holy Father, no one can deserve;
But if you do not dry up my filthy mind,
What sun is left uncontaminated? 
I have no other shelter than You!
Kirtanänanda Svämé
Subaldäsa Svämé
I meditate on the lotus feet of His Divine Grace Çré Çrémad A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupäda and offer all obeisances unto him. He is the mercy representation of Caitanya Mahäprabhu and is very freely distributing pure love of Kåñëa to the Western world.
In the Caitanya-caritämåta it is said: 
"By the mercy of the spiritual master who is a pure devotee and by the mercy of Kåñëa, one can achieve the platform of devotional service. There is no other way." (Madhya 19.151) 
His Divine Grace is such a pure devotee, and he act like a touchstone because His contact can turn a base person into a lover of Kåñëa. This is the greatest gift that can be given to anyone. Therefore one should constantly pray for the mercy of the spiritual master and worship him as Kåñëa Himself with all due respect and attention because Kåñëa states in the Eleventh Canto of Çrémad-Bhägavatam, 17th Chapter, 22nd verse. 
"My dear Uddhava, the spiritual master must be accepted not only as My representative but as My very self. He must never be considered on the same level as an ordinary human being. One should never be envious of the spiritual master, as one may be envious of an ordinary man. The spiritual master should always be seen as the representative of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and by serving the spiritual master, one is able to serve all the demigods." 
I therefore fall at His feet and pray for His causeless mercy.
O servant of Sarasvaté Gosvämé, I offer all obeisances unto You and pray that I may become an instrument in Your service. You may do with me as You like.

Subaldäsa Svämé
Nameless
All auspiciousness unto our beloved spiritual master 
His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupäda.

"My dear Pärtha, one who claims to be My devotee is not so. Only a person who claims to be the devotee of My devotee is actually My devotee." 
The above instruction was given by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Çré Kåñëa, in the Ädi Puräëa to His dear friend and disciple Arjuna. Accepting a spiritual master is instructed by the Lord to Arjuna in the Bhagavad-gétä also.
"Just try to learn the truth by approaching a spiritual master. Inquire from him submissively and render service unto him. The self-realized souls can impart knowledge unto you because they have seen the truth. (Bg. 4.34)
Advancement on the path of self-realization means to unconditionally surrender unto the lotus feet of a bona fide spiritual master and offer unconditional service at the lotus feet of such a spiritual master. Without surrender and service unto the spiritual master, there is no chance of progress in spiritual life because the spiritual master is the representative of the Lord and is empowered by the Lord to release the conditioned souls from material contamination and reestablish us in our eternal constitutional positions as servants of God. This is confirmed in the Bhagavad-gétä and Çrémad-Bhägavatam.
Of these, the wise one who is in full knowledge, in union with Me through pure devotional service is the best. For I am very dear to him, and he is dear to Me. (Bg. 7.17)
He who follows this imperishable path of devotional service and who completely engage himself with faith, making Me the supreme goal-he is very, very dear to Me. (Bg. 12.20)
For anyone who explains this supreme secret to the devotees, devotional service is guaranteed, and at the end he will come back to Me. There is no servant in this world more dear to Me than he, nor will there ever be one more dear. (Bg. 18.68-69)
çuçruñoù çraddadhänasya väsudeva-kathä ruchiù
syän mahat sevayä vipräù puëyatérthä niñevaëät
"O twice-born sages, by serving those devotees who are completely freed from all ranges of vice, a standard of great service is done. And as the result of such great service, affinity for the messages of Väsudeva is made possible." (Bhag. 1.2.16)
atho mahäbhäga bhavän amoghadåk
çuchi çraväù satyarataudhåtabrataù
urukram asyä akhila bandha muktaya
samädhinä anusmara tad viceñöitam
"O Väsudeva, your vision is completely fixed and perfect. Your good fame is spotless. You are fixed in vow and situated in truthfulness. And as such you can think of the pastimes of the Lord in trance just for the liberation of the people in general from all material bindings." (Bhag. 1.5.13)
tvaà naù saàdariçito dhäträ dustaraà nistitérñatäm
kalià sattvaharaà puàsäà karëadhära ivärëavam
"We think that your goodness is met by us by the will of providence just to accept you as the captain of the ship which desires to cross over the difficult ocean of Kali, which deteriorates all the good qualities of the human being" (Bhag. 1.1.22)
This is further enunciated by the great Vedic authority and äcärya Çréla Viçvanätha Cakravaté Öhäkur. He states: 
yasya prasädäd bhagavat-prasädo
yasyäprasädänna-gatiù kuto 'pi
dhyäyaà stuvaàs taysa yaças tri-sandhyaà
vande guroù çré caraëäravindam
By the mercy of the spiritual master one is benedicted by the mercy of Kåñëa. Without the grace of the spiritual master no one can make any advancement. Therefore I should always remember the spiritual master. At least three times a day I should offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of my spiritual master.
Therefore when one accepts a spiritual master he must make it his life and soul to surrender and offer service to his spiritual master. Advancement in spiritual life depends on whether the spiritual master is satisfied with one's service and surrender. This is the test. In a recent lecture delivered in the Los Angeles Temple, His Divine Grace Çréla Prabhupäda stated that transcendental subject matters are understood only through surrendering. His Divine Grace Çréla Prabhupäda goes on to say, "Just as we offer daëòabatas, we fall down straight in front of the Deities, similarly, the first thing is that one must fall down straight before the spiritual master. If you don't find such a spiritual master, then don't accept him. When you accept a spiritual master, you surrender unto him fully. If you think he is not worth surrendering to, then don't accept a spiritual master. This is the Vedic process. Just like Arjuna. Arjuna was talking with Kåñëa as a friend, but when he saw this friendly talking would not solve the problem, at that time he surrendered to Kåñëa. Although he was His friend, still he accepted Kåñëa as his spiritual master." This example is specifically mentioned in the Bhagavad-gétä.
Now I am confused about my duty and have lost all composure because of weakness. In this condition I am asking You to tell me clearly what is best for me. Now I am Your disciple, and a soul surrendered unto You. Please instruct me. (Bg. 2.7)
So Arjuna offers himself to Kåñëa as a disciple; he wants to stop friendly talks. Talks between the spiritual master and disciple are serious, and now Arjuna wants to talk very seriously before the recognized spiritual master.
His Divine Grace Çréla Prabhupäda continues 
"The acceptance of a spiritual master means that you cannot argue; you have to accept. And before accepting, you have to consider, 'I am going to decide whether to accept this spiritual master and accept his words without argument.' That is the test. The first question is surrender. A person to whom you cannot surrender is not worthy to be your spiritual master. And if you think within yourself, I shall not surrender; I shall remain as his disciple,' then it is cheating. So that cheating process is not very much helpful for spiritual progress. Spiritual progress means that one must be very truthful. That is the brahminical qualification." 
This transcendental literature, the Bhagavad-gétä, has been presented by the Lord just to give relief to the conditioned souls desiring to become free of material contaminations. Therefore Kåñëa is the original spiritual master in the science of the Bhagavad-gétä, and Arjuna is the original disciple in understanding the Bhagavad-gétä. Therefore it behooves the desiring student to follow in the footsteps of arjuna and surrender unto the bona fide spiritual master.
The reason so much emphasis is placed on acceptance of a bona fide spiritual master is that the bona fide spiritual is the representative of the Supreme Lord and thereby is empowered by the Lord to relieve the fallen conditioned souls of materialistic misery, namely the hellish cycle of birth, death, disease, and old age. In the Eleventh Canto of Çrémad-Bhägavatam, Sage Prabuddha instructs Mahäräja Nimi as follows:
My dear Uddhava, the spiritual master must be accepted not only as My representative but as My very self. He must never be considered on the same level as an ordinary human being. One should never be envious of the spiritual master, as one may be envious of an ordinary man. The spiritual master should always be seen as the representative of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and by serving the spiritual master, one is able to serve all the demigods.
This is also confirmed by Çréla Visvanätha Cakraväti Öhakür in the following verse:
säkñäddhari-tvena samasta çästrair
uktas tathä bhävyata eva sadbhiù
kintu prabhor yaù priya eva tasya
vande guroù çré caraëäravindam
The spiritual master is honored as much as the Supreme Lord because of his being the most confidential servitor of the Lord. This is acknowledged in all the revealed scriptures and is followed by all authorities. Therefore I offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of such a spiritual master, who is a bona fide representative of Çré Hari.
It is further confirmed by His Divine Grace Çréla Prabhupäda, These servants of God come with a mission of life to propagate God consciousness in human society, and intelligent persons should cooperate with them in every respect.
The qualifications of a bona fide spiritual master are mentioned in the Eleventh Canto of Çrémad Bhägavatam, with Sage Prabuddha addressing Mahäräja Nimi: 
"My dear King, please know for certain that in the material world there is no happiness. It is simply a mistake to think that there is happiness here, because this place is full of nothing but miserable conditions. Any person who is seriously desirous of achieving real happiness must seek out a bona fide spiritual master and take shelter of him by initiation. The qualification of a spiritual master is that he must have realized the conclusion of the scriptures by deliberation and argument and thus be able to convince others of these conclusions. Such great personalities who have taken shelter of the Supreme Godhead, leaving aside all material considerations, are to be understood as bona fide spiritual masters. Everyone should try to find such a bona fide spiritual master in order to fulfill his mission of life, which is to transfer himself to the plane of spiritual bliss."
Specific qualifications of a bona fide spiritual master are as follows: He follows scriptural injunctions very rigidly. His character is perfect. (He follows the twenty-six qualifications of a devotee mentioned in the Vedic scripture Caitanya-caritämåta) He follows the principles of devotional service. He is fully conversant with the Vedic scriptures. He has conquered the six sense gratifying agents, namely the tongue, belly, genitals, anger, mind, and words.
According to the Nectar of Devotion, anyone who is practicing control of the six sense-gratifying agents may make disciples all over the world.
According to çästra, one is very fortunate to come in contact with a bona fide spiritual master. After many, many lifetimes of pious activity one comes to the platform of Kåñëa consciousness and is blessed by the Lord with a spiritual master to guide oneself on that path of pure devotional service. In the Caitanya-caritämåta it is stated, guru kåñëa kåpäya päya bhakti-lata béja: 
"By the grace of guru one gets Kåñëa, and by the grace of Kåñëa one gets a bona fide guru."
Therefore Kåñëa consciousness and advancement in spiritual life means staunch faith in both guru and Kåñëa. One minus the other is not good for the devotee. One should never try to approach Kåñëa directly. Anyone who talks of Kåñëa without service to guru will not be successful on the path of pure devotional service. These above statements are confirmed by the Vedic çästra, authorized äcäryas in the disciplic succession, by the supreme authority, the knower of all the Vedas, the Supreme Personality of Godhead Çré Kåñëa.
My dear Pärtha, one who claims to be My devotee is not so. Only a person who claims to be the devotee of My devotee is actually My devotee.
So in conclusion of this worthless attempt to offer my appreciations to His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupäda, I would like to take the opportunity of offering my worthless obeisances at the lotus feet of my spiritual master, who has been directly empowered by the Lord to relieve the miserable fallen conditioned souls such as myself from the ocean of nescience. And therefore I am always praying at the lotus feet of His Divine Grace Çréla Prabhupäda for his merciful assistance in dragging my doglike self up the spiritual platform of fulfilling the essence of human life-surrender to guru. Unfortunately I do not have sufficient strength, nor do I have proper intelligence to surrender, and therefore my position is very shaky. Consequently my only recourse is to take protective shelter at the lotus feet of my spiritual master and fervently pray that the day may come when I may begin to faithfully serve my spiritual master's instructions.
[No name given]
Sadänandiné devé däsé
nama oà viñëu-pädäya kåñëa-preñöhäya bhü-tale
çrémate bhaktivedänta-svämin iti nämine
Lovers abound to drag you away;
Satisfy her now, but she'll never stay.
Just to exploit-each takes what she will.
Only His Grace that hope for love can fill.
Intoxication, another false hope,
Sunshine and ice cream and bubbling soap,
All promise you happiness, but where's that at?
Without Prabhupäda you'll still die like a rat.
So give it all up and bow at his feet,
And by His Grace Lord Kåñëa you'll meet.
Play with the cows in Våndävana grass.
With a little blue boy, eternity pass.
There's Subal and Balaräma, all to play,
With eternal Truth there you can stay.
Drink always this nectar-bliss is for you.
Where you are a person and God is too!
Or cry in the dark-humanity's child,
Make you world void, morality defiled,
No where to turn-no hope for this race,
Or open your eyes to His Divine Loving Grace.
I offer my prostrated obeisances to His Divine Grace Çréla Prabhupäda, who has forced me to open my eyes with the torchlight of knowledge while I was standing in the darkness of ignorance.

Sadänandiné devé däsé
(ISKCON Hamburg)
Bhadrasena däsa Brahmacäré
The only light on a stormy night is the lightning flash revealing the variegatedness hidden by darkness. O perfect servant of Sarasvaté, You are dispelling the darkness. Full of life is this knowledge, clear and clean as the mountain stream. Revealing our true duty, the spiritual master has come, preaching devotional service, to love the Supreme Person. O teacher, O father, give us another chance to glorify and serve your Divine Grace.
Your footservant,

Bhadrasena däsa Brahmacäré
Tamal Kåñëa Däsa Adhikäré
To His Divine Loving Grace Çréla Prabhupäda 
on His Vyäsa Püjä Day, August 25, 1970

Chanting strongly the mahämantra,
Shaking with love of God;
Your Divine Grace's instructions
We cannot disregard.
Çré Caitanya's trusted messenger
Of Çré Kåñëa's personal reality
Chastiser of the impersonalists;
Protector of the Deity.
Äcärya of devotional service
In the line of Çré Vyäsa,
Bearing the torch of knowledge
Your Divine Grace alone can save us.
Çréla Prabhupäda, You have come
To teach us how to enter,
The kingdom of God cannot be had 
Unless we take Your shelter.
Kåñëa's pure devotee
No one can replace,
Our Lord and master,
Your Divine and Loving Grace.
Tamal Kåñëa Däsa Adhikäré
(ISKCON)
Madhumaëgala Däsa
All glories to Çré Guru and Çré Gauräëga,
Oh Prabhupäda, Protector of the most fallen, whose great heart beats to the rhythm Hare Kåñëa, Hare Kåñëa, Kåñëa Kåñëa, Hare Hare, Hare Räma, Hare Räma, Räma Räma, Hare Hare. Whose nectarine smile raises high our eyebrows of affection milking us dry with tears of love.

Madhumaëgala Däsa
(ISKCON Los Angeles)
Nameless
May my mind seek the Shelter of Him
Whose lotus feet destroy kalpas of sin,
Whose feet are garlanded with flowers,
Whose feet are eternally auspicious,
Whose feet traverse the three worlds,
Whose feet dance to a thousand drums,
Whose feet appear to me in dreams,
Whose feet bring joy, relief, remembrance,
Whose feet, I, unworthy, touch.
May my mind seek the service of Him
Whose hand, electric, awakens me to life,
Whose hand points out the Vedic open road,
Whose hand opens the ancient sacred books,
Whose hand writes absolute and golden words,
Whose hand beats the mådaìgas of Bengal,
Whose hand plays shining cymbals to the Lord,
Whose hand counts prayers upon a million beads,
Whose hand benedicts and fills the empty heart,
Whose hand soweth unknown seeds in the soul,
Whose hand gatherest the fruits,
Whose hand bestoweth copious gifts,
Whose hand bathes the blue body of Kåñëa,
Whose hand is a hand of fire,
Whose hand pats my head as I weep.
[no name supplied]
Suridäsa Adhikaré
TOUTES GLORIES A ÇRÉLA PRABHUPÄDA
Divine Maitre Spirituel
Et eternal messager,
Våndävana Vous avez laisse
Pour mettre fin a nos querelles.
Vos Pieds de Lotus ont a jamais sanctifie
Ces contrees froides et impersonnelles.
Deliverant la science du service devotionnel
Votre misericorde nous a combles.
Avec la chant des Saints Noms de Dieu
Et Votre Devouement pour Givinda,
Votre Grace apparient a Goloka,
Situee au plus haut des cieux.
Laissez-moi prier avee ferveur,
Afin que je ne Vous oublie jamais
Si Vous le voulez, dans mon coeur, Vouz pouvez rester
Vie apres vie.
Votre serviteur
Suridäsa Adhikaré
Translation:
Divine Spiritual Master
And eternal messenger,
Våndävana You have left
For bringing an end to our quarrels.
Your Lotus Feet have forever sanctified
These countries cold and impersonal.
Delivering the science of devotional service,
Your mercy has overflooded us.
With the chant of the holy names of God
And Your devotion for Govinda,
Your Grace belongs to Goloka,
Situated in the highest of skies.
Let me pray with fervor
So I will never forget You.
If you want it, in my heart You can stay
Life after life
Jaduräëé devi däsé
Dear Çréla Prabhupäda,
Please accept my prostrated obeisances at your lotus feet. Your Divine Grace is a messenger from Goloka Våndävana, and your mission is to attract the conditioned souls to associate with Çré Kåñëa and His eternal associates. You are yourself not different from Lord Kåñëa because who but the Lord can deliver His devotees. You are the representative of Balarämajé, the original spiritual master and the source of spiritual strength for all devotees. You are the manifestation of the Lord's infinite mercy, and therefore you are more merciful than the Lord. Thousands of births of penances and austerities cannot liberate one from the whirlpool of material energy but one word from the spiritual master, and the conditioned soul is at once free. As a business firm is bound by the order of its bona fide representative or by his signature on a contract, so Lord Kåñëa is bound by the words and promises of His bona fide representative. If you accept someone in the service of the Lord, then Kåñëa must also accept him.
You are always absorbed in the loving affairs of Rädhä and Kåñëa, and if we hear from you and follow you instructions then we can also enter into the kingdom of Våndävana. When you saw the photograph of Kartamasi in your apartment on the Bowery you told me "I like that doll," and "My desire is to be His friend." You are always thinking of Kåñëa, and He also cannot separate His mind from you. You are one of the Lord's dear friends in Våndävana, who is sometimes chasing the shadows that the birds make on the ground, sometimes shouting ill names into the well, sometimes imitating the sounds of the animals, sometimes sharing Lord Kåñëa's läòòus and kacoris and sometimes hearing Him tell jokes at lunch.
Because you have accepted Lord Kåñëa as your friend, you are an ocean of mercy pulling us who are rotting in the kingdom of material energy. As the swan dices deep into the water and grasps only the essence of the water, the milk, so you have forgotten everything material and grasped the essence of everything spiritual, the fearless lotus feet of the son of Nanda. And the nectar which you are always tasting from the feet of the Lord is flowing like a river from your lips in the form of the narration of the glories of His name, fame, form and pastimes. Simply by hearing from you, Çréla Prabhupäda, can give relief from the fire of material nescience, and simply by following your instructions we can enter into the association of His Lordship Çré Kåñëa in His eternal abode and receive from Him the special power of bestowing love of God to all living entities.

Jaduräëé devi däsé
(ISKCON Boston)
Çrématé Däsé
Bhaja Prabhupäda
I worship Çréla Prabhupäda, the spiritual master of the universe, who sits on his red velvet Vyäsäsana as Supersoul sits in my heart.
I worship Çréla Prabhupäda, the transcendental Guru, whose every activity is freely performed with love of Kåñëa.
I worship Çréla Prabhupäda, the friend of every living entity, who has given us bhakti, devotional service, as the means and the end.
I worship Çréla Prabhupäda, the real father and mother of us all, at whose lotus feet I am eternally taking shelter.
I worship Çréla Prabhupäda, the golden Lord and lover, who is always pouring forth transcendental nectar.
I worship Çréla Prabhupäda, the captain of our ship, He who could be with Govinda, He who could be in Våndävana, India, but He who is here with us. Such mercy-if only I could appreciate this gift from Govinda.
An opportunity to love
—to know
—to grow
Jayate! Jayate! Jayate!
Çréla Prabhupäda
Your eternal servant,

Çrématé Däsé
(ISKCON Los Angeles)
Patita Pavana Däsa
O Çréla Prabhupäda, only by your kindness, only by your patience, were we ever saved from further ignorance. O Çréla Prabhupäda, only by your mercy, only by your grace, could we have ever seen a sliver of a trace of Kåñëa.
All glories to Çré Guru and Gauräìga!
Dear Çréla Prabhupäda,
Please accept my humble obeisances at Your lotus feet, the potency of such feet being such as to attract even the most mäyä-stricken soul and almost inconceivably, force him to serve Kåñëa almost against his will. The dog in the street is engrossed in trying to satisfy his senses, but the rays of Your lotus feet have caught his eye, and now he is trying to drag himself past the flickering mundane pleasures which line the road to the dust of Your lotus feet.
These lotus feet are satisfying. The dog is not very intelligent, but he knows pleasure from pain. The senses burn like fire, but Your lotus feet are putting out this fire with the higher taste of spiritual pleasure.
All glories to Your lotus feet
Your fallen servant,

Patita Pavana Däsa
(ISKCON New Våndävana)
Dhanaïjaya däsa Adhikäré
I offer my most humble and respectful obeisances at the wondrous lotus feet of my spiritual master His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupäda Guru Mahäräja, who out of his causeless mercy is pulling so many fallen souls out of the darkness of this age of confusion and impersonalism and placing them in the dazzling light of Kåñëa consciousness.
He is spreading the benedicting rays of Lord Caitanya's saìkirtana movement to every nook and cranny of this fallen planet and thus instilling transcendental bliss in the lowest and most wretched of mankind.
He has installed the name of Kåñëa in every continent, and to all nations he is bringing peace, and his formula is, "Simply chant Hare Kåñëa and your life will be sublime." He is requesting the youth of all nations to take Kåñëa consciousness very seriously, and the result will be the perfection of this human form of life. And they are taking to this process very readily without any previous qualifications, and they, in turn, are spreading the universal message of love of Godhead, and all the world is vibrating with the holy names of Lord Kåñëa, thus purifying the hearts of all living beings.
I offer my most humble obeisances a thousand times at the lotus feet of my spiritual master, Çåéla Prabhupäda, who is so merciful as to have simply glanced over my wretched self and rekindled the spark of loving devotional service which had been dormant for many millions of lifetimes.

Dhanaïjaya däsa Adhikäré
(ISKCON London)
Gaurasundara Däsa Adhikaré
Blind lead the blind deeper into darkness.
Even the rich men's sorrows know no redress.
Modern education only trains us in guessing,
But you give to us the absolute blessing.
The bounty caught after endless nets cast,
Will be held by the dreamers awakened at last.
You appeared, the superexcellent sage,
Just to deliver the people of this age.
I had no hope, I was defeated
Until you explained the Bhagavad-gétä.
You are so kind to show mercy to me.
From illusion's grip please set me free.
You can see clearly to expertly guide
All homesick souls to Gauräìgas side.
You are the favorite of Çré Rädhä Kåñëa.
Let me pray to act just as you wish now.
Gaurasundara Däsa Adhikaré
(ISKCON Honolulu)
Keçava Däsa Brahmacäré
All glories to you Çréla Prabhupäda, you are a pure dvotee of the Supreme Lord Kåñëa and a perfect disciple of His Divine Grace Bhaktisiddhänta Sarasvaté Prabhupäda.
Your Divine Grace, let me offer my most respectful and humble obeisances unto your golden lotus feet again and again until I faint from exhaustion. Your Divine Grace, I beg to bring to attention that I may write and say praises for many days of Brahmä, and still the sum total would be an inadequate address to one fraction of your divine potency. Your Divine Grace, Oh how can one glorify, understand, know, that which unknowable. There is no limit to your magnitude, no culmination of your glowing magnificence.
Çréla Prabhupäda! You are the perfection of all that is good, perfect. But all I can do is render some insignificant service to the best of the ability which you have endowed me with, to the peak of this energy you have mercifully given to me, and pray that you may accept me and pray that my love for you is pure enough. You are the only one who can open my eyes. You know that I must go beyond praise and act only on behalf of you, surrender unto you fully with this life which I am offering to you.
jäyate Prabhupäda! jäyate jagat-guru jäyate!

Keçava Däsa Brahmacäré
(ISKCON Los Angeles)
Harer Näma däsa Adhikaré
Now I Know
1. Now I know why I'm sad,
For when I lost Kåñëa
I lost the best friend I had.
2. Çréla Prabhupäda had graced me
With pictures of Kåñëa
That even a blind eye can see.
3. Now I know Kåñëa's God,
Through His Grace my deaf ears
Have heard it from Çréla Prabhupäda.
Harer Näma däsa Adhikaré
(ISKCON Boulder)
Maithilé Däsé
My best friend is Kåñëa's best friend. His name is Prabhupäda. He loves Kåñëa more than anybody. Kåñëa loves him more than we can imagine. He is very kind to us. He gives us flowers in the morning. He lets us take care of Rädhä and Kåñëa, and he allows us to associate with Kåñëa, Balaräma and Subhadrä. He gives us nice songs to sing, dances to dance, and instruments to play. He smiles better than anybody, and when Kåñëa gives him some prasadäm, He always lets us have some too. We are really glad to have him as our best friend because he tells wonderful stories all about what Kåñëa does. You see, Kåñëa is our best friend too, only we forgot all about Him. He sent us His most saintly servant and best friend who never forgot Him to remind us that there is a blue boy in Våndävana who would like us to join Him and live with Him forever.
All glories to Çréla Prabhupäda.

Maithilé Däsé
(ISKCON Los Angeles)
Evalyn
All glories to Çréla Prabhupäda, the inconceivable mercy potency of the lotus-eyed one, Çré Kåñëa. 
Çréla Prabhupäda, because you fill all desires I beg of you one thing-that you may implant in this lusty heart of mine the desire to sincerely utter the names of Hare Kåñëa so that I may someday be able to render You some kind of service.
Your most fallen and unworthy servant,

Evalyn
(ISKCON San Francisco)
Dénanätha Däsa
Glory To He Whose Mercy Has Let Us See
How Much Illusioned We Are Subject To Be
I
Glory to He whose love rays have come,
Delivering the message which Caitanya begun.
II
In darkness lost souls all led astray,
Lost without hope not knowing the way;
Pure lights of love He has brought,
Delivering the way that Caitanya taught.
III
Glory to He whose mercy alone
Has brought devotional service to take us back home,
Delivering the message which never grows old,
Mahä-mantra, real life of the soul.
Dénanätha Däsa
(ISKCON San Francisco)
Narottamänanda Däsa
Çréla Prabhupäda, when I say your name, why do no tears come to my eyes? Why are not my throat and lungs chokes up with cough? You are the eternal servant of Rädhä and Kåñëa and have come to answer the cries of all fallen souls. Bearing the holy name as a weapon of love, You have conquered our hearts which were ever steeped in ignorance, and now You are leading us home. Çréla Prabhupäda, You are the personification of the mercy of Lord Nityänanda and have dragged this soul from the depths of his crowlike association, and You have placed him in the company of swans. Çréla Prabhupäda, I pray for the day that I can bring you joy. You have given me Kåñëa. But where is my desire to serve? Why is it that my mind and senses are uncontrolled?
I pray the time will come that my mind will think of You and my senses will be engaged only in Your service. I pray for that day that I can, with all humility and sincerity of Narottamadäsa Öhäkur fall down in complete surrender at Your fragrant lotus feet. Çréla Prabhupäda, I pray for the day that I develop love for my spiritual master. All glories to Your Divine lotus self.
Your most fallen and unworthy servant,

Narottamänanda Däsa
(ISKCON Detroit)
Govinda Däsé
All praises and glories to my spiritual master,
His Divine Grace Çréla Prabhupäda.
I, fallen soul, lost in turmoil of time by illusion blind, All glories to my spiritual master, His Divine Grace.
Despite my nescience, You have given to me knowledge and the eyes to see. The Personality of mercy you are, distributing harer näma prem wide and far. Who can describe Your kindness, for though we drift, You offer the greatest gift. How to know God, how to love God, the greatest mystery, and the solution You offer ever freely. Please give me the ability to serve You eternally, in whatever capacity You may choose for me.

Govinda Däsé
(ISKCON Honolulu)
Nitai däsa Brahmacaré
I wish to offer my most humble and heartfelt obeisances to His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupäda, who appeared on this date just before the turn of the century in the family of a pure devotee. He has been charged, by the highest authority, with the responsibility of spreading this pure love of God to the western world, where the rampant disease of impersonalism and voidism are the causes of so much spiritual confusion and are the roots of the soul-killing civilization current here today. With His Divine Grace's coming, the dam of delusion was broken, and the western world is being flooded with pure love for God-the same joyous inundation that first swept throughout India 500 years ago with the advent of Lord Caitanya Mahäprabhu, the most merciful of all incarnations. Please know it to be true that if it were not for His Divine Grace, I would have been dragged by the seething undercurrent of lust out into the nether regions of anger and hatred to grope in that darkness for any phantom shape. But instead, although my help is certainly unneeded, he has engaged me in helping to spread this benediction to all mankind. So I kick my particles of dust into the ocean of nescience where Çréla Prabhupäda is floating transcendental boulders for crossing safely and soundly to the shores of Goloka Våndävana, where some One awaits our arrival. Thus my good fortune has been made. I pray that I shall never forget how good that fortune is nor how it came by me. I offer my most prostrated obeisances unto the lotus feet of His Divine Loving Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupäda, uttama guru.

Nitai däsa Brahmacaré
(ISKCON Boulder)
Türyadäsa Brahmacaré
All glories to Your causeless mercy. 
In fact, I don't even understand 
Why I, the most fallen fool of all,
Am now being guided by Your hand.
By the grace of Kåñëa, it is said,
One receives the spiritual master.
By the grace of You, Çréla Prabhupäda,
I was saved from certain disaster.
All glories to Your causeless mercy.
In fact, I don't even understand
Why I, fool number one,
Was given guidance by Your lotus hand.
Türyadäsa Brahmacaré
(ISKCON Honolulu)
Trivikrama Däsa Brahmacaré
The Vedas describe narädhamas as the lowest of mankind heavily contaminated by the material conception of life. They also state that the pure devotee, the sat-guru can, through His causeless mercy, teach these lowest of mankind the perfection of human life, loving devotional service to Rädhä and Kåñëa.
But what of one so engrossed in material nature, one whose senses are so contaminated, that even after having associated with a pure devotee he still has no taste, no desire to serve Rädhä and Kåñëa? Where is the hope for one like me, so enthralled by illusion, so addicted to mäyä? Must he continue indefinitely in this hell of birth and death, disease and old age?
But wait! There is one truth so persistent, one fact so glaring, that it penetrates even the gross senses. It approaches from all ten directions, sometimes subtlely, sometimes forcefully, sometimes magnificently. And what is that truth that defies even mäyä's clutch? Simply that His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupäda is worthy to be worshipped by every living entity in this whole material creation, and my only prayer is that He allow me to offer my worthless obeisances at His holy lotus feet.
nama oà viñëu-pädäya kåñëa-preñöhäya bhü-tale
çrémate bhaktivedänta-svämin iti nämine
namas te särasvate deve gaura-väëé-pracärine
nirviçeña-çünyavädi-päçcätya-deça-täriëe
Trivikrama Däsa Brahmacaré
(ISKCON New Våndävana)
Vämanadeva Däsa Adhikaré
ÇRÉLA PRABHUPÄDA-OUR SPIRITUAL MASTER

Lord Çré Kåñëa has been so kind. He has sent me Çréla Prabhupäda, His pure devotee. In approaching His Divine Grace, I had only a small spark of desire to know about God. But Çréla Prabhupäda is so kind, so merciful, that he has kindled this flickering spark into the fire of devotional service. It is through Çréla Prabhupäda's mercy alone that he has instilled in me the desire to know, to love, and to serve Kåñëa. This service is the highest level of spiritual understanding, the perfection of human life, coming from the most confidential devotee of the Lord. I offer my obeisances, my service and my life to the mission of spreading Çréla Prabhupäda's divine teachings so that I may somehow show the sincerity of my claims.
Eternally indebted to our mutually beloved spiritual master,

Vämanadeva Däsa Adhikaré
(ISKCON St. Louis)
Indira Däsé
"Just try to learn the truth by approaching a spiritual master. Inquire from him submissively and render service unto him. The self-realized soul can impart knowledge unto you because he as seen the truth." (Bhagavad-gétä, 4.34)
In this verse, Lord Kåñëa is revealing the process for self-realization. One must first approach the bona fide spiritual master, make sincere inquiries and render service.
It is said that by Kåñëa's mercy one obtains a spiritual master, and by the mercy of the spiritual master one gets Kåñëa. On this most auspicious day of Vyäsa Püjä, my most earnest desire is to find some way to thank Kåñëa for His causeless mercy in leading me, as blind as I am, to the service of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupäda.
"All the devotees of the Lord traverse this earth just to recover the conditioned souls from their delusion." (His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupäda)
Such a powerful devotee of the Lord can pick up even the lowest among mankind. Thus by the causeless mercy of Kåñëa, I, the lowest among mankind, have been stepped upon by the lotus feet of His servant and dearest friend. 
Therefore, let me offer my respectful obeisances to His Divine Grace Çréla Prabhupäda.

Indira Däsé
(ISKCON St. Louis)
Gurudäsa
tad viddhi praëipätena
paripraçnena sevayä
upadekñyanti te jïänam
jïäninas tattva-darçinaù
"Just try to learn the truth by approaching a spiritual master. Inquire from him submissively and render service unto him. The self-realized souls can impart knowledge unto you because they have seen the truth." (Bg. 4.34)
I offer my prostrated obeisances unto your lotus feet O Divine Çréla Prabhupäda, where I find shelter in the sweet shade offered by your toes of knowledge. You who has seen Kåñëa and has given with causeless mercy to the moonlike recipients in this miserable place.
I have so much to surrender to you for, and yet your mercy alone can remind me of this fact.
I thank you for fathering so many Vaiñëava Godbrothers and sisters and I can learn at their feet, they who are learning to be worthy of the regal name "Vaiñëava."
I offer my humble obeisances unto your golden self, who is more magnanimous than anyone because you are bestowing freely what no one else has given to the West, pure love of Lord Caitanya, who has given us pure love of Kåñëa. And you have presented to us the most wonderful line of paramparä lineage, whose heritage we are blundering to keep.
And as we grope, you come and remind us that we must "simply chant Hare Kåñëa," and our answers to all questions will be revealed. You have given us the linkage (the transcendental umbilical cord) with the most complete reservoir, purity unbounded, mercy manifest, Çyämasundara, the end of our soul's love.
You must do with me anything, yes, anything that Kåñëa desires since the composition of gross elements called lovingly by you as Gurudäsa is nothing but another bit of paraphernalia dedicated to Kåñëa's service, impure now, but by your direction this gross material is brought into transcendental service, for it is said in the Çré Éçopaniñad:
éçävasyam idaà sarvaà 
yat kiïca jagatyäà jagat, 
tena tyaktena bhuïjéthä.
mä gådaù kasya svid dhanam
"Everything animate or inanimate that is within the universe is controlled and owned by the Lord. One should therefore accept only those things necessary for himself which are set aside as his quota, and one should not accept other things, knowing well to whom they belong." 
So continue to please offer me to Kåñëa, and by determination and unflinching faith in you I will try to help you instead of making you pull the opposite way, away from illusions sphere.
You are the general on the battlefield of mäyä, directing expertly with your boundless tactical moves that extend from Kåñëaloka and embarrass mäyä at every turn, You come and everything lumpy becomes smooth. Çréla Prabhupäda, you whose clever diplomacy satisfies the most demanding of demons. Who became the marriage councilor in front of my eyes, one evening, for a most respected and seemingly important diplomat of illusion who couldn't control the threefold miseries, and thus consulted our dispeller of woe, our beloved Çréla Prabhupäda. In London, one noted psychologist upon visiting Çréla Prabhupäda said to his wife, "I am going to see my psychiatrist."
Çréla Prabhupäda is the liaison between Kåñëa and all the living entities. Let me understand his teachings, as well as his bodily features, for his vani goodness pervade our dark hearts.
Çréla Prabhupäda, you are most expert as you cradle a flower softly between your lotus fingers for two hours on the morning walk, and your kindness knows bounds. For as I wait for you to stoop for the fifth day in a row to walk with you and receive knowledge, you spy me and say. "Oh, are you coming?" And I feel that I have benefited by you loving association already, for five days, and feeling selfish say, "Yes, Prabhupäda," and you so kind, accepting, tendering, say, "Thank you very much." As always I am uplifted and prance along at your side, knowing I am in the association of the extensions of Kåñëa, Rädhä, the gopés, the gopas, the Päëòavas, Lord Caitanya and associates, crores and crores of associates, so how can I ever be lonely. If I know one thousandth of you I know everything, you who are Mahäpauruñikaù, the most sincere devotee of Lord Kåñëa who has given again to this world the congregation of knowledge.
Sambandha or relationship, abhidheya or activity that pertains to the relationship, and prayojana or object of such activity, nothing else deviates from these categories of knowledge which you put before us so simply  and force us to ask
1) Who am I?
2) What am I here for?
3) Where am I going?
And though you are an associate of Kåñëa, you take the time to associate with the lowest speck of dust who is so puffed up. You touch and ruffle my sikha and head as it rests on your lotus foot, and in your causeless mercy you, like the sun, dry up the urine with your purity. And as the flower bends towards the sun, so also this weed bends towards you, for it is not mäyä that nourishes.
Add all the items of illusion together, and the product will be illusion with all its attendant miseries.
So always you attract us moths away from the flame of illusion, out of the window in freedom to be fed by kåñëa-prem.
And I remember fondly in Ascot, England, when a butterfly or moth perched on your finger submissively, like a trained lion, wanting your association. And when you pointed your finger, the whole world revolved around it.
So why be unhappy? That is not spiritual life, for it is mäyä that causes this unhappiness. Why join her?
yasmin sarväëi bhütäny
ätmaiväbhüd vijänataù
tatra ko mohaù kaù çoka
ekatvam anupaçyataù
"One who sees all living entities as spiritual equals, in quality one with the Lord, becomes a true knower of things. What is there as illusion or anxiety for him?" [Éço 7 ]
This you taught me every morning in England, as well as politics, grammar, ethics, economy, history, physics, metaphysics, ontology, morphology, and diplomacy. Oh, wretch that I am to have forgotten all.
So Çréla Prabhupäda, all I want to say, and I can't say enough, is that I don't want wealth, respect, love, knowledge, liberation, anything. I want you. You who have given me a microscopic taste of that unfathomable nectar where your home village lies, where as 
"I worship that transcendental seat, known as Çvetadvépa where as loving consorts the lakshmis in their unalloyed spiritual essence practice the amorous service of the Supreme Lord Kåñëa as their only lover; where every tree is a transcendental purpose tree where the soil is the purpose-gem, all water is nectar, every word is a song, every gait is a dance, the flute is the favorite attendant, effulgence is full of transcendental bliss, and the supreme spiritual entities are all enjoyable and tasty, where the numberless milk-cows always emit transcendental oceans of milk; where there is eternal existence of transcendental time, who is ever present and without past or future and hence not subject to the quality of passing away even for the space of half a moment. That realm is known as Goloka only to a very few self-realized souls in this world" (Çré Brahma-saàhitä 5.56) 
This you delivered to me in a ceremony of second birth, the sound of Kåñëa's flute, you, the father, gayatri and Vedas the mother, and I the naughty child. 
So I pray that everyone will wake up and listen to these paramparä teachings and follow your finger, pointing straight up, out of your bead bag, pointing back home, back to Godhead.
Your servant

Gurudäsa
(ISKCON London)
Yamunä Devé Däsé
Vyäsa Püjä Homage

O my Lordship, Çréla Prabhupäda, from your eternal abode of Goloka,
My only craving is to hear in your company
The pastimes of Kåñëa and Rädhikä,
As the subject and object from the depths of my heart.
O my Lordship, Çré Kåñëa Caitanyadeva, appearing as the son of mother Sacé,
May I take the shelter of those lotus feet of Thine.
May my mind, body and all of my energy
Be offered unflinchingly to the feet of my preceptor His Divine Grace Çréla Prabhupäda.
O my Lordship, Çréla Prabhupäda, from your eternal abode of Goloka,
My desire is cemented to your ankle bells of knowledge,
My love is cemented to your footfalls of mercy.
All in all, thou art my life, thou art my life.
O my Lordship, the ocean of mercy, Lord Nityänanda Balaräma Prabhu,
You are always full of transcendental bliss.
May I taste one drop of that ocean of unalloyed Kåñëa-bhakti-rasa
To offer steadily increasing love and devotion in the service of His Divine Grace Çréla Prabhupäda.
O my Lordship, Çréla Prabhupäda, from your eternal abode of Goloka,
sa vai puàsäà paro dharmo yato bhaktir adhokñaje
ahaitukyapratihatä yayä'tma samprasédatu
O glory, O glory to your lightning message from Kåñëa's arms, His Divine Grace Çréla Prabhupäda.
O my Lordship Çré Advaita Äcarya Prabhu,
You are Éçvara, the Lord of all Vaiñëavas, exposing Yourself as Bhakti-avatära.
May Your immeasurable potency be mirrored in my heart
By the ardent praising of the glories of His Divine Grace Çréla Prabhupäda.
O my Lordship, Çréla Prabhupädaji, from your eternal abode of Goloka,
May my determination undeterred culminate in endless obeisances unto you.
That väëé presence of sweet recollection that I am only your servant 
And you are my eternal master, in any condition.
Yamunä Devé Däsé
(ISKCON London)
Muralédhara Däsa & Christine Carol
"After many births and deaths, he who is actually in knowledge surrenders unto Me, knowing Me to be the cause of all causes and all that is. Such a great soul is very rare." (Bhagavad-gétä, 7.19)
His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupäda is very rare. It is a practical fact that his every thought, word and action is surrendered at the lotus feet of Govinda, the primeval Lord and reservoir of all transcendental mellows.
One must travel throughout the three worlds before he is finally fortunate enough to meet a bona fide spiritual master who can give him direction back home, back to Godhead.
Çréla Prabhupäda has delivered me from the frustration of material life. By his causeless mercy he is giving me the joyful reality of Kåñëa consciousness. Oh what happiness is service at his lotus feet!
The dearmost friend and ever well-wisher, my savior and most worshipful Lord, I have nothing to offer except my undying gratitude that you have engaged me in your service.

Muralédhara Däsa

My most humble obeisances unto the lotus feet of Çréla Prabhupäda, whose infinite compassion penetrates the hearts of all souls.

Christine Carol
(ISKCON Boston)
Haàsaduta Däsa Adhikaré & Himavaté Devé Däsé
1) Çréla Prabhupäda is his name,
from Våndävana he came
To bless the dumb and spiritually lame
By giving them the holy name.
2) By his grace a dumb man speaks,
And a lame man gets spiritual feet.
He sits on the Vyäsa seat,
And countless Prabhus serve his feet.
3) Hear from him, become a speaker;
Deliver the fallen through Bhagavad-gétä;
A real mahätmä, not  a cheater
That you become God interpreting the Gétä.
4) Free as a bird in the egg,
Falsely proud, we do not beg
His mercy, so we continue to forget
Eternal life, for birth, old age, disease and death.
5) This human form has just one purpose:
To catch the seed of devotional service.
The goal of life lost without notice;
Instead of God, dog is our solace.
6) God is great and we are small,
But you have taught us, that's not all.
The chief eternal we should call.
Let me serve you. I'm helplessly fallen.
7) Eternally indebted to you,
For opening our eyes, O Çré Guru.
To serve you feet is what we want to do.
Two wretched beggars, we stand before you.
8) Although we're unworthy and unqualified,
Won't you accept us to be purified,
That by your grace we may go inside
The kingdom of God, fully rectified?
9) This is our offering, our prayer is done,
Please allow us to beg your pardon
For exhibiting ourselves so dumb,
Like one with a candle who tries to illuminate the sun.
Haàsaduta Däsa Adhikaré & Himavaté Devé Däsé
(ISKCON Hamburg)
Rudra and Rädhikä
My dear Çréla Prabhupäda, 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 Çréla Prabhupäda, 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, Çréla Prabhupäda. 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 Kåñëa to give us the strength to become Your servants. We are praying that we may raise children to the chanting of Hare Kåñëa. To hear Bhagavad-géta, Çrémad-Bhägavatam 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 brahmäsmi-all are eternal servants of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Çré Kåñëa.
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—Çréla Prabhupäda, Your loving qualities are as unending as the eternal abode of the Lord.
Your most unworthy servants,

Rudra and Rädhikä
(ISKCON Chicago)
Kulaçekhara Däsa Brahmacäré
Vyäsa Püjä Homage 1970

"My dear Lord, You are the deliverer of living entities from the hellish condition of materialistic life, but that does not matter to me. Whether I am elevated to the heavenly platform, or I remain on this earthly planet, or I am dispatched to the hellish planets…that does not matter at all to me. My only prayer is that at the time of my death I may simply remember Your two beautiful feet, which are just like the lotus flower fructifying during the autumn season." (King Kulaçekhara, Mukunda-mälä-stotra)
This poem by King Kulaçekhara is the essence of Your teaching Çréla Prabhupäda: to serve unalloyed with mind fixed on Kåñëa at every moment, in any place. Let me take this teaching into my heart as the be-all and end-all of my life. By Your grace I have gained the intelligence to realize a little of the essence of this teaching. So now it is my duty to dovetail all of my intelligence in the service of Their Lordships Çré Çré Rädhä and Kåñëa and propagate this knowledge of Bhagavad-gétä and Çrémad-Bhägavatam to the fallen souls of Kali Yuga.
I am relishing Your association through the medium of Book Bhagavatä daily and also chanting my rounds, serving the Deities, eating Kåñëa prasädam, going on saìkértana and associating with such nice devotees here in Hamburg Temple, and I know that this is all You ask me and also these activities are most pleasing to Your Grace.
So this is my only prayer, Çréla Prabhupäda, let me become Kåñëa conscious. I have no other business or duty in this planet, or any other planet for that matter. But still, my words of praise are so dry. Just let me continue to serve You. That is all I beg.
I beg to remain Your servant,

Kulaçekhara Däsa Brahmacäré
(ISKCON Hamburg)
Gour-Hari Däsa
We All Go Back to Godhead
My devotional service is cleaning the altar. I take care of my Deities and make garlands for Çréla Prabhupäda. My spiritual master is pure. He gives flowers when You give Him flowers. I chant rounds. I serve Çréla Prabhupäda fruits and incense. You are very Kåñëa conscious. When You touched my head, it felt as soft as a rose petal. The first time I saw You I cried a little bit because I want to go back to Godhead.
All glories to You, my dear sweet master who has kindly lifted me from the pits of heathen existence and placed me so neatly in Kåñëa's eternal abode. My dear father, You have made me dance and sing and rejoice like a little boy shouting Hari, Hare Näma. You are my puppeteer, breathing life into my ears, all glories to those strings of life that are pulling this wretched creature from the muck to Godhead.
All glories to Your causeless mercy, which covers the three worlds and is discussed most intimately by the gopés themselves.
All glories to the dearest teacher, who has come to these materialistic, godless countries and proven, by His mere presence, that God is alive in the hearts of all living entities. Your teachings have relieved them once and for all of their atheistic burdens. Hari Bol, awaken to the holy name. A thousand times all glories to Çré Guru, who has forced me to love Him.
My dear father, I am the most fallen being, the most difficult and polluted, and yet, although You know me in this condition of life, You bestowed upon me the gift of grace, that shining jewel of bhakti.
My repeated obeisances to the dust that Your lotus feet kick to the winds. Even the demigods themselves relish after Your dust. You are the most worshipable servant. All glories to You, Çréla Prabhupäda.
Thank You very much.

Gour-Hari Däsa, July 30, 1970
(ISKCON San Francisco)
Rämänuja Däsa
My dear Çréla Prabhupäda. You are worthy of all glories.
You have so mercifully picked me up from the darkest of ignorance, and You have given Me Kåñëa's holy name.
You have delivered me from the deepest confusion and frustration and have showed me the way to pure love for Kåñëa.
You have given me shelter from the butchershop of material existence and have eased all my anxieties.
Through Your causeless love and mercy You have given such a fallen and wretched soul as myself Kåñëa's causeless devotional service.
You are a pure lover of Lord Kåñëa, and therefore I do offer You my most humble and worthless obeisances.
Jayate Prabhupäda.
Your worthless servant,

Rämänuja Däsa
(ISKCON San Francisco)
Hayagréva däsa
May my mind seek the mercy of Him
Whose eyes are great springs of compassion,
Whose eyes see Him behind materials,
Whose eyes strike the flame of devotion,
Whose eyes sparkle with kindly wisdom,
Whose eyes are the eyes of a child,
Whose eyes survey all in eternity,
Whose eyes are the sun and the moon,
Whose eyes close in rapt meditation,
Whose eyes have beheld the Great God,
Whose eyes are the soul and the Self.
May my mind seek the presence of Him
Whose voice disturbs my long sleeping,
Whose voice calls the true names of youth,
Whose voice chastiseth demons,
Whose voice answers all yet is silent,
Whose voice chants the poetry of Sanskrit,
Whose voice chokes with longing and love,
Whose voice sings the mantras of praise,
Whose voice summons cows in Vaikuëöha,
Whose voice Kåñëa and Rädhä must know,
Whose voice I will hear at my death.
May my mind seek the vision of Him
Whose smile spreads a blissful effulgence,
Whose smile conquers legions of skeptics,
Whose smile uproots the weeds of my doubt,
Whose smile lightens the burdens of Kali,
Whose smile is worth the tears of my endless migrations,
Whose smile severs the tree with its roots above,
Whose smile dissolves my pride and illusion,
Whose smile is a downpour of mercy,
Whose smile extinguishes the blazing fire of saàsära,
Whose smile draws nectar from bright seas of knowledge,
Whose smile, amidst two armies, speaks to my battle worn self.
Hayagrévadäsa
(ISKCON New Våndävana)
Çré Govinda Däsa
All glories to the most worthy servant of His Divine Grace Çré Çrémad Bhaktisiddhänta Sarasvaté Gosvämé Prabhupäda.
I who am standing in darkness do offer my respectful obeisances unto His Divine Grace Çréla Prabhupäda A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami, who has come to me and forced my eyes to open to the torchlight of knowledge.

Çréla Prabhupäda, Your service is our only purpose in life. Through Your causeless mercy only we are being awakened from our deathlike material sleep. You have opened our eyes to the prison of material existence in which mäyä has kept us since that time in the far distant past when we chose to leave our home and our loving relationship with the Supreme Lord Çré Kåñëa. We are trapped in this prison by our desires for the stool of temporary matter, and You alone on this whole planet of death are helping us to escape. You are pounding down the walls of nescience and sawing through the bars of lust, anger, and greed. But still we are searching in every corner of our cell for somewhere to hide from the truth which is shining in through the crevices made by Your mighty blows. But there is nowhere to hide. You will not let us hide. Help us, Çréla Prabhupäda. Help us transcend our tiny selves and our selfish desire so that we can immerse our beings in service to You in Your great mission as given to You by His Divine Grace Çré Çrémad Bhaktisiddhänta Sarasvaté Gosvämé Mahäräja Prabhupäda. All glories to Çré Guru and Gauräìga!

Çré Govinda Däsa
(ISKCON Detroit)
Prabhävaté Dasé
Çré Vyäsa Püjä Offering

May we serve Çréla Prabhupäda every single moment with everything we have. He is uplifting us out of ignorance. Çréla Prabhupäda is so merciful. His mercy and pure love are beyond my present understanding. He is the most humble, the most kind person I know. So many offenses I commit, but by the mercy of Çré Çré Rädhä and Kåñëa, Çréla Prabhupäda and the devotees, I am still here. May we follow Prabhupäda's guidance. May we serve Prabhupäda with devotional loving service eternally. Through Çréla Prabhupäda's and Lord Caitanya's and Çré Çré Rädhä-Kåñëa's grace, may we spread this Saìkértana movement.
All glories to Çréla Prabhupäda.
May we surrender unto Him.
The most fallen
Prabhävaté Dasé
(ISKCON Boulder)
Änanda Däsa Brahmacäré
I at the feet of Guru Mahäräja
obeisances give prostrate;
Please drag me back to Godhead, back to home,
eternal blissful state.
No love can e'er I have for sweet Hari,
but by His kindmost grace
He gives this ripened fruit to everyone 
who gives such fruit a place.
So many defects have I wondering when
I shall become sincere;
He teaches of Lord Caitanya to whomever wants
to understand and hear.
When shall my knowledge be transferred from head
to heart; and when, thus free
From bondage unto Mäyä, slave to Him,
I be and thus set free?
When shall I know His mercy great, unparalleled His store;
He frees from sinful reaction those who will
go forth and sin no more.
Våndävana now more sanctified by His
merciful sojourn there.
By means of tolerance and humility,
He shows the simple way;
He presents the Vedic literature, but never
from Rüpa will He stray.
When shall I tear away my senses from
mundane, ephemeral things
And fix on Çréla Prabhupäda's lotus feet
to know the love he brings?
Änanda Däsa Brahmacäré
(ISKCON Honolulu)
Gopala Däsa Brahmacäré
All Glories to His Divine Grace, who is uplifting the most fallen souls from the darkest mundane conditions to the level of love of Kåñëa. And only by the grace of the spiritual master is one benedicted by the mercy of Kåñëa. I offer my most unworthy obeisances to your lotus feet.

Gopala Däsa Brahmacäré
(ISKCON New Våndävana)
Mahäpuruña Däsa Brahmacäré
In my heart, Çréla Prabhupäda dispels all darkness and dismay,
Just as the effulgent sun drives away dark night each day.
Even thought I turned from Him just like a stupid fool,
He soothed my burning heart more than the summer moon is cool.
As pure devotee and äcärya, He fully does His part,
But Çréla Prabhupäda never clams himself to be smart.
He gives all credit to His Guru Mahäräja Çréla Bhaktisiddhänta.
And because of his most humble way, He knows that secret Vedanta.
O Çréla Prabhupäda, please save me—I am fallen down so low.
Outside Your loving grace there is no other way I know.
To Lord Nityänanda I pray, please fix me in Çréla Prabhupäda's service;
Then about my sinful life no longer I'll feel nervous.

Mahäpuruña Däsa Brahmacäré
Madri Devé Däsé
All glories to your Divine lotus feet, O Çréla Prabhupäda, our most merciful 
Guru Mahäräja. Your Divine Grace has so kindly afforded our fallen souls
the shade of Your lotus feet. I prostrate my most fallen self and beg to be
always engaged in endless service so kindly bestowed upon me by Your
Divine Grace. O Çréla Prabhupäda, so kindly are you showering mercy
upon our sleeping souls suffering from separation from Govinda. Your
Graces most divine and merciful gift of Hare Kåñëa, O disciple of Çréla
Bhaktisiddhänta Sarasvati, has banished all impersonalism and voidism
from our hearts. Being so dear to Lord Çré Kåñëa, without Your Divine 
Graces mercy we would never have been reawakened to the light of
devotional service of Kåñëa the cowherd boy of Våndävana. Please accept
this offering of my most worthless services at Your Divine Lotus feet.

Madri Devé Däsé
(ISKCON London)
Yvonne Prabhu
All glories to Çréla Prabhupäda, who is kind, situated at the lotus feet of Çré 
Kåñëa, who, knowing and loving Kåñëa as a dear friend, never ceases to
glorify Him by chanting beautifully about His pastimes, who, through his
causeless mercy, is delivering us, the fallen conditioned souls, from this
material nescience, who, by example and teaching, is giving the jewel of
the love of Kåñëa. All glories to Çréla Prabhupäda, who has made possible
to all an eternity of devotional service to the lord.
nama oà viñëu-pädäya kåñëa-preñöhäya bhü-tale
çrémate bhaktivedänta-svämin iti nämine
namas te särasvate deve gaura-väëé-pracäriëe
nirviçeña-çünyavädi-päçcätya-deça-täriëe

Yvonne Prabhu
(ISKCON London)
Dämodaradäsa Adhikäré
O our spiritual master, just by Your grace please allow us to offer unto You our obeisances, which are so full of faults and offenses. Your Divine Loving Grace, You are the all-merciful spiritual master of the universe. Since we are so weak and unfeeling, we are praying to the Lord for strength and devotion on executing Your orders. We have no understanding of You. You are always with Lord Kåñëa, so You are an inconceivable ocean of mercy, which we have not had the intelligence to jump into. So let us also pray unto You to give us strength and devotion in Your eternal service, which is the perfection of this human life. Unless a person is serving You, he has no hope of leaving this miserable world of death. Only You can bestow love of God to suffering humanity at this time because You are the only present bona fide representative of God. You are the very self of Kåñëa, as confirmed by Rüpa Gosvämé. Without Your service by performing saìkértana in the public streets, no man can entertain the hope of spiritual life. And no one except Your divine self is pushing the saìkértana of Çré Caitanya Mahäprabhu, which will soon be the universal religion of mankind. We await with transcendental anxiety the day when all the kings of the world will bow down to You, the great king, Guru Mahäräja. Therefore please allow us to take shelter of Your lotus feet because You are so kind that You will accept even the most fallen, just out of Your love for Lord Caitanya. All Glory to You, Çréla Prabhupäda!

Dämodaradäsa Adhikäré
(ISKON Washington, D.C.)
Jayagovinda Däsa Adhikäré
1.
Captain of our ship, ablown
Across a stormy ocean,
Our master holds the calm
Within His hand, His fast devotion.
A crested peak above the skies,
From where a Lordships gaze
Descends in love to warm mens hearts,
Is answer to our  prayers.
There is His eye above the mist,
And matters shimmering displays,
Unmoved by earths phantasmagoria
Absorbed in transcendence ways.
And now to us His mercy comes,
Adrown in our reflected face,
To lift us by His causeless love,
To our original place.
2.
The world in every step will dance,
And tears on seeing shed;
When loves eyes bring us 
On life's path to Absolute to tread.
Tho' mercy comes not by our strength
Nor by the little we've earned:
We spoil the fruit of Kåñëa's love,
By grasping yet unlearn'd.
Love is in the teachers words,
Not our conditioned hearts.
With swelling pride let us not fall,
But look to where love starts.
Disciplic line now given us,
Will give one a path,
Who seeks the Absolute
As Kåñëa in the Gétä saith.
But love only hath our master
When down-bending by His grace,
He descends to our poor playground,
Bless us with His smiling face.
Jayagovinda Däsa Adhikäré
(ISKON Hamburg)
Dick Arthur
Çréla Prabhupäda, thou sayest that Lord Çré Kåñëa is the greatest thief, yet it is Thee hast stolen my heart. All glories to Thee, my beloved Guru
Prabhupäda.
Love,

Dick Arthur
(ISKCON Los Angeles)
Mohanänanda Däsa Brahmacäré
Çréla Prabhupäda –
On this most blessed day-
tvaà paryaöannarka iva trilokém
antaçcaro väyurivätma säkñi
parävare brahmaëi dharmato vrataiù
snätasya me nyunamalaà vicakñva
Your goodness, Çréla Prabhupäda, can go round everywhere in the three worlds like the sun and can penetrate into the internal region of everyone as good as the air, and as such You are as good as the all-pervasive Supersoul. Kindly therefore find out the deficiency in me although I am absorbed in transcendence under disciplinary regulations and in vow. Çréla Prabhupäda please accept my humble obeisances 1,000 times at Your lotus feet. I am so much indebted to You for picking me up from the darkness of ignorance. I was so much blind to the purpose of life, and this type of blindness is considered worse than death. For what is life without purpose? Simply animal sense gratification. The human body is called the ship, the spiritual master is the captain of the ship, the scriptures are the favorable breezes. Therefore let me now surrender unto Your expert guidance, O representative of Vyäsadeva, for I know that this is the only way I can ever find my way across the miserable ocean of hypocrisy, death and deceit.
tvaà naù samdarçito dhäträ
dustaraà nistitérñatäm
kalià sattvaharaà puàsäà
karëadhära ivärëavam
We think that Your goodness is met by us by the will of providence just to accept You as the captain of the ship which desires to cross over the difficult ocean of Kali, which deteriorates all the good qualities of the human being. (Bhag. 1.1.22)
Let me take refuge at Your lotus feet eternally. Çréla Prabhupäda, that is Your mercy.
Your most fallen servant,
Mohanänanda Däsa Brahmacäré
(ISKCON Los Angeles)
Viçäla Däsa Brahmacäré
To His Divine and Loving Grace and Spiritual Master of the Universe Çréla Prabhupada!

I offer my most humble obeisances to the lotus feet of my spiritual masters.
My deepest gratitude and sincere loving obeisances cannot express to You my deepest feeling of love and affection and admiration. I wish to express to You my sincerest appreciation for Your pure and infallible association, which is greater than life itself. I am the most fallen of Your disciples and humbly beg Your kind mercy.
I know You have given me Your grace, but due to my fallen condition I haven't taken full advantage of it. I will try to make every sincere attempt to be deserving of Your causeless mercy.
Please accept my heartfelt love and devotion and unflinching faith in Your Divine Grace. My most humble obeisances to You, Çréla Prabhupäda,

Viçäla Däsa Brahmacäré
(ISKCON San Francisco)
Chitralekha Devé Däsé
My respectful obeisances I offer to You, Çréla Prabhupäda, servant of Sarasvaté Gosvämé. You are so kindly preaching the message of Lord Caitanyadeva and delivering the Western worlds, which are filled with impersonalism and voidism. 

My dear Çréla Prabhupäda, out of Your causeless mercy, You have come and forced me to come away from a submerged in sense gratification, and led me to this life of religiosity. But I am fool number one, for I have no attraction to Your causeless mercy. O Prabhupada, I pray that one day I will be able to recognize Your mercy and serve Your lotus feet with unalloyed devotion.
All glories to You, Çréla Prabhupäda.
Your most unworthy servant,
Chitralekha Devé Däsé
(ISKCON San Francisco)
Cathy Barry
No more to say than that the path you guide us on, Çréla Prabhupäda, is the only way back home.
Hare Kåñëa Hare Kåñëa Kåñëa Kåñëa Hare Hare 
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare
Cathy Barry
(ISKCON St. Louis)
Yogeçvara Däsa Adhikäré
Bhaktivedanta- 
Means knowledge and love,
His mercy a gift 
Sent from above.
The name of Hari
Puts us in His embrace,
We bow at the feet, 
Your Divine Grace.
Hear, my soul, 
This fervent plea, 
Kåñëa's servant
You're meant to be. 
But for one boon
You'd not know your place,
The boundless love 
His Divine Grace.
This request 
He's made of me, 
Devotional service
Done patiently. 
Unflinching faith, 
Is all that it takes.
This comes by serving 
His Divine Grace.
By tracing His steps 
Success is sure,
Receiving the bliss 
That none can procure.
Our humble obeisances 
We gladly repeat,
Strive for the dust 
Beneath Your lotus feet.
We sin, we abuse,
Dare not see Your face. 
You smile and laugh,
Your Divine Grace.
Warmest of all,
You move the world. 
We follow Your staff
As You shephard our fold. 
There s no way to tell
How we relish the taste 
That comes from serving
Your Divine Grace.
Chukha, my Master, 
This be my desire,
To spread Your word 
And extinguish the fire,
To please You by walking In Gauräìga's pace,
The goal of my life, 
Your Divine Grace.
Faulty perception 
Has us deceived.
To know our true selves 
Begs being relieved.
We're freed by the sound of Väsudeva,
I surrender my life,
Your Divine Grace.
To prosecute well 
And not cause disgrace,
This be thy wish, 
Your Divine Grace.
I bow down at Your lotus feet with all the humility at my command.

Yogeçvara Däsa Adhikäré
(ISKCON London)
Cidänanda das
Çréla Prabhupäda,
The Lord is so kind to have sent you to the most fallen souls. And you are so kind to try to engage us in the service of the Lord. You have promised that if one services the Lord he will be happy and his life will be successful You are the most happy, and your life is the most successful.  You have explained the path of devotional service from a scientific point of view, and you are the pure devotee most versed in wisdom. Çréla Prabhupäda, all glories and yet again all glories for displaying the perfect example of a teacher. Srilä Prabhupada, you have said just sit down and Chant Hare Kåñëa Mantra and immediately you will feel very nice. And when you grow tired of having kértana, take nice food and just go on chanting and eating, and everything will be all right. Çréla Prabhupäda, all glories, all glories and yet again all glories to Your Divine Loving Grace. And you have said, Prabhupada, there is nothing  more valuable in this world than a devotee engaged in preaching Kåñëa consciousness. And so, Çréla Prabhupäda, I offer you my most respectful and repeated obeisances.
Your servant,
Cidänanda das
(ISKCON Vancouver)
Våndävana Candra Däsa
mukham karoti väcälam paìgum
laìghayate girim ya krpas
tamaham vande sri gurum dinataranam
''I am offering my respectful obeisances unto the spiritual master by whose mercy a dumb man can become a great speaker and a lame man can cross over a mountain, and whose thus delivers all fallen souls."
May I learn to love You, Çréla Prabhupäda, dearest father, friend and master only in this way will there be no more love for the mäyä witch. Unconditional surrender—this is the price you ask that I pay. So I ask for nothing more than to utilize my life's energy exclusively in Your loving service. For if I cannot hear of Your glories, better that I were deaf. And if I am unable to see You, better for me to be blind. And if I cannot serve in some insignificant way, then it is best that I die. Çréla Prabhupäda, You are everything.
Always Your servant,
Våndävana Candra Däsa
(ISKCON Baltimore)
Kåñëa Nandiné
1. Kåñëa, when I feel lonely 
Or when I've gone astray, 
Help me to know 
That through You only 
Is how I find the way.
2. Then when Mäyä comes to call 
And I follow where she leads, 
Show me before I weaken and I fall 
Kåñëa is all that I need.
3. Guide my steps where I can see 
The rightful place I once knew. 
Then back to Godhead 
Thru Çréla Prabhupäda's mercy 
I will return to you.
4. I stumbled thru the darkness, 
Trying to find a way 
To reason why we came to be
And where the answers lay.
5. A ray of light pierced the night 
With joy that filled my being; 
From the sound of Hare Kåñëa,
I knew what I was seeing.
6. The light became the master's face;
His voice rang clear and true. 
Sincere devotees will find their place 
With Kåñëa when life through.
7. Heed the words my master said,
He knows why we came to be;
He shows the way back to Godhead 
On the path eternity. 
Kåñëa Nandiné 
(ISKCON Los Angeles)
Karunäsindhu Däsa
All glories to my beloved preceptor A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupäda who has lifted me from the filthiest place and is constantly cleansing my black heart with the glow from his pure heart which is a million times brighter then the glow from a million suns. All glories to the Sacred Messenger and servant of Lord Caitanya and the servant of Çréla Bhaktisiddhänta Sarasvaté Gosvämé Mahäräja who is showering the fallen souls with the most dear nectar: pure love of Kåñëa which is the only succor for the misery of the burning fire of material existence. The task of glorifying Your causeless mercy is limitless and my facilities are most inadequate and meager. The only service that I can render to Your Divine Grace is that I am proof that You are the most merciful, for You have accepted me the most contaminated and degraded living entity as Your student. My plea is that You will kindly accept my eternal gratitude, for there is no question of ever being able to repay Your overwhelming mercy for You have bestowed upon me the greatest blessing, the most valuable and rare miracle—the shelter of Your lotus feet.

Karunäsindhu Däsa
(ISKCON Los Angeles)
Rukmiëé Däsé
Your Divine Grace Çréla Prabhupäda, I am recalling as you entered the temple gazing upon the Deity, Your Divine Grace golden and effulgent as the Deity, bent to prostrate yourself before Their Lordship and recalling to receive you in my heart. At the fearless refuge of your feet I beg to offer sweet smelling incense, in the round, circle your knees, your chest, humbly look into your eyes compassionate to those who are the wretched of those who are fallen, in the round circle your chest, your knees, and again your holy feet. O Divine master, I worship your feet the flame of sweet smelling camphor, in the round, circle your holy knees, your chest, seeing your lotus eyes, and  again recall your feet. O my dear Çréla Prabhupäda, the five flames of the ghee lamp offered at your feet. (O my dear master! you are light in this dark world) offered to your knee, your chest, your moonlike face, and again in the round, circle repeatedly, and again worship your feet. O that I may wash your holy feet with water of the conchshell, and the water be mixed with tears of love for you, and this water I am drinking as it is a nectarine river rushing into the ocean of love of Kåñëa. I beg to offer a cloth for drying your lotus feet, and in the round I meditate upon your knees, your chest, your face, (O my dear guru! All eyes but yours are closed!) and circle your chest, your knees, and feet, the äçrayä for we, the fallen. Dear Çréla Prabhupäda, at your fragrant lotus feet I beg to offer a sweet yellow rose circling again and again and up to your face and in the round again approach your feet. O Your Divine Grace I beg to offer you a cooling fan for your pleasure. O my dear Lord, I pray that a cooling fan be to your pleasure. By the blowing of the conchshell three times may all the people of the world become attracted to the holy name and offer loving service to Your Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Tridandi Gosvämé Prabhupäda.

Rukmiëé Däsé
(ISKCON Boston)
Çréman Patita Uddharana Däsa
Bhaja Çré Prabhupädamåta
You are God's most priceless angelic gift to us;
   You came as a penniless sage;
You carried with you Kåñëa's formula for the dawn of the golden Age.
   The passengers of the ship you sailed upon 
hardly recognized the pearl.
   Of a paramahaàsa mendicant destined to give shelter to the world.
Blossoming are the Vaikuëöha trees
   as their leaves play in the wind.
O as an orchard of saffron goodness 
   you moved gently across our land.
Your Hare Kåñëa mantra seeds have put 
   prosperity of sacrifice into the air.
They're sprouting as creepers of the awareness
   of Lord Krsnas mercy everywhere.
Transcendental do your lotus eyes open, 
   as a lotus flower unfolds,
Strong your countenance like the Himalayas:
   heavy truthful, bold.
Your story-telling is like Çré Yamunä,
   Rich the flavor of each one 
reserved for your pure devotees tastes.
Bright your fiery smile 
   effulgent like the sun-gods radiance,
And Vivasvän seeks out the Sumeru
   I beg you let me live within your glance
The nectar of surabhi cows 
   cannot be purer than the moonbeams of your eyes.
Your triumphant devotees express their love for you 
   together in one word of victory, ''Jaya."
Wonderful your books just like the sudarçana 
   which make mäyä's agents turn
Like lighting your pen so inspired, 
   the child or elder learns
Of the Supreme Personality As He Is, 
   and of the shelter of His feet.
You are His all-merciful representative,
   Your Divine Grace our only need.
Ecstatic emanations of thee are sweeter still 
   than the fine-petaled gardenias scent. 
Your teachings of pure devotion 
   are for tomorrows paramahaàsas meant 
may millions take shelter of your feet 
   like the bees on the ratha-yatra car 
for you are the only source of honey 
   found in twisted world bizarre.
Aloof you stand from the bodily demands 
   you head held high, erect.
By the strength of your devotion 
   Lord Caitanya's movement you protect 
Effulgent are the thousand suns 
   bursting within your heart.
Very dear you are to the faithful 
   who from your path can never part.
Saintly and delicate your emotions of waves of bliss 
   rove your soul entranced 
And in your golden, lotus footsteps 
   aspirants of bhakti become anxious to dance 
Lively just like the particles of dust 
   in a vagabond mass of wind.
Which swirls, circles, grows tired and stills 
   then rises eagerly to dance again.
More gentle and full than the Mother's 
   is your heartbeat of bliss.
The orphans you have nursed to life 
   bow down their heads in thankfulness.
Dry, then, like a walnut was my heart,
   filled with vipers of desire.
Now my heart has begun to open like a lotus,
   purified by Kåñëa conscious fire.
Yes, fully you are meant for worship,
   but especially, Sir, your feet
In acceptance of my shelter there
   does my life become complete.
Master you are of my spirit
   this eternal truth be always so.
Just tell me where you think it best for me
   and to that place I'll go.
In the light of knowledge I've stayed in darkness,
   but by your mercy I will learn
Spirit is revealed unto man who,
   from his senses to God has turned.
Of nothing I am qualified to speak, but I can assure you this:
   Unto every soul I meet ever I will declare
the holy name vibrates Vaikuëöha bliss.
I beg you accept these shallow slokas,
   how inadequate they praise thee.
I pray of course that your glories 
   spoken here are sung most properly.
May these poetic verses of Çré Patita
   speak well of thee, O Prabhupäda,
And may they assist whoever reads them
   to taste a drop of nectar of love of God.
Çréman Patita Uddharana Däsa
(ISKCON Vaikuëöha)
Janakaräja Däsa
17 Ñrédhara 484 Caitanya Era
To Çréla Prabhupäda,
I offer all my respects to You. You have so mercifully given me a new life, spiritual life. You have wiped away all the anxieties and frustrations of my past life. You are so kindly guiding on the path to home back to Godhead. All glories to You mercy upon the most fallen soul in the universe.
Your devotee 
Janakaräja Däsa
(ISKCON Los Angeles)
Jananiväsa Däsa Brahmacäré
For My Eternal Spiritual Master on His Appearance Day

I offer my most humble, respectful, and prostrated obeisances before the lotus feet of my spiritual master, His most exalted and Divine Grace Çré Çrémad Bhaktivedanta Gosvämé Mahäräja Prabhupäda. Why You have come into my life O Prabhupäda, I do not know. Only I bow at Your feet and ask with all humility at my command that I may cling mind and soul fully to Your service. O pure devotee, You are the spiritual master. You are the only äcärya  in this age.. All these other nonsense men can't hold a candle before You. How can I ever comprehend Your causeless mercy, O Çréla Prabhupäda? Please forgive the many offenses that I have committed in Your service. And please accept my most humble obeisances at Your precious lotus feet.

Jananiväsa Däsa Brahmacäré
(ISKCON Columbus)
Sänanda Däsa
Çréla Prabhupäda is wiser than the wise and so merciful. He is the answer to my most intimate questions. To look upon His lotus face is to see pure love for Kåñëa. He invokes only one desire—to surrender and serve Kåñëa. How I relish sitting at His lotus feet, soaking up the healing rays of pure love for God. All glories to the captain of the transcendental ship who is taking us back to home.

Sänanda Däsa
(ISKCON Los Angeles)
Mirabhai Däsé
I offer my most respectful obeisances to Çréla Prabhupäda, who has come to this western world to renew our eternal relationship with the Supreme Lord Kåñëa and take us home. Lord Kåñëa is the most worthy of praise. Let's sing His name and tell of His fame. Kåñëa has made everything, and servants are what we're meant to be. So let's sing Hare Hare and dance for Kåñëa and take prasädam.
I offer my respects to Çréla Prabhupäda from in front, from behind, from all sides I offer my respects.
Your servant,
Mirabhai Däsé
(ISKCON San Francisco)
Saraladevé Däsé
Offering of Worship to His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupäda

I offer my most humble obeisances at the holy lotus feet of my spiritual master, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupäda, who is very dear to Lord Kåñëa on this earth, having taken shelter of the transcendental Lord, and who, as the servant of Çréla Bhaktisiddhänta Sarasvaté Gosvämé Prabhupäda, is preaching the message of Lord Caitanya and thus riding the Western world of voidness and impersonalism. I offer repeated obeisances unto his lotus feet.

Lord Caitanya confirms that one travels through all 8,400,00 species of life, birth after birth after miserable birth, until he is somehow fortunate enough to gain the association of a bona fide spiritual master. I am praying to Lord Kåñëa that now He has given me the opportunity, I don't ruin it by offensive behavior. Çréla Prabhupäda has written, "To think of becoming a fool is the real qualification for a bona fide disciple. As soon as one thinks that he has become wiser than the spiritual master, one is surely doomed. We should remain everlastingly a fool before the spiritual master—not artificially, but feelingly—and then we can make real progress." yasya prasädäd bhagvat-prasädo: By the mercy of Kåñëa one gets a bona fide spiritual master, and by the mercy of the the bona fide spiritual master one is benedicted by the mercy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but if we are not careful to receive this mercy in a humble state of mind and with all due respect for its divine source, we will again fall from Kåñëa consciousness and become absorbed in the material atmosphere.
Çréla Prabhupäda is empowered by the Supreme Personality of Godhead to distribute unlimited spiritual mercy to everyone, but we must be willing to receive it. We must develop that qualification. Ye yathä mäà prapadyante: Kåñëa reciprocates with His devotees in proportion to their individual degree of surrender unto Him. The spiritual master is God's own self, as confirmed by Çréla Rüpa Gosvämé, and if the spiritual master is pleased upon us then our success in going back to Godhead is assured. We must try to render pure devotional service, free from mental speculation and personal self-interested motives, at the lotus feet of the spiritual master. Säkñäd hari: säkñäd means directly, and hari means God. The spiritual master is directly the representative of God, and He is to be worshipped as such. The instruction of the spiritual master coming through the bona fide paramparä is all perfect, and we have only to accept it in this way. Kåñëa says in Bhagavad-gétä, "One who executes his duties according to My injunctions and who follows this teaching faithfully becomes free from the bondage of fruitive reactions."(Bg. 3.31) We are all undergoing material misery as a reaction to our fruitive actions and it is [text missing]
I offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of my beloved Spiritual Master who is so kindly preaching the message of Lord Caitanya and saving the conditioned souls from being doomed. It is through Your causeless mercy that ALL my doubts are destroyed and gradually I am becoming a civilized human being. O dearest Prabhupäda, You are the perfect living example of what we can achieve in this lifetime by chanting the Hare Kåñëa mantra and rendering devotional service unto Çré Kåñëa. All glories unto the lotus feet of my Spiritual Master, who is a bona fide representative of Hari.
Eternally, Your loving servant,
Saraladevé Däsé
(ISKCON Los Angeles)
Pauline
Gardenia flowers! How fortunate you are to surround the neck of one so pure. But I am so fallen; I can only worship from afar. Gaze upon His merciful smile-knowing all. To see His lotus feet dance invites you to join in His ecstasy. His lips chant the holy name of Hari for all to hear. And His voice! Oh! Such nectar ripples from His never ending repertoire of transcendental knowledge. Çréla Prabhupäda is the only answer. Accept Him, obey Him, love Him and render service unto Him. All glories to Çréla Prabhupäda.

Pauline
(ISKCON Los Angeles)
Pamela Smith
All glories to our beloved Çréla Prabhupäda, who so kindly blesses our lives with His presence. We owe so much to Him, and yet we so seldom remember what he has given us—a way out of the more and degradation and misery of material existence. Daily we continue to indulge ourselves in nonsense, not caring how much we hurt Him by rejecting His gift. If we could only remember that He is with us always, no matter where His body is, and conduct ourselves the way He wants us to, perhaps we could really learn what it is to be Kåñëa conscious.

Pamela Smith
(ISKCON New Våndävana)
Yaçodänandana Däsa
O Guru
You've shown me how to see
everything that can be-
a devotee, a tree, a bee-
as a spiritual spark.
On a nice sunny day,
while I was searching a way
to become fully happy,
I saw them in the park.
There was the picture of a blue boy,
in front of whom everybody danced in joy,
and the picture of an Indian sage,
dressed like people of Vedic age.
I went on chanting,
                 dancing
         and eating…
day after day-
week after week-
month after month-
But it's on that day,
O Divine sage, 
that you've extracted these teeth,
these teeth which are not at all sweet.
The poisonous teeth keep us from the feet
of the reservoir of all that is sweet:
GOVINDA
Thank You, Çréla Prabhupäda-
and accept my eternal service because you've extracted the material vice.
Yaçodänandana Däsa
(ISKCON Los Angeles)
Kanupréya Däsa
My dear Çréla Prabhupäda, You are dancing with the six Gosvämés on the bank of the Yamunä, listening to the véëä of Närada Muni and singing songs of Våndävana. Please let me dance at Your lotus feet.

Kanupréya Däsa
(ISKCON Detroit)
Tom
My dear Çréla Prabhupäda, to you owe my entire existence, for without you I would still be in a most wretched condition. Having no qualifications as a devotee, I do not understand how I have come into your association. You are so merciful to have brought such a wretched being as myself this very nice Hare Kåñëa mantra. You have given so much, and in return I have given you nothing. Such insincerity and disbelief are not fitting before a spiritual master such as yourself. O Çréla Prabhupäda, please accept my most unworthy and humble obeisances, the most fallen and wretched of all the devotees.

Tom
(ISKCON Chicago)
Satyabrata Däsa
Insignificant worm I am,
	To begin to speak of one
		so high–Prabhupäda!
Lover of God, Kåñëa is blue,
Lover of God, yes, that is 
		you–Prabhupäda!
You say to repeat His holy name,
	Sing His glory
		and chant His fame,
And to this best love will come
	And melt this laden heart
		so burdensome–Prabhupäda!
Your mercy alone can pull me away
	from these dreadful claws of
		material stay.
Birth and death is Mäyä's song,
		Misery to suffer, No! this
	tune is wrong!
Save me! Save me!
		This I pray.
O Prabhupäda!
	You're the only way!
Perfection of life, so sublime,
	Is to render you service 
		pure an sublime–Prabhupäda!
Again and again, just let me lie
	prostrate at the lotus-like feet
	of my beloved Guru Mahäräja–Prabhupäda!
Satyabrata Däsa
(ISKCON Tokyo)
Paramänanda Däsa Adhikäré
Çréla Prabhupäda, please accept my most humble obeisances at Your transcendental lotus feet. You make me feel so humble because against Your glowing purity my dirty heart stands out. You are the fire of devotional service, and Your association makes me feel warmly packed up tight at the lotus feet of the Lord eternally. Your grace overwhelms all fears due to the bodily concept of life. You are full of causeless mercy for all living beings equally. Your example has saved many, many fallen souls from the grasp of the mäyä witch. Your knowledge is inconceivable to dullards like me. I am an unworthy burden on Your sweet self.
Your servant,
Paramänanda Däsa Adhikäré
(ISKCON New Våndävana)
Bahuläçva Däsa
The spiritual master is to be honored as much as the Supreme Lord because of His being the mist confidential servitor of the Supreme Lord.

The spiritual master comes, out of His causeless mercy, to bring us the message of Kåñëa and by calling down His rain of mercy, He extinguishes the blazing fire of material desires.
In material life our hearts are always burning with desires. Our minds reeling, our senses out of control, we are being carried down the royal road to hell.
What hope is there fore such fellow souls outside the shelter of a pure devotee.
Therefore, O my Lord Çré Kåñëa, let me fall down at his lotus feet and with humility at heart let me be beg to be engaged in His service birth after birth. For so fortunate am I to have the association of the message carrier of Lord Caitanya Mahäprabhu.
Therefore, I offer my respectful obeisances unto my spiritual master who is a bona fide representative of Hari.

Bahuläçva Däsa
(ISKCON Berkeley)
John Ivey
I offer my respectful obeisances unto your lotus feet. I am glad I came to Kåñëa consciousness. By your mercy I came to Kåñëa consciousness. You are so merciful to bring me from mäyä. All glories to Çré Guru and Gauräìga! Haribol!

John Ivey
(ISKCON New Våndävana)
Åñikumära Däsa Brahmacäré
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...Kåñëa consciousness in the western world. Çréla Prabhupäda is the authorized äcärya coming in disciplic succession from Lord Kåñëa Himself and is freely distributing the perfection of life-devotional service. Advancement in Kåñëa consciousness is proportionate to our surrender to His Divine Grace. Surrender means to follow the instructions of our spiritual master cent percent, without any interpretation or personal motivation. So the mercy of the spiritual master is there for everyone but if we do not surrender unconditionally, we cannot advance, as much as the sun is distributing its light everywhere equally, but if we stay indoors how can we receive the sunlight? So let us now give up all material consideration and surrender fully at the lotus feet of His Divine Grace.

Åñikumära Däsa Brahmacäré
(ISKCON New York)
Jayänanda Däsa
O Çréla Prabhupäda, I'd sunk so low!
Such a wretched and miserable soul.
Burning up in illusions heat,
Lord Kåñëa bought me to Your lotus feet.
Çréla Prabhupäda, You're brave and strong,
Alone restoring a world gone wrong,
Boldly marching on and on,
Preaching and chanting the divine song.
O Çréla Prabhupäda! It's only You
Who can save this ignorant puffed up fool.
I deserve a million births in a horrible place,
But I pray eternally to Your Divine Grace.
I was no more alive than a piece of stone
Until You taught me the holy song.
By Your mercy You're accepting so many souls
And showing us all how to go back home.
All glories to You, Çréla Prabhupäda,
Pure soul on this planet.
Death and the grave is what we fared
Had it not been for Your Divine Grace.
Jayänanda Däsa
(ISKCON San Francisco)
Närada Muni Däsa
For an eternity I had forgotten who I am. Just live and enjoy the life span covered by darkness and illusion. I thought I was wise, always seeking to end the confusion. What is Truth? What are lies? Then You come to the western world to reclaim the lost souls. You told me who I am and planted the most glorious seed of devotional service in my aching heart. Prabhupäda, my beloved spiritual master, one million times a day I should prostrate myself at Your lotus feet. Your presence is the light of millions of suns, which give light causelessly even to the darkest of places, such as my soul. Like the wind carries the fragrance of a rose, Your causeless mercy fills the air with the nectar of devotion, giving shelter to the world-weary travelers. Let this contaminated soul cling always to Your lotus feet. Let the mirror of my mind always reflect on Your words and forms, and please allow this lustful body to be eternally engaged in Your transcendental loving service. You are the purifying process of God realization. You are remembrance of Kåñëa. His dearmost friend and intimate servant. You are forcing my sleeping self to awaken to the promise I made in the womb. My dear Lord Çré Kåñëa, You are everything. Please allow me through the grace of Your pure devotee to always serve You. Prabhupäda, I love You. Hare Kåñëa, Hare Kåñëa, Kåñëa Kåñëa, Hare Hare, Hare Räma, Hare Räma, Räma Räma, Hare Hare.
Thank You, Çréla Prabhupäda.

Närada Muni Däsa
(ISKCON Los Angeles)
Munibunda Däsa
O Çréla Prabhupäda, on my knees I beg You to please accept my most humble obeisances. I know only You as my master, just as a dog lying half dead in the street accepts the person who has given shelter to the animal and nursed it back to life. Similarly, You have lifted me out of this miserable condition of life and allowed me to take shelter at Your divine lotus feet. But I am such a wretched soul that I have not accepted Your mercy. Therefore I beg You to please bless me with genuine desire to serve You.
You Divine Grace is so great that You are offering pure love of Kåñëa to the lowest of mankind, myself!
Although I have no qualifications nor have I performed any pious deeds, You have benedicted me into the ocean of Your causeless mercy, the holy name Hare. My life belongs to You my spiritual master, for I have no other way of repaying Your Divine Grace other than offering my unworthy self as Your menial servant. Please be so kind as to accept me.
I will accept any way You will handle me.
Your eternal loving servant,

Munibunda Däsa
(ISKCON San Francisco)
Jambavaté Däsé
My dear father Çréla Prabhupäda
Languishing in darkness I have played
In heedless wanton and senseless ways.
Seeking to gratify my senses only,
I have wandered weak and lonely
So many careless thoughtless days.
O my sweet father master, Jayate!
Jayate golden saintly sun of mercy.
Without Your benediction smile,
Without Your cares for fallen souls,
The cold sword death would cut us down
To cast us deep in the dark dungeon of hell.
But by Your mercy all is saved.
There is a chance, our only chance,
To see the light of day.
So kindly take me deeper, Prabhupäda, 
In the service of the holy name,
That all souls may know Your shelter.
If only we can serve You.
What can I say? Helplessly I am in disarray,
Only hoping for some way
To be useful at Your feet,
Never able to repay Your causeless grace.
Golden in Kåñëa's radiant smile,
You are dancing as a cowherd boy.
So kindly help us sing Your glories far and wide,
O saint among the highest.
Appreciation I have not for
Your unending river of prefect love,
Just help us sing the praises of some
Sweet sounds of the Golden Vaiñëava,
The mercy incarnate of Lord Caitanya and Nityänanda.
Kindly help us chant Your glories
In the sweet and holy names.
By Your mercy I humbly beg You
Lift this burden of opposite nescience
Just so this poor tongue can always be
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All glories to Çréla Prabhupäda, who is lifting from our eyes Mäyä Devé's veil of illusion.
All glories to Çréla Prabhupäda, who is guiding our feet on the path of perfection of life.
All glories to Çréla Prabhupäda, who is waking us up to Kåñëa, although we have been asleep for millions of years, birth after birth.
All glories to Çréla Prabhupäda, the giver of real knowledge.
All glories to Çréla Prabhupäda, who is constantly engaged in chanting the holy names of Hare Kåñëa.
All glories to Çréla Prabhupäda, whose loving devotion to Kåñëa is awakening the dormant love of God in everyone's heart.
All glories to Çréla Prabhupäda, who has given us the most precious jewel-Kåñëa.
All glories to Çréla Prabhupäda, who has instilled in us the desire to spread the holy name.
All glories! All glories! to His Divine Grace A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami.
Your most worthless servant,

Jambavaté Däsé
Arundhuti Däsé
All Glories to Çré Guru and Gauräìga!!!

Dear Çréla Prabhupäda,
Please accept my most humble obeisances at Your transcendental lotus feet. You have left Våndävana and come to this terrible place full of drugs, illicit sex, and sinful activities in general, where everybody's life is based simply on sense gratification. But Your mercy is so great that You have brought us to Vaikuëöha. You have taught us so well that these bodies are not meant for pleasing our senses, but that they should be used in the service of our dearmost Lord, Çré Kåñëa. O Çréla Prabhupäda, if it wasn't for You, we would still be lost in the ocean of nescience, we would still be ignorant of our eternal loving relationship with Çré Kåñëa. Before You came, we had nothing, and now we have everything. O Çréla Prabhupäda, by Your grace, we have no need for any fancy foodstuffs, clothing, or shelter, for we now have Hare Kåñëa, the mahä-mantra. All glories, all glories to You, our divine spiritual master, our father, our king, our everything. All glories to You, Çréla Prabhupäda.
Begging to remain You servant,

Arundhuti Däsé
(ISKCON Boston)
Terry
All glories to Çréla Prabhupäda!
The merciful spiritual master has come and given me everything. I was searching for nothing but my own enjoyment, but through Kåñëa's mercy He has come and grabbed me out. He has given me true life and forced me to see the death. The perfected being, the merciful spiritual master, distributing mercy, has seen fit to let it extend to the lowest regions so that it may touch my head. Truly He has extended a shaft of light through the darkest regions, just so that it could guide the most fallen back to home. This shaft of light is the holy name of Kåñëa, the Absolute Truth. Being the prime distributor of Kåñëa's mercy He is offering to everyone. This must be so, or surely it would not have extended this far down. Truly He is the pure vehicle of the mercy of Kåñëa. The perfect and divine spiritual master has come and taken me like a tree and shaken off the leaves, the temporary shelter, so that we must take shelter at His divine lotus feet. Just let me be humble enough to sincerely offer all glories to Çréla Prabhupäda.

Terry
(ISKCON  San Francisco)
Trevor
O Çréla Prabhupäda, you are like the most beautiful flower attracting the honeybees; we the ignorant fallen souls are the honeybees; attracted to your most effulgent self, giving to us the pure nectar that you have gathered from the transcendental lotus feet of the Supreme Lord Kåñëa.
Giving us guidance on our way back home to Kåñëa, of who we should be in remembrance, but in our stupidness are always forgetful of, desiring all other things, when He is always the only thing we should be desirous of besides your most inexhaustible mercy and beneficent instructions.
You are the glorious sun that spreads the light on the path we tread, so dark without Your Divine Grace.
I am like a little child shut inside a dark room, and you have come along and opened the door, and the sunlight is shining in, oh so glorious, but in my foolishness I still sit in the corner where it is still rather shady.
Even if I sat down for a million lifetimes and more, could I ever describe in my ignorant and foolish words your most indescribable opulence?
I beg always to hear your divine instructions, pure in every way, and being a most confidential servant of Lord Kåñëa, my master you must stay.
Your servant,

Trevor
(ISKCON London)
Kåñëakanti Däsa Adhikäré
Dearest Çréla Prabhupäda,
Please kindly accept my most unworthy obeisances at your lotus feet. You have forced us from the slumber of material consciousness and have awakened us to our factual position as servants of Çré Kåñëa. You have given us the key to real spiritual life and transcendental bliss by engaging us in Lord Caitanya's movement. You are the eternal father and well-wishing guide for the materially exhausted souls of this planet.
You are the unlimited mercy of Kåñëa personified. Following in the footsteps of Çréla Vyäsadeva, you have given us the torchlight of knowledge, illuminating the path through the darkness of the material world caught in the raging storm of the Kaliyuga.
You are performing the greatest miracle by bestowing kåñëa-prem into our iron hearts. Beloved Çréla Prabhupäda, on this most holy day, I beg to ever remain in your service at your lotus feet.

Kåñëakanti Däsa Adhikäré
(ISKCON Seattle)
Haivilas Däsa
My dearest Çréla Prabhupäda,
You are the benedicting form of Kåñëa, bestowing Your causeless mercy on the fallen souls, ever inviting them to associate with You in the transcendental mellows of rasa, Your surabhi mellow nectar of devotion fills the empty cups of the devotees' hearts desiring love of Kåñëa. Like little puppies just out of their mother's womb, we cuddle at Your benign lotus feet, those thunderbolts of self-realization giving shelter and fulfilling the transcendental desires of all devotees. Sublime consummator, transcendental devotee ever undaunted by mäyä's exhortations, at every moment Your spontaneous love for Hari manifests in the perfection of the mädhurya lélä: the perfection of ecstatic loving exchanges glitters in Your eyes and dances on Your tongue, which like the suka bird sweetens the holy çästras. O master at whose feet all the masters prostrate humbly, You are the energetic, and I one infinitesimal part of your energies. You are the master, I the servant. You are the Lord, I the unwilling slave. Please eternally engage me, for without Your instruction darkness smites the heart of the fallen soul. All glories to Çréla Prabhupäda, the most merciful savior of mankind.
Your eternal slave,

Haivilas Däsa
(ISKCON Paris)
Taruëé Däsi
All glories to Your Divine Loving Grace, Çréla Prabhupäda, may Your divine appearance days in this earth bless us with many, many, many more years.
Your Divine light shines,
and I look at naught but darkness.
Your Divine way leads to truth,
and I choose naught but illusion.
Your Divine Grace gives all knowledge,
and I talk naught but ignorance.
Your Divine Love emanates ecstasy,
and I accept naught but misery.
Your Divine lotus feet pull home to God,
and I clasp to naught but mäyä at death.
Your Divine loving words are wakening tones of bliss,
and I hear naught but nescience.
O sublime and merciful lover of all,
You bless the fallen and lift from the dead.
Be it known that the giver of strength
and of wisdom abides in the heart,
even in this prison.
Be it known that the giver of gifts supreme (Çréla Prabhupäda)
accepts only good and cares not for our sins.
Be he worshipped and praised.
Forever be He praised,
For the gifts of all gifts He gives,
The way to love of Çré Rädhä and Kåñëa.
All glories to Him may they be.
Your worthless servant at Your most sublime lotus feet.

Taruëé Däsi
(ISKCON New Våndävana)
Michael
O Divine One 

O Divine One, I thank You for showing me the way back to Kåñëa.
O Divine One, I thank You for directing me to the lighter path.
O Divine One, I humbly worship You and thank You for showing me the way to perfect peace.

Michael
(ISKCON Los Angeles)
Sudama Däsa Adhikäré
My dearest beloved Guru Mahäräja,
Please accept my most humble of obeisances at Your Divine and golden lotus feet. So merciful are you. So one year ago I was struck as though dumb by the glitter of mäyä's dress thinking this is all in all. Then somehow or other I was fortunate enough to receive your most merciful glance. This glance of yours, these teachings which you teach, all mercy personified. By these you have picked up myself and so many others from the deepest, darkest pits of material existence. For the love that you grace holds for your Guru Mahäräja I wish only to fashion my love for you in this way. I do not think that you could have found anyone as degraded in habit and mind as myself and somehow you have mercifully accepted. Somehow you have sent me here to this foreign land to spread those teachings and transcendental sound vibrations. So it is proven, you have traversed here not by physical presence but rather by your vibrations presence to deliver this merciful science to all. So it is proven, one need not understand another's language to communicate this blissful process but simply vibrate those two syllable KÅÑËA and sing loudly your name. PRABHUPÄDA ÇRÉLA PRABHUPÄDA and the name of GAURÄÌGA LORD CAITANYA! SO simply is this yet who can ever understand your causeless mercy upon us? As it is stated "The spiritual master is receiving benediction form the ocean of mercy; just as the rain cloud pours water on the forest fire to extinguish it, so the spiritual master extinguishes the blazing fire of material existence." Therefore pray to Gauräìga and Nityänanda  that we all may remain your eternal servants and to glorify you, for this debt I am owing, is so much great. My only desire is to rejoice in you. And the only pleasure that I have is to see other rejoice and drown in your causeless mercy.
Your most unworthy disciple,

Sudama Däsa Adhikäré
(ISKCON Tokyo)
Cintämaëi Devé Däsé
My dear Prabhupäda.
You are the only friend I have ever had. You are the only person who could or would help me when I was unhappy or lonely. No one else ever told me about Kåñëa. How could I have ever known about Kåñëa, who is my life and soul, if you had not told me?
Before I met you I was dead, you have given me my very life. So I am eternally indebted to you. Please fulfill the true desire of my soul and let me surrender fully at your feet and serve you forever, and never desire anything else.
Prabhupäda, you are the greatest person in the universe because you are lifting the burden from us who are so sinful and weak. How can we ever thank you? Everyone was unhappy in this universe and although we are small and insignificant you are great enough to care. You are flooding the universe with mercy; and you are making us, your disciples, dance in ecstasy!
This song Hare Kåñëa and dance goes on forever and I can't get enough of it. The more I say the name Hare Kåñëa, the more the hankering increases. Yes, you are giving us the "all beautiful God," Kåñëa; Who is unbelievable and unsurpassed in beauty, mercy and all good traits. The Lord Kåñëa is now on this earth. He is living in the heart of you, Prabhupäda. And the two of you together are destroying the darkness of the world. May I ever prostrate myself at Your lotus feet.
I am your most ungrateful, disobedient and unworthy servant

Cintämaëi Devé Däsé
(ISKCON Tokyo)
Léläçuka Devé Däsé
My beloved spiritual master,
I know it is only by Your grace that I can offer my most humble and respectful obeisances on this most holy day, Vyäsa Püjä.
My spiritual master, Çréla Prabhupäda,
You are so inconceivably kind.
Trying to fathom Your causeless mercy
Is beyond the conception of the limited mind.
The senses are not meant for pleasing
But to use them in Kåñëa's service to learn
To devote life and soul to the spiritual master,
Never wanting anything in return.
I know I must keep my faith in the Lord
That He'll force me to surrender
Completely unto Your lotus feet
With loving service always to render.
I am the most unworthy servant of the most wonderful spiritual master, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupäda
Léläçuka Devé Däsé
(ISKCON Boston)
Yaçodänanda Däsa
Refreshing shower of bliss. Hearing You, O sattvata,  is like nectar coming from Your lips. Associating with You, O Caitanya Guru, is like the glowing sunshine, which makes everything fine. O Prabhupäda, I’m not sincere; I’m not surrendered like Brahmänanda, Satsvarüpa, Viñëujana. But still I’ve got the desire to serve You—O lotus feet Grace.

Yaçodänanda Däsa
(ISKCON Los Angeles)
Ed
Apologies to His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupäda

O Çréla Prabhupäda, kindest of fathers, I, gutted with black sins, heaviest of all, feel myself moving upward. O Çréla Prabhupäda, I will never understand this miracle. Please, Çréla Prabhupäda, keep boosting me up, in spite of my great ingratitude. Please father, I am lost, take me home. I have nothing with which to pay, father, but my eternally worthless obeisances.

Ed
(ISKCON Chicago)
Mike
There is a place far, far away
Where Kåñëa and the gopés play.
All things come from there, it’s true.
Even souls like me and you.
But here we are like babies crying,
For in Kåñëä’s love we are not abiding.
Nothing seemed to soothe us here,
And constantly we live in fear.
When there was no place left to hide,
We fell to the ground and began to cry.
We woke up with empty hearts,
But we could see it was the start,
The start of something pure and clean,
Like water in a rippling stream
Beside the stream there was a boat.
We stepped inside and began to float.
Every passenger happy and young,
And everyone of them sins this song:
Hare Kåñëa Hare Kåñëa
Kåñëa Kåñëa Hare Hare
Hare Räma Hare Räma 
Räma Räma Hare Hare.
We leaned in closer and began to hear,
And sure enough we lost our fear,
We felt such bliss from up above;
There are no bounds in Kåñëa’s love.
And when the captain appeared on deck,
We felt as minute as tiny specks.
The captain is golden;
He shines like the sun.
The captain so merciful
He takes anyone.
Prabhupäda, Prabhupäda, Lover of God Absolute,
Prabhupäda, Prabhupäda, always hearing Kåñëa’s Flute.
So Kåñëa has given us a way to return to Våndävana and resume our natural positions as His eternal servants in the transcendental world so fair.
But only
Through the pure devotee,
A soul who rings true,
But we know Him only as
Our Çré Guru.
HARER NÄMA HARER NÄMA
HARER NÄMAIVA KEVALAM
KALAU NASTY EVA NASTY EVA NASTY EVA
GATIR ANYATHÄ

ALL GLORIES TO ÇRÉLA PRABHUPÄDA!!!
Most fallen servant,

Mike
(ISKCON Los Angeles)
Jayaçré Däsi
All glories to Çréla Prabhupäda. Most holy one, You have saved my whole existence from the poison blackness of impersonalism. You showed that we are all not God, but that He is God, Kåñëa. You are the supreme most beloved servant of Their Lordships Çré Çré Radha-Kåñëa. You have brought in Your glory, truth and wisdom, and the disciplic succession is my guiding light in this darkness of ignorance and oppression.
Most holy one, all glory to Your lotus feet. Most kind, most beautiful, humble holy Father, please save me so wretched and put me in the service of Your servant so that this Maya cannot reach me with her poison clutches. Hari Bol.

Jayaçré Däsi
(ISKCON Honolulu)
Jyotir Mayé
Çréla Prabhupäda, here on Ilavaté Varsa, you are the master at whose feet all masters are assembled, but in Goloka Våndävana who are you? What is your name, cowherd boy, playing in the field with Kåñëa and thousands of cows and calves? As you walk, the grass at once under the touch of your lotus feet regains its consciousness and its love and raises high its fragile limbs. You do not pay attention to the wretched covering of matter, but you see just souls learning how to love, and so you just said, at the sight of my bewildered and speculative mind, “She is like a flower dancing on the wind.”

Jyotir Mayé
(ISKCON London)
David Jakupko
Dear Çréla Prabhupäda,
Please accept my worthless obeisances. By your mercy I have found this Kåñëa consciousness movement. It is so nice: chanting, dancing, taking prasädam, reading your beautiful books. For someone who deserves nothing, I have found everything. By Kåñëa’s mercy I have been blessed with a spiritual master, you, Çréla Prabhupäda, a pure devotee of Kåñëa, who is spreading pure love of God to the most fallen in the Western world, which is full of impersonalism and voidism. I am so fortunate to have you, Çréla Prabhupäda, to show me how to live. Thank you so very much, Çréla Prabhupäda. Çréla Prabhupäda ki jaya!
Your most wretched servant,

David Jakupko
(ISKCON New York)
Herapaïcami Däsé
The spiritual master is receiving benediction from the ocean of mercy. Just as the cloud pours water on the forest fire to extinguish it, so the spiritual master extinguishes the blazing fire of material existence. I offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of such a spiritual master.

All glories to Çréla Prabhupäda. All glories to He who takes away the heavy burden of this material existence. All glories to His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupäda, who came to pick up the fallen souls and take them back to Godhead.

Herapaïcami Däsé
(ISKCON Seattle)
Janet McCoy
O dear Prabhupäda, you smile that does radiate light in the darkness of the universe, the breath of your words that eradicates all misconception and doubt, the caress of your touch that does lighten the burden of heavy sorrow…for those who have forgotten God, you have taken our hands and led us to the lake. You have shown us the Banyan tree and let us hear the sound of its leaves as they rustle in the wind. That I might kneel at your feet and offer my most humble obeisances, I should be blissful in the presence of your auspicious being.
O blessed Çréla Prabhupäda, I see your effulgent smile and hear the breath of your words and feel the caress of your touch…and know that our Lord Kåñëa is gracious, so very merciful, and so very beautiful.
HARE KÅÑËA!!!

Janet McCoy
(ISKCON St. Louis)
William McCoy
I offer my most respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of my spiritual master, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupäda who is always engaged in pure, transcendental loving service to Lord Çré Kåñëa.
Çréla Prabhupäda is the deliverer of the Absolute Truth. Out of his causeless, loving mercy, he is pulling fallen souls out of mäyä, one after another, and taking them all directly back to Godhead with unsurpassable enthusiasm.
I pray that I may offer my lowly and insignificant service to Çréla Prabhupäda eternally. ALL GLORIES TO ÇRÉLA PRABHUPÄDA!!

William McCoy
(ISKCON St. Louis)
Kancanbäla Däsé
I offer my most respectful, prostrated obeisances to dearest Çréla Prabhupäda, who is so dear to Lord Çré Kåñëa on this earth, having taken shelter at His transcendental lotus feet. You, who are the dearmost friend of Kåñëa, by Your causeless mercy, are grabbing us fallen souls and placing us at His sweet lotus feet.
Only by my insignificant, whimsical desires, I am now engaged in this material nescience full of endless calamity from time immemorial. Impersonalism, wars, and anxieties raging, all created by conditioned souls’ polluted desires. This material world is just like a turbulent whirlpool twisting and turning madly, and the conditioned souls like my fallen self are compared to the tiny particles of dust whirling in it. Here and there the bits of glittering but worthless broken glass flying. Yet the senses are drawn to the useless objects, just to get some pleasure out of them. So lower the covered souls sink, to the darkest regions of this whirlpool, attempting to find some way to fulfill the longing, unknown desire.
All seemed so hopeless, how to break free from the twisting whirlpool? I, just a particle of dust, have no strength and was groping in darkness not having a bit of knowledge what to take complete shelter of. Only by Your ever causeless mercy You are pulling me out of this dark whirlpool of birth, death, disease and old age to be situated in my constitutional position; full of bliss, knowledge and eternity, forever serving the Supreme Lord with love.
O Prabhupäda, You are so merciful to me, as I am so wretched and fallen. I can’t conceive and appreciate Your unlimited kindness, showing me how to approach the unapproachable, who is the fulfiller of all desires. No living entity could ever approach Lord Çré Kåñëa on one’s own, but only through You, a pure devotee and dear friend of Kåñëa, can we ever associate with Him. You have given me such a priceless gift, I can never repay.
Never do I want to pray to Your Divine Self for anything, as I am such a completely unworthy servitor, but O Prabhupäda, I only beg to be engaged every second and between every second in Your transcendental loving service and always be immersed in unalloyed bliss. Only by Your limitless grace, could I ever achieve this.
Jayate, Your Divine Loving Grace!
Your loving daughter,

Kancanbäla Däsé
(ISKCON Boston)
Mike
Uttama Adhikäré

All glories to Çréla Prabhupäda, the bringer of light, who has shown us blind men Kåñëa. All my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of Çréla Prabhupäda who has begun chipping away at mäyä’s illusion with his uttama adhikäré consciousness. Now Kåñëa’s reservoir of bliss and knowledge is able to flow freely within all of us. With Çréla Prabhupäda’s grace, Govinda appears clearly to us now, transcendental, all-beautifying, all-purifying, all-powerful, and full of bliss. All glories to Çréla Prabhupäda, the giver of light.

Mike
(ISKCON Boulder)
Maria Suarez
My dear Çréla Prabhupäda, please accept my worthless obeisances unto Your golden lotus feet. Your are always chanting Hare Kåñëa, Hare Kåñëa, Kåñëa Kåñëa, Hare Hare, Hare Räma, Hare Räma, Räma Räma, Hare Hare, and Your hands are busy working for Kåñëa and chanting Hare Kåñëa mantra. And Your mind is always thinking of Kåñëa.
Haribol.
Your servant,

Maria Suarez
(ISKCON New Våndävana)
Janet Naysmith (Mrs.)
As a lonely child bathes in the shadows of springtime, so do I bathe in the warmth of you love enshrouding me softly like the soft touch of a lotus petal.
On the shore of the material world I am rendered vulnerable, and I leave footprints that show traversing of a searching soul lost in the quagmire of mind weeds. Çréla Prabhupäda, you are so merciful upon such an unworthy soul; you are the only person who has ever truly loved me, and I am so encompassed by your smile, by your beautiful eyes, by your voice, the golden voice of the kingdom.
How could anyone leave your service ever? Guru Mahäräja, please forgive my verbal fumblings, for I am so indebted to Your divine lotus feet that I can never explain my gratitude to You. So I crave to take shelter of Your lotus feet and cal Your name in worship.
Your eternal servant,

Janet Naysmith (Mrs.)
(ISKCON London)
Bhurijana Däsa
To the perfect servant of Saravaté Gosvämé Mahäräja

Çréla Prabhupäda, You are factually saving the entire world. Your Divine Grace has sent Your young but faithful servants to all remote and near countries to call everyone back to home, back to Godhead.
I am one of those servants, although not a good one. Çréla Prabhupäda, Your mercy is such that even the most fallen attempts by myself Your Divine Grace has accepted and offer to Your Guru Mahäräja and thusly to Kåñëa. As I examine my life, I find nothing that qualifies me to serve You, Çréla Prabhupäda, I find nothing but Your causeless mercy. My desires are impure, my activities are worse, but Çréla Prabhupäda Your mercy is so strong that even I can be saved simply by allowing Your words to move my heart. If I can be saved then everyone can be saved. So Çréla Prabhupäda, paramahaàsa parivräjakäcärya Prabhupäda, with full faith in Your powers, I beg You to allow me to help You distribute Kåñëa consciousness all over the world, so You can fulfill the desires of Your merciful Guru Mahäräja—So that one day, soon I hope, You will be pleased with me—and that is Kåñëa consciousness, to make You smile.
Your most unworthy servant,

Bhurijana Däsa
(ISKCON Tokyo)
Aravinda Däsa
Most beloved Çréla Prabhupäda,
Please accept my most inadequate obeisances at Your lotus feet on this blessed occasion. Today especially I am thinking how merciful You that from Your lotus feet there is springing forth a great river of mercy which is over flooding the entire universe. You are inviting all the sentient beings to dive in and flow with its current as it enters the nectarean ocean of loving exchange at the lotus feet of Çré Çré Rädhä Govinda. One tide has come, causelessly, and swept me away. Now I am your most unworthy servant, eternally.
Your mercy is there, boundless, for everyone if they just flow with the tide of submissive loving service to You. But there are those of us who are so foolish that we are paddling against the waves or else somehow trying to grab hold of the shore. I am one such rascal. I am desiring to do all kinds of nonsense, but the flow is overwhelming and the rocklike covering shielding my heart is being worn away just as the flow of the river wears away the bank. Çréla Prabhupäda, You are forcing me to become Kåñëa conscious. I am eternally grateful. Please let me love You and serve You forever.

Aravinda Däsa
(ISKCON Boston)
Pradyumna Däsa Adhikäré
We offer our most respectful obeisances unto the holy lotus feet of His Divine Grace Tridaëòi Gosvämé Çré Çrémad A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Mahäräja who is a true and bona fide spiritual master because he is following exactly in the line of disciplic succession from his own beloved spiritual master His Divine Grace Tridaëòi Gosvämé Çré Çrémad Bhaktisiddhänta Sarasvaté Gosvämé Mahäräja. Çréla Bhaktisiddhänta Gosvämé Mahäräja is addressed in prayer as Rüpänuga, or true follower of Rüpa Gosvämé. We find a reference of an incident in the biography of Lord Caitanya Mahäprabhu that shows that Çréla Rüpa Gosvämé knew the mind of Lord Caitanya Mahäprabhu, and this was confirmed by the Lord Himself. The disciplic succession is such that the knowledge and the experience of consciousness of Kåñëa which is passed down, if heard correctly without deviation, remains true and eternally correct. Due to the potency of the disciplic succession, our most beloved spiritual guide and master, Çréla Prabhupäda, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Mahäräja, does now possess the knowledge of the mind of Lord Caitanya. The position of the spiritual master is that by passing down the scriptural instructions of the Supreme Lord and by practicing them at every moment with His whole self, He teaches us how to respond to the desire and will of Lord Caitanya Mahäprabhu. This is the meaning of the disciplic succession. Although we have experience of the knowledge of different meanings of various books and different religious secular communities and organizations, the disciplic succession of knowledge is certainly not merely the passing down of an intellectual understanding of different meanings or procedures for executing rituals, but while including this knowledge, its primary aim is to pass down an actual experience of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. So with the help of the scriptures and information from the heart, we have been trying to properly ascertain the correct position and importance of being a student of the bona fide spiritual master. What does the spiritual master offer that cannot be found at the marketplace? That is the eternal consciousness of the desire and wish of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Caitanya Mahäprabhu, humbly serving Him, without any care for whatever position we may be placed in birth after birth. So we are prepared to offer our most respectful and humble complete obeisances unto the lotus feet of our spiritual master, His Divine Grace Çréla Prabhupäda, for birth after birth after birth of eager and true devotional service.

Pradyumna Däsa Adhikäré
(ISKCON Boston)
Indumaté Devé Däsé
On the surface of this planet earth there is someone so dear to the Lord, Çré Kåñëa, because that someone has taken shelter of the Lord’s transcendental lotus feet. You are that dear person, O Çréla Prabhupäda, and you are most dear to us, your students.
Our minds and hearts were full of dangerous poison like the venom of a snake. The illusory attraction of material energy was eating away our hearts. We were trying to love these bodies and putting all our hopes and dreams into the lusty, temporary affairs of this material world. And we were suffering in mäyä. Only you, Çréla Prabhupäda, can reciprocate with us because you know about Çré Kåñëa, the reservoir of love. Your love for us is pure and completely satisfying to us because it is pure love of God-head that you are distributing to anyone who will accept. So if we can only remember that you are the only person whom we can trust with our love, and that you are the only person who will never hurt us or disappoint us and also that that affection which you have for your students is the most precious possession—if we can only remember you, Çréla Prabhupäda, the servant of His Divine Grace Bhaktisiddhänta Sarasvaté Gosvämé Mahäräja, then we will be on our way back home, back to our Lord’s lotus feet. By your mercy, may we always remember to look upon you with our eyes always filled with tears of joyous love. All glories to you, our divine spiritual preceptor His Divine Grace Tridaëòi Gosvämé Abhay Caran Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupäda Mahäräja. All glories unto you.

Indumaté Devé Däsé
(ISKCON Boston)
Uddhavadäsa Adhikäré
484 of Caitanya Era, month of Håñékeça

“There are two classes of living beings, the fallible and the infallible. In the material world, every entity is fallible, and in the spiritual world, every entity is called infallible” (Bg. 15.16)
It becomes the activity of the materialistic person to follow the precepts of another person who he views to be more elevated in knowledge. However, we must consider: What is knowledge, and how can we recognize one who has knowledge? Many types of knowledge exist. There is knowledge of mechanics, letters, bodies, locations, sequences, positions, thoughts, activities, and countless other categories. But all this knowledge of various descriptions either collectively or individually, cannot solve one very important enigma: Death. All knowledge thus far discovered or invented by materialistic society has not been able to save one of its citizens from the clutches of inevitable death. Doctors have not been able to cut the death out of the liveliest of bodies. Politicians have had no success in spreading eternity in their minute domains. Philosophers, endlessly speculating, cannot think up the magic formula whereby this material body will endure. So the highest form of knowledge would be that which would save one from death. This is known as spiritual science. Obviously the entities of this world have no knowledge of spiritual science because the problem of death still remains. Therefore we may agree that these living entities are fallible. One who has perfect knowledge would know how to save himself and others from death. According to Lord Çré Kåñëa, such a person exists, and we should accept such a person as our beloved spiritual master. Lord Çré Kåñëa furthermore indicates how to recognize the bona fide spiritual master. Bahünäà janmanäm ante jïänavän mäà prapadyante: When one is perfect in knowledge, he surrenders unto Kåñëa. So we can understand that one who has surrendered unto Kåñëa, that is, one who is constantly remembering Him, glorifying Him, serving Him, or teaching about Him, is a man of perfect knowledge—infallible. By the declarations of Kåñëa it is to be understood that one who is surrendered unto Him is not to be considered a material person, but completely spiritual, and we should accept his authority to become perfectly knowledgeable. If we desire to know who our father is, we must accept the authority of our mother, and if our mother is pure she can inform us properly. Likewise, if we desire to know Kåñëa we must accept the authority of a pure devotee of Kåñëa. The true servant of Kåñëa tries to engage every living entity he encounters in the service of Kåñëa either by will, by force, or by slight of tongue, and the true disciple accepts the engagements of the spiritual master as the only purport of his life. His prayer then becomes, “My dear beloved spiritual master, please force me, who am so unwilling, to forsake my pilgrimage to mäyä and to return home by your feet where I belong.” I actually thought that I was worthy to serve you and that you would be pleased with my wonderful activities, and glorifying myself in this way I forgot the purpose of life, to glorify the spiritual master. You forced me to rectify this blunder and now my only hope is that you allow me to always glorify your sacred name.

The most worthless Uddhava däsa Adhikäré, servant of the most qualified His Divine Loving Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupäda.
(ISKCON Boston)
Lalit Kumära Däsa Adhikäré All glories to  Çréla Prabhupäda,
I have been bitten by mäyä, the deadly snake whose fangs of lust and greed have kept me for countless lives in an almost unconscious state of existence. And the deadly venom caters to my foolish mind, only because of my weakness and lack of faith. And you, O dearest spiritual master, have come as a dark rain cloud, full of the ocean of knowledge, to extinguish the blazing fire of material existence and reinstate us in loving devotion to our beloved Lord.  But so weak, bewildered and unfortunate I am that I just can’t seem to get myself to really execute my devotional service to you as wholeheartedly and sincerely as I should. O master of lave and devotion, I am praying for you to help me, but I am a worthless, useless, puffed up pile of stool, and I need your guidance and help so badly. But I am so low that I don’t even give you a chance. If there is anyone as fallen and deluded as I am, then you can surely help him first, but I assure you there is no one who is as fallen as I, nor will there ever be one at any time.
On this most auspicious and glorious day when all your disciples offer their deepest and most respectful obeisances to you and pray for your good health and guidance, I can but only hope that someday my devotion will be as steady and pure as that of your wonderful disciples.
All glories to you, the representative of Çréla Vyäsadeva and kind master of all.

Lalit Kumära Däsa Adhikäré
Madhusüdana Däsa
Çréla Prabhupäda, Mercy Incarnation of the Lord

If one gets the opportunity of hearing, serving or associating with a bona fide spiritual master, a pure devotee, one should know that he is getting the direct mercy and blessing of the Supreme Lord Himself. In this world, at this time, we are so, so fallen that it even takes time to realize our low position, but due to the all-powerful and antiseptic nature of Kåñëa, even a dirt such as myself can be cleaned up by His contact, of this there is no doubt. Just as the all-powerful pure sun evaporates the puddle or urine and purifies the spot and yet does not become dirty itself in the least.
It is for sure that given some time the chanting of Hare Kåñëa, the method of contacting the Supreme pure will awaken everyone to the natural, blissful condition of loving service to God. This is the only pleasure that exists and all other so-called pleasure is just different degrees of pain. The only sources of transcendental pleasure are the pure devotees like the divine, sweet reservoir of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupäda—the lotus feet of whom are much more illuminating than a thousand suns. Serving the spiritual master is the most palatable process of self-realization or spiritual life. And it is so effective that simply by taking it, experimenting like a true scientist to see if it works at all, one can feel the uncommon ecstasy of transcendental service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
My Dear Prabhupäda, I am thinking that I should cooperate with your disciples and make the whole world surrender at your lotus feet, you who are infallibly fixed at the lotus feet of Çré Kåñëa.
I cannot possibly ask you for anything. You have given me much more than I could ever deserve even if I performed millions of years of penances and austerities.
You have given us the unlimited ocean of transcendental nectar—devotional service. It is nice to know that this service is open eternally and also your association. Please accept the most humble obeisances of this worthless servant at your lotus feet.
I remain you loving son,

Madhusüdana Däsa
(ISKCON Boston)
Nandakiçora Däsa Adhikäré
manasa deha geha yo kichu mora
arpinu tuapade nandakishora
maravi rakavi yo ieecha tohara
nitya dasa priat tua adhikara
(Çaraëägati)
O my dear Çréla Prabhupäda, please accept this prayer from Your lowly servant, and I pray to Your lotus feet that I may someday be attracted to fulfilling its conditions. You have already done so because Your Divine Grace is fully surrendered in love to the lotus feet of Ñré Çré Rädhä Kåñëa. I thank Your Divine Grace for also giving me the opportunity to do so.
Your lowest servant,

Nandakiçora Däsa Adhikäré
(ISKCON Providence)
David Hanson
Dearest Prabhupäda,
Forgive me; I’m so ignorant I can’t even tell you how much I love you. I pray you will help me completely surrender unto your most merciful lotus feet. Thank you!
Your eternal servant,

David Hanson
(ISKCON Atlanta)
Hådayänanda Däsa Brahmacäré
All glories unto His Divine Grace
The ever-Lord of my heart
Whose bold hands kindly unknit
The soul’s misguided material embrace
Whose clear words cut off this false affair
With some heartless mental midnight void
Whole love and glory crisscrosses the earth
Delivering God to those who dare
O thou eternal agent of Caitanya
Whose heart can never stray from His heart
Who devastates the lie of formless gods
And hurls us at the feet of dear Gauräìga

Hådayänanda Däsa Brahmacäré
Jayädvaita Däsa
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...the mercy of the spiritual master is that if we simply accept his teachings and execute our activities in Kåñëa consciousness under his direction, we will be freed from material reactions and be promoted to the association of Kåñëa. 
“But those who, out of envy, disregard these teachings and do not practice them regularly are to be considered bereft of all knowledge, befooled and doomed to ignorance and bondage.” (Bg. 3.32)
 We must surrender. We must accept everything the spiritual master says, completely, without question or hesitation. As soon as one neglects to follow the instructions of the spiritual master, he is fallen. My spiritual master knows everything, and therefore I must execute his instructions without hesitation. If we think that we are better than Çréla Prabhupäda, independent of Çréla Prabhupäda, as good as Çréla Prabhupäda, on the same level as Çréla Prabhupäda, or anything other than the eternal microscopic servitor of the lotus feet of Çréla Prabhupäda, then we are doomed. 
guru-kåñëa-kåpäya päya bhakti-lata-béja: By the mercy of the spiritual master and by the mercy of Kåñëa, one can enter into devotional service and go back to Godhead, back to home. Kåñëa is all merciful, and Çréla Prabhupäda is all merciful, but we have to be all-receptive, all-eager and all-anxious to be always engaged in his service. “…when the spiritual master sees the genuine desire of the disciples he automatically blesses the disciple with genuine spiritual understanding.” Çréla Prabhupäda is always ready to distribute the mercy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but we must be sufficiently anxious to receive it.
When will I cry to engage only in Çréla Prabhupäda’s service?
When will I render pure devotional service to the purest devotee of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the supreme abode and purifier?
When will I be liberated from my own self-interest and desire only to execute the mission of my spiritual master, whose teachings can liberate anyone, whose face is like a lotus flower, and who is the eternal servitor of Lord Mukunda?
When will I always remember Çréla Prabhupäda, never forgetting him?
Çréla Prabhupäda is the complete reservoir of the Complete Whole. When will I surrender unto him completely?
When will I stop being puffed up at what I think I’ve done and glorify the all-glorious activities of Çréla Prabhupäda, the eternal servitor of Lord Urukrama?
Çréla Prabhupäda is pleasing everyone because he satisfies the senses of Govinda. When will I stop trying to please my own senses and only desire to give pleasure to him?
When will my only pleasure be to serve the lotus feet of my beloved spiritual master, who is the eternal pleasure of Lord Nityänanda?
When will I surrender my senses to the control of my spiritual master, the servant of the Gosvämés and Lord Håñikeça Himself?
When will I lose the taste for mäyä and be attracted only to serving Çréla Prabhupäda, whose pure devotion can attract even Lord Kåñëa?
I pray that my only identity may be as an eternal servitor of his holy lotus feet.

Jayädvaita Däsa
(ISKCON Boston)
Karunamayé Devé Däsé
Please Prabhupäda, accept my most humble and very, very unworthy obeisances at Your blooming lotus feet. By Your grace only can one be freed from the duality and frustration born of this material world, and again engage my fallen self in the service of Çré Çré Rädhä and Kåñëa. By Your causeless mercy, so many fallen souls are now regaining their memories and beginning to understand that this mind and false ego entangles one more and more to this weary material world. But by the sweet chanting of Hare Kåñëa the living entity becomes so enlivened and again gets a taste of it natural blissful state of existence. So even here one can revive pure love for Çré Kåñëa the beautiful cowherd boy, then no longer is this place considered to be miserable, but it is Våndävana where Kåñëa is playing so nicely with His transcendental companions.
You are so kind to us Prabhupäda for giving us Kåñëa and by Kåñëa’s mercy He has sent from the spiritual sky Your Divine Self. Your children have been showered with an endless amount of good fortune. You have so kindly saved us from leading the lives of cats and dogs where there is total confusion and ignorance. If we hadn’t been guided by Supersoul to bring us into contact with the pure devotee of the Lord Your children would be descending into very hellish conditions. But now look, we are becoming joyful again. Please Prabhupäda help me develop a seriousness for Kåñëa consciousness and a service attitude. I’m finally feeling a bit of gratefulness and much unworthiness for this gift of love of Godhead. I have given nothing and You have gifted myself with the most perfect knowledge, Çré Kåñëa, the Absolute Truth.
All glories to Your Divine Loving Grace.

Karunamayé Devé Däsé
(ISKCON Berkeley)
Bali Mardan Däsa Brahnacäré
Three Songs in Praise to Çréla Prabhupäda

Constant Journey
1. This life is a constant journey,
Çréla Prabhupäda the guiding star.
We can see the way before us.
Though the goal is very far.
2. With the real Bhagavad-gétä
We have started on the road.
Wonder why the mundane wranglers
Have to carry such a load.
3. And with Prabhupäda to guide us
We will traverse every curve
On the path to Kåñëaloka,
Where Kåñëa is always served.
4. This life is a constant journey
Back to Kåñëa, back to God.
We are traveling on the highway
That is lit by Prabhupäda.
Kåñëa All the Time
1. One thought’s on my mind now;
It’s made my life sublime.
Çréla Prabhupäda said there’s nothing more—
It’s Kåñëa all the time.
2. Kåñëa’s the enjoyer,
At last there’s no more void
Since Prabhupäda has said
That we are the enjoyed
3. Çréla Prabhupäda’s our teacher
He’s leading us away
From the endless miseries 
We used to face each day.
4. Distressed and curious,
A piece of glass was all we saw,
But Prabhupäda accepted us,
He gave us something more.
5. Çréla Prabhupäda’s our savior,
He gave back the sight
Of the jewel within the lotus;
He gave us back our lives.
His Divine Grace
The earth is torn with material anxiety;
The young are rioting against their society.
One person, a great soul, has come from above
To sing about Kåñëa, to give divine love.
He is dancing in ecstasy, eyes all aglow,
Coming among us, so God we may know.
His lips are a fountain of nectarine bliss;
Mundane pleasures we never miss.
For He is providing a life of perfection
To learn to serve Kåñëa, to beg His protection.
Prabhupäda has come, mäyä has run,
Unable to stand in front of the sun.
He is mahätmä the servant most dear,
Bringing souls back to Godhead, shattering fear.
He does not care for bodily designation,
French, American, Japanese, or Canadian.
All he drags, out of the cage
Of birth, death, disease and old age.
He is the science of the eternally living
To raise the most wretched, to be all-forgiving.
Him we must offer beautiful prayer.
We must not forget Him. He is most dear.
His remembrance brings love, a quivering feeling.
The material disease is thus seen to be healing.
To love Him is the most valuable of all possessions,
To taste the infinite mercy of the disciplic succession.
Thus do we bow down, thus we are singing
To Him who is carrying us back to the living.

Bali Mardan Däsa Brahnacäré
(ISKCON Sydney)
Denise 
Haribol  Hare Kåñëa  nama om viñëu-pädäya Nitai (I don’t know what to say, except Govinda jaya jaya.) Hare Kåñëa

Denise (5 years old)
(ISKCON New Våndävana)
Déneça Candra Däsa Adhikäré & Kåñëadevé Däsé
Vyäsa Püjä Offering

I am offering my most respectful obeisances to the lotus feet of my spiritual master, who is most dear to Kåñëa on this earth due to his taking shelter of the lotus feet of the Lord.
I am offering my most respectful obeisances to the lotus feet of my spiritual master, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupäda, who is not only the representative of Çré Kåñëa, but who is also representing Çréla Vyäsadeva. In this way Çréla Prabhupäda’s mercy is increased. Çréla Vyäsadeva is an empowered incarnation of Çré Kåñëa who took mercy on the fallen souls of this age of Kali and supplied us nectar in the form of the four divisions of the original Veda, the Upaniñads, Vedänta-sütra, Mahäbhärata (containing Bhagavad-gétä), and the most spotless puräna Çrémad-Bhägavatam. In this great Çrémad-Bhägavatam the story is related of Vyäsadeva’s despondency despite his elevated position of realization of the truth, and how his spiritual master, Närada Muni, cleared away his despondency by instructing Çréla Vyäsadeva to write the narration of the transcendental pastimes of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Çré Kåñëa. Thus Çrémad Bhägavatam is a torchlight of real knowledge to the conditioned souls in dark ignorance.
I am offering my most respectful obeisances to the lotus feet of my spiritual master, Çréla Prabhupäda, who is also a representative of Çréla Çukadeva Gosvämé and Çréla Suta Gosvämé. Çréla Çukadeva Gosvämé was a liberated soul even before birth, and so he was satisfied within himself. But when he heard the Çrémad-Bhägavatam from his father Çréla Vyäsadeva, his heart became attracted and melted. At once he went out from his home and spoke Çrémad-Bhägavatam, the most sublime and perfect teaching, to King Parékñit. Suta Gosvämé heard this sublime literature, rendered sweeter by the lips of Çréla Çukadeva, and then Süta spoke Çrémad-Bhägavatam to the sages gathered at Naimiñäraëya. The pious souls gathered at Naimiñäraëya were in perplexity as to what would most benefit the conditioned living beings in this iron age of quarrel and destruction. After intelligently submitting questions to Süta Gosvämé and submissively hearing the answers, they concluded that Çrémad-Bhägavatam is the shelter of the fallen souls in this age. Çréla Prabhupäda has given us Çrémad-Bhägavatam in English, and to further sweeten it, He has further demonstrated the answer to the existential problems in this quarrelsome world by his own example—in teachings and in actions.
I am offering my most respectful obeisances to the lotus feet of my spiritual master, Çréla Prabhupäda, who is representing the mist munificent of all avatäras, Lord Caitanya. “In the modern age Lord Çré Caitanya Mahäprabhu preached the cult of Çrémad-Bhägavatam by practical demonstration.” (Introduction to Çrémad-Bhägavatam) In other words, Lord Caitanya ordered that the cult of Çrémad-Bhägavatam throughout His life. [?] Lord Caitanya overflooded the earth with pure love of God and began the saìkértana movement of congregational chanting of Hare Kåñëa, Hare Kåñëa, Kåñëa Kåñëa, Hare Hare, Hare Räma, Hare Räma, Räma Räma, Hare Hare.
I am offering my most respectful obeisances to the lotus feet of my spiritual master, Çréla Prabhupäda, who is the most willing and fearless servant of all the great äcäryas, and who in great love for his spiritual master, Çréla Bhaktisiddhänta Sarasvaté Gosvämé Prabhupäda, brought the entire saìkértana movement, the entire Brahma-sampradäya, to the barren Western countries. Çréla Prabhupäda is always engaged in furnishing us with the most beautiful and precious jewels, and He has made us wealthy. First, He has given us the mahä-mantra, Hare Kåñëa, Hare Kåñëa, Kåñëa Kåñëa, Hare Hare, Hare Räma, Hare Räma, Räma Räma, Hare Hare., which is itself all-attractive and inclusive of all spiritual opulence's, and He has given us this divine philosophy, as it is, ever fresh, unchanged, eternal and liberating in nature. Çréla Prabhupäda has instructed us all, as His disciples, to continue spreading this Kåñëa consciousness movement. This was the instruction of His spiritual master.
I offer my humble obeisances to my God brothers and God sisters who are always engaged in rendering service to Çréla Prabhupäda by carrying out His sincerest desire to distribute this most natural of occupations, loving service to Çré Çré Rädhä-Kåñëa. As for myself, I am hoping to take birth again and again in the material world until I have given some service to Çréla Prabhupäda.
Our respectful obeisances are unto You, O spiritual master, servant of Sarasvaté Gosvämé. You are kindly preaching the message of Lord Caitanya-deva and delivering the Western countries, which are filled with impersonalism and voidism.

Déneça Candra Däsa Adhikäré & Kåñëadevé Däsé
(ISKCON Washington, D.C)
John Barry
O Çréla Prabhupäda, you have come to guide us on how to know, love and serve the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

John Barry
(ISKCON St. Louis)
Kapiladeva Däsa brahmacäré
All glories to our spiritual master, Çréla Prabhupäda. He is so mercifully delivering us from this ocean of birth and death to which we are so attracted.
He has pointed out to us the limits of mundane science and its failure to answer the fundamental problems of mankind.
Ha has given the cup of nectar of devotion to almighty Kåñëa from which to drink.
His truth, the truth absolute which he brings, is vanquishing the darkness of nescience which grips the Western industrial nonsense society.
He is a breath of fresh air in the smog of delusion.
His Divine Grace has shown us how to dance and sing our way back into the kingdom of God.
We fallen souls deluded by the material energy offer our humble gratitude unto this beloved enlightened soul who is delivering us from the bondage of karma.

Kapiladeva Däsa brahmacäré
(ISKCON Seattle)
Kasturika Däsé
Çréla Prabhupäda, Çréla Prabhupäda,
Has opened up His heart so free,
His love flows like the waves of the sea,
this worthless wretch with heart impure
falls prostrate upon our mercy shore.
Çréla Prabhupäda, Çréla Prabhupäda,
Radiating divine grace
Throughout this thirsty human race
O refuge from this sin we’ve sown,
Your limitless glory remains unknown.
Çréla Prabhupäda, I am so lost and alone on this planet without you. O Lord Nityänanda I plead that You will give me unflinching strength to stay by his most holy divine lotus feet, without which my existence is certainly doomed. I shall never walk in the light of devotional service to the only Shepherd who has come home to take his surrendered children home, for my mind is most wayward, and I am the most fallen.
Eternally ashamed of my inadequate obeisances,

Kasturika Däsé
(ISKCON Boston)
Jack Prabhu
Angel of mercy we cried unto Thee—
Only in Your service will we ever be free
And swift the mother comes for the child
Bringing rain for our hearts so burning and wild
You came dearest  friend and sheltered our soul.
We came into Your arms, our last hope was gone
Having fallen so low we just can’t go on
And You will never depart and leave us alone
Until we all know His love and live in His home.
You smile dearest friend and shelter our soul
Your face all aglow from His light within
Lights up the darkness we live once again
Our lives we have offered up into Your hands
Sing always of His beauty, praise His sacred land
You dance dearest friend and shelter our soul

Jack Prabhu
(ISKCON Berkley)
Gopénätha Däsa Brahmacäré
His Divine Grace, His loving face, His immortal taste, is leading us back to Godhead, out of mäyä’s snare Such direction is the prime benediction. For those who relish only birth and death, deprived of Kåñëa, we seek that which is not. Unknowingly we try to feed dead bodies in so many ways. Armed with the ammunition of avidyä, we simply learn how to exploit, not knowing the progressive values of existence, which cannot be given to us by those who don’t know them.
Their solutions to escape dualities are simply entangling. Therefore, one should take shelter at the divine lotus feet of Çréla Prabhupäda. He can erase all false designations of false prestige. Nirnana moha! Become free from illusion’s involvement, which hampers us from knowing our real spiritual oneness or total agreement with the imperishable, knowledgeable, and blissful personality of the spiritual realm, who is beyond the gaze of sensuous inspection or the purview of the deluded speculators. Çréla Prabhupäda alone knows Kåñëa. Let us stop culturing garbage and surrender in unalloyed devotion to Him. All glories to Çréla Prabhupäda, whose inconceivable mercy is our life and soul.

Gopénätha Däsa Brahmacäré
(ISKCON Columbus)
Jayatértha Däsa Adhikäré
Beloved Çréla Prabhupäda, this message, this spirit of devotion, so sublime and pure, has come through the channel of Your Divine Mercy. This truth, eternal, full of bliss and knowledge, long covered by the darkness born of ignorance, is now revealed through the agency of Your Divine Understanding. You are uncontaminated, perfect in beauty, strength, humility and all divine qualities.
Äcärya-deva, You are the knower of the Vedas, You are the deliverer of the fallen souls, and You are not impersonal. You are a vibrant, perfect and glorious person.
All glories to the all-merciful Çré-Guru, You are the only shelter of my crippled and depraved self, and Your lotus feet are the end-all and be-all of my life.

Jayatértha Däsa Adhikäré
(ISKCON Los Angeles)
Kåñëa Viläsiné Devé Däsé
To Çréla Prabhupäda,
You have pulled me out of the swirling morass of nescience I was drowning in and forced me to bow down at Your soothing lotus feet. All glories to You, Çréla Prabhupäda, my most merciful spiritual master, who is selflessly spreading the divine mercy of Çré Caitanya Mahäprabhu. You have out of Your causeless compassion, dipped us in the ocean of bliss and eternity and pierced our dark shell of ignorance with the light of pure knowledge. You have given what no other could give, the beautiful lotus-eyed one with peacock feathers and ankle bells, the blue cowherd boy who charms the entire cosmos with the sweet sound of His flute.
You have kindly made approach to Lord Çré Kåñëa so easy for the most fallen and desolate. You give us prasädam, dancing, chanting and ask only our life and soul. Please, Çréla Prabhupäda, engage me always in service of You lotus feet; never let me fall away from Your divine self. You are the only light that can safely guide us through this raging ocean of Kali.
Please accept my most humble obeisances, Çréla Prabhupäda, for You are most dear to Çré Kåñëa upon this earth, having taken shelter at His lotus feet. You have delivered to the most arrogant and miserable of beings the full nectarine of in the form of these holy names, Hare Kåñëa, Hare Räma. Please, therefore, let us open our hearts wide and accept Your causeless mercy.

Kåñëa Viläsiné Devé Däsé
(ISKCON San Fransisco)
Dayänanda Däsa
All Glories to Çréla Prabhupäda—Jagat-Guru

yasya prasädäd bhagavat-prasädo
Yes, You are pulling us up, Çréla Prabhupäda.
By Your Divine Grace
We are receiving Kåñëa’s grace.
Thank you , Çréla Prabhupäda, for this divine present;
You are giving causeless knowledge and detachment.
Once bound up by lust and greed,
We’ve been given by you the key whereby we’re freed.
Lost in the desert if empiric means,
You are flooding us with the full nectarine—
Ocean of bliss.
Forced by impersonal rationalization
To excuse our sense gratification,
Hauled up by the captain of the ship across this material ocean,
You’ve given us this love and devotion.
Your love is flowing freely
From Your heart and from Your personality.
So just see, it is truly
A fact that Prabhupäda sarvam iti.
Prabhupäda, just see, Your heart’s desire
Is cooling off our raging minds,
Putting out this forest fire
And benedicting all mankind.
It’s Your saìkértana
That’s our life and soul—
Spreading it everywhere is our goal.
I am cultivating love of You,
That is why I must do Your instruction,
And the instruction is You.
Now my humble request
Is just engage me in more service.
Please accept my obeisances at the feet of Your divine form, name, activities, and words, Çréla Prabhupäda.

Dayänanda Däsa
(ISKCON Los Angeles)
Nandarané Devé Däsé
I was standing in filth and darkness with my eyes tightly closed and my mind unleashed, among the ruins of humanity and its death productivity, pretending myself to be the controller and enjoyer of all in my encompassment.
And then You came, Çréla Prabhupäda, and forced open my eyes with Your torchlight of knowledge, burning away all my misgivings with the intensity of bhakti-prema.
You have cleansed this environment with the sound of the holy name, and purified my activities by the regulations of devotional service, and liberated my soul with Çré Kåñëa saìkértana.
And I am humbling myself at Your lotus feet because You have brought to this world of death one drop of nectar from our eternal home, one glimpse of our beloved lotus-eyed Gopénätha.
My pray is that I may eternally fall down at Your feet and thereby rise up to an understanding of the depth of Your mercy, that Your have left Your beloved Kåñëa simply to retrieve us from the gutter of material existence. And I relish Your activities here even more than the activities of my Lord.
Please, therefore, I beg that You may dwell with us one moment longer, to satisfy our heartfelt craving for some word of our Lord, and quell my rising fear that You may one day go back home and leave me here.

Nandarané Devé Däsé
(ISKCON Los Angeles)
Tosan Kåñëa Däsa
Dearest Çréla Prabhupäda,
Please accept my worthless obeisances at Your lotus feet. I cannot estimate You causeless mercy. You have come just to force us to become Kåñëa conscious. Your are completely pure; not a tinge of material dust covers Your effulgent self. Everything You do is perfect and wonderful. You are the sentient representative of the sentient Supreme. By Your hand, nescience is vanquished. You vigilant, fatherly care keeps us safe from fiery lust. If it were not for You, we would not lift a finger but for mäyä’s sake. Everyone should know that without You, Çréla Prabhupäda, he’s doomed. There is no choice. The jagat guru’s order is life’s only aim, one’s all and all. You, O Divine Loving Grace, possess all the Vaikuëöha qualifications. You dexterously wield all the transcendental weaponry. Your radiant paramhaìsa consciousness melts impersonalism and voidism at a piercing glance. You are our regal Lord, master of the senses.
All glories to You, Çréla Jagat Guru Prabhupäda Mahäräja, the bona fide representative of Hari. I beg to offer my fallen prostrated obeisances to You from all sides eternally. You are Çré Çréla Jagat Guru.
Your most fallen servant,

Tosan Kåñëa Däsa
(ISKCON New York)
Palékä Devé Däsé
I offer my most humble obeisances unto the lotus feet of He who is continuously delivering the conditioned souls from the nightmare of material existence, and distributing the taste of transcendental life.
I offer my most humble obeisances unto the holy lotus feet of His Divine Grace Çréla Prabhupäda, who is so kind that he is forcing me to go back home to that transcendental abode where true pleasure exists.
I pray to Their Lordships Çré Çré Rädhä and Kåñëa that I may always be surrendered to receive Çréla Prabhupäda’s mercy and continually under any condition distribute His mercy freely to humanity. I pray to Her Lordship Rädhäräëé, who is the controller of devotional service, that She will make me a puppet in the service of His Divine Grace. May I develop through His grace a spark of pure sincerity and eternally find all pleasure in the service of my beloved spiritual master.

Your servant
Palékä Devé Däsé
(ISKCON New York)
Vaikuëöhanätha Däsa Adhikäré
All glory unto You, O Çréla Prabhupäda, Jagat-guru. You are picking up the miserable and illusioned souls of Kali yuga and placing them on the highest platform of existence—pure love of God. You are showing everyone the true life of eternal bliss and knowledge in the kingdom of God.

O Çréla Prabhupäda! No one can appreciate You.
Your love goes far, far beyond our view.
You are in Våndävana, in the spiritual sky,
Far, far above the view of our limited eye.
Your every move is the ecstasy of Your love.
Çréla Prabhupäda has been sent from Kåñëa above.
Your presence is the jéva soul’s dearmost jewel,
Even for the most fallen, like me, who is but a fool.
Your presence is so sweet, like transcendental touchstone.
Your lotus feet are our heart’s deepest desire’s home.
From our frustration and despair and belief in void,
You have proven God, by Your radiant love, unalloyed.
O the world should be joyous that You have come.
Why do we not see you? Are we deaf and dumb?
My words can never describe You, O Paramahaàsa, so grand,
But You are so great, for with Lord Kåñëa You stand.
I hereby confess the horrendous acts that I have done.
The greatest offenses I have committed before our holy lotus one.
O Çréla Prabhupäda, present in Your words, You already know
That I am so fallen, that I am so wretched and low.
Just as Näräyaëa would not forgive Durväsä for what he had done.
Forgiveness from Mahäräja Ambaréña could be the only one—
Lord Kåñëa does not forgive offenses at You lotus feet like I have done.
The only person in existence that can forgive me is You—
the all-merciful one.
O Çréla Prabhupäda, my fear is not that I shall take birth in a hellish condition. That would not matter. My fear is that my link with You might be broken by my mad elephant offenses. O Çréla Prabhupäda, please never let me go from You. (Unless I am a hindrance to Your movement. Then make me leave immediately.)

Vaikuëöhanätha Däsa Adhikäré
(ISKCON Boston)
Svarüpa Däsa Brahmacäré
“Let me become a sincere servant of the devotees because by serving them one can achieve unalloyed devotional service unto the lotus feet of the Lord. The service of devotees diminishes all miserable material conditions and develops within one a deep devotional love for the Supreme Personality of Godhead.” (Bhag. 3.7.19)
Under your lotus feet there is shade enough for all fallen souls to take shelter because You are His pure devotee.
From You lotus lips flows an eternal river of nectar from which all may drink and know his glories because You are His pure devotee.
Sometimes You are crying, lotus tears, in love; yes, You are His pure devotee.
Always You are writing, singing, teaching, so that all who care to listen may remember Him; You are most dear unto Him!
You are the only spiritual master because only Your Divine Grace is teaching “Just worship Govinda; always remember Kåñëa.” You are the only way to Him—because You are His pure devotee!
Without Your Divine Grace, I am an orphan. Please accept my worthless service eternally.

Svarüpa Däsa Brahmacäré
(ISKCON Boston)
Babrubahon Däsa Brahmacäré
My dear spiritual master,
Please accept my humblest obeisances unto Your lotus feet, even though I have no right to be in Your presence. 
Çréla Prabhupäda, if only I could do just one simple thing for You my life would be a success, but due to my present condition I am a disgrace to the whole paramparä.
Çréla Prabhupäda, just to think how I let You down is a very sorrowful experience. Even at the time of initiation I have made You grieve because of my presence.
Çréla Prabhupäda, the only thing that I could do is beg You so humbly and with such humility that You should take charge of my life, for I can do nothing by myself. If only You would make me into a tool for Your divine mission, this would be the perfection of my life. So please, my beloved Lord and Master Çréla Prabhupäda, with all humility I am begging You to take charge of my life, for I feel there is no other way.
My dear Çréla Prabhupäda, please accept the unworthy obeisances of Your eternal servitor.

Babrubahon Däsa Brahmacäré
(ISKCON San Francisco)
Amagha Däsa
I offer my most humble respectful obeisances unto the golden lotus feet of He who has plucked me up from afar, taken me under wing, and given me some sight to see that I am blind. I sense that in Him there is such love, that one can know no greater. I mean my most beloved Guru Mahäräja, His Divine and Loving Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupäda.
And I offer Him this feeble poem, which I wrote just before I became His disciple: 

Prabhupäda, Prabhupäda
Living love with golden feet,
I am waiting, tearful, yearning,
For a chance your glance to meet.
I have seen you in your children,
Felt their chanting, dancing love,
Watched their eyes in love transcending,
Known you’ve come here from above.
There is no one near me like you:
You have made me fall and cry.
There is no one living like you
Here and in the spirit sky.
As I write with pouring eyes,
My heart it burns and twists and cries,
“Where are you, father, Prabhupäda?”
I have loved you, but have not.

Amagha Däsa
(ISKCON Tokyo)
Çrilekhadevé Däsé
So long we have slept. So long we have dreamed in nescience. So blind a search within that dream; searching for pieces of broken glass.
And, O Prabhupäda! O precious gem! So gentle a nudge You have given us; so kind a prayer to awaken to His love. You are delivering us from the dark eternal womb of mäyä. Our infant eyes are being forced open by Your all-attractive light. And O such and infinitely loving and merciful father we have found in You!
Please accept my most humble obeisances of the most unworthy among my Godbrothers and sisters.

Çrilekhadevé Däsé
(ISKCON Toronto)
Jamunäcärya
Thinking of the spiritual is just like drowning oneself in the ocean of mercy. If we always think of Çréla Prabhupäda, our loving father, then we can become blissful, for Çréla Prabhupäda is drowning in the ocean of nectar. But now that we have fallen into the ocean of misery, Çréla Prabhupäda has come to fish us out with the line if infinite mercy, Hare Kåñëa. If we bite the line by chanting, then no longer are we caught up in the knot of matter and back on home we go, back to Godhead, to drown with Prabhupäda in the nectarine ocean of devotion. No longer shall we be allured by the bait of mäyä, for once we fix our minds on the eyes of Çréla Prabhupäda, which are as cooling as the lotus petal, then never again can we see illusion. So I must take shelter at the feet of my spiritual master and try to learn how to serve properly. In this way, I will be able to reciprocate love instead of selfishly letting my father serve me.
Please forgive me Prabhupäda

Jamunäcärya
(ISKCON Columbus)
Guenn Dohrlandha Cole
It cannot be said that the pure of heart, asleep like children in their bed, will ever remain asleep once Kåñëa has touched their hearts. Their sleep, the sleep of ignorance, is washed away, and the finer worlds of spirit, invisible and unknown before, are revealed to them. Then, quietly and slowly, never with haste, begins the journey of love down a path of flowers, the colors of which are not to be found upon the mortal plane.

Guenn Dohrlandha Cole
(ISKCON Seattle)
Paulin
Çréla Prabhupäda, by Your causeless mercy I wish to surrender at Your lotus feet and serve You, Your Divine Grace, with all my being for eternity.
You know my heart, Çréla Prabhupäda; please accept it with all its contamination so that even I can serve. Great spiritual master of the universes, to serve You is the goal of all entities.
Your lowly servant,

Paulin
(ISKCON San Francisco)
Gadädhara Däsa Brahmacäré
All glories to Your Divine Grace. I offer You my repeated worthless obeisances. Truly You are delivering the most fallen souls. None of Your devotees is as insincere, shallow, stupid, obstinate, and arrogant as me. I am offensive to You repeatedly, and yet still You take care of me. How can a braying ass offer respect to the spiritual master of the universe? You are more merciful than Kåñëa. Kåñëa gives us what we deserve, but You give us only Kåñëa.
How foolish I am to have such a thought,
But I pray you accept my worthless support.
You establish real living in this kingdom of death.
Spiritual life with your guidance is a life full of bliss.
Your books and example can give us knowledge of this.
And when you pick up the karatälas to sing God’s holy name,
I know in my heart you’re causing cinders to flame.
How foolish I am to have such a thought,
But I pray you accept my worthless support.
Your eternally fallen servant,

Gadädhara Däsa Brahmacäré
(ISKCON New York)
Richard
Glories unto the divine lotus feet of my spiritual master, who has remained steadfast in service to His spiritual master and who has come to mercifully preach the wonders of Kåñëa and to deliver my fallen soul from the ocean of nescience.
The joyous path to liberation lies open to one in surrender. The door of demigod worship closes behind, for Kåñëa is ahead. My service never ending; one drop of nectar. Oh! My eternal master, bestow Thy mercy on one so undeserving, one without qualification.
Glories unto the divine lotus feet of my spiritual master, separation from who invites misery, curses the light, even so when Kåñëa leaves Dvärakä no pastime but sorrow. Again I come to my knees at Your feet. Oh! My eternal master. I surrender!
Your most unworthy servant,

Richard
(ISKCON San Jose)
Prahlädänanda Däsa
Dear Çréla Prabhupäda,
Through this dungeon I have desired and still too ignorant to leave. I’ve faintly heard you cry in the light asking me to come see. You who are in love with everyone and everything are at Kåñëa’s feet and He at Yours. The clouds come and go, but the moonshine of your smile dissolves them, and so now and then I can see more clearly. “Oh Kåñëa! Oh! Most auspicious universe!” My pride covers my humility, so to see what I cannot see I must surrender to Your lotus feet. Devotional service and the kingdom of God are one and the same. Your Divine Grace at Boston Airport. I see you in this picture here, one hand holding a bead bag in the air, waving to the devotees. “Kiba jaya jaya goräcänder arotiki sobhä.” How happy the must have been, bowing down at your lotus feet. “Jähnavé-taöa vane jaga jana-manlobhä.” When will I accept my Godbrothers and surrender at their feet. I turn to Lord Jagannätha and smile—You’re real. The pleasure that I feel tells me I’m going home. Lord Caitanya in ecstasy of love walks to Våndävana, and the animals dance with Him. “Sing ye. O animals, the name of Kåñëa.” “You may see Lord Jaganätha smile, but you would faint if you actually saw Him.” “Oh when will my mind be completely purified so that I may be able to see Våndävana as it is?” “The real thing is bhakti, your feeling. Kåñëa, kindly take. I have no qualification. I am rotten, fallen. (Çréla Prabhupäda is crying.) But I have brought this thing for You. Please take.” “You may all think that I am very advanced, but I pray to Kåñëa every day to protect me from mäyä.” To be personal must be amazing. If I could hear you, then I would know.
Your fallen servant,

Prahlädänanda Däsa
(ISKCON Buffalo)
Hanuman Däsa
All glories to the savior of the western world. By You Divine Loving Grace, New York, Tokyo, London, Paris, Sydney. etc., are benedicted by the wave of Love of God. From all sides Your children prostrate themselves, offering their life at Your divine lotus feet. Hare Kåñëa, Hare Kåñëa, Kåñëa Kåñëa, Hare Hare, Hare Räma, Hare Räma, Räma Räma, Hare Hare. Let’s sing and dance till we get fully unconscious in divine ecstatic bliss again and again, forever. This is the final goal of all sentient beings.
Your eternal servant,

Hanuman Däsa
(ISKCON Paris)
Gajendra Däsa Adhikäré
I offer my prostrated obeisances unto the lotus feet of my Guru Mahäräja, His Divine Grace Paramahaàsa Parivräjakäcärya Çré Çrémad A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupäda. It is by His Divine mercy that He has descended to this place of misery and death to inundate this entire planet with ecstasy of pure unalloyed love for Kåñëa. He is the tidal wave of Lord Caitanya’s movement, and He is the most dear companion of Lord Çré Kåñëa. He has planted the seeds of loving devotion in our hearts where only thorns and weeds could grow, and he has turned our feet from the ways of darkness and illusion to the path of eternal auspiciousness. My appreciation of His Divine Grace is all a worthless drop. I can only pray  to be His eternal servitor, and that alone will make me happy.

Gajendra Däsa Adhikäré
(ISKCON Seattle)
Madhu Kanta
As the embryo is trapped within the womb,
The spirit soul is encaged in a material tomb.
Birth, death, disease and old age
Make the four sides of this eternal cage.
But to every cage there is a key,
His Divine Grace, Çréla Prabhupäda to set us free.
The smoldering fire is covered by smoke
Like the conditioned soul that nature does invoke.
His Kåñëa consciousness is little perceived,
But by Kåñëa’s mercy His Divine Grace is received.
Such an äcärya alone knows Mäyä’s maze,
And by Çréla Prabhupäda’s words that spiritual spark will blaze.
That eternal enemy known as lust,
Which covers the mirror of the mind like dust.
Regulating the senses is the purifying process
Of Çréla Prabhupäda, who guarantees success.
His transcendental love knows no bounds
And which is spread through His eternal sounds:

Hare Kåñëa, Hare Kåñëa, Kåñëa Kåñëa, Hare Hare/
Hare Räma, Hare Räma, Räma Räma, Hare Hare.

Madhu Kanta
(ISKCON Los Angeles)
Raëadhir Däsa Brahmacäré
The kindness of Kåñëa
To make it so plain:
One guru,
One holy name.
So bereft of vision am I that still, to me, my spiritual master appears approachable and lovable. So conceited am I that still I have the nerve to address one so exalted as the personal representative of Lord Çré Kåñëa. By what inconceivable mercy has such a contaminated soul come into contact with the spotlessly pure devotee? How can Kåñëa continue to allow me to offer such contaminated service, with such pride, to the lotus feet of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupäda Mahäräja, who is offering the rarest, finest and most wonderful gift to the entire world with such complete grace and incredible humility?
He is an infinite reservoir of purity who can accept the offenses of so many jackals without becoming contaminated Himself. His mercy is so wise and so deep that He can accept contact with anyone, enlisting whatever crude energy they have and engaging it in the service if the Lord, offering it with love and devotion to Kåñëa, for us. And He is so indefatigably kind and so unflinchingly strong that He is single-handedly dragging so many reluctant and leaded souls back to home.
So Kåñëa in His perfect wisdom has given us this one brilliant radiant personage, to who no one else can even hold a candle, and there can be no doubt in the sincere seeker’s heart and mind that He is the jagatguru and intimate servitor of Kåñëa. And Çréla Prabhupäda, in His perfect wisdom, has given us the one mantra, the wonderful Hare Kåñëa mantra, which alone can counteract the influence of the age of Kali, and which alone can deliver the fallen soul to the highest position in the spiritual sky, the supreme abode of Çré Kåñëa. The one teacher is unmistakable, and the message is so clear, direct and simple, and yet we are refusing to appreciate such a holy sage for His real value, and we are so reluctant to embrace the yuga-dharma, the chanting of Hare Kåñëa, the holy name which is our only salvation in this age. By Kåñëa’s mercy, there is only one path and one guide for us, and both are so glaringly obvious that if we fail to accept Çréla Prabhupäda as our spiritual master and devote our entire being in His service, chanting constantly the holy name under His sublime instruction, we are guilty of total blindness to, willful ignorance of, and utter disregard for, the most majestic and beautiful sight in the entire universe, His Divine Loving Grace Çréla Prabhupäda.

Raëadhir Däsa Brahmacäré
(ISKCON New Våndävana)
Dharmaräja Däsa
O Divine Master Prabhupäda,
On this glorious day let me continually offer my fallen obeisances unto Your lotus feet. You are Kåñëa’s Divine Grace showering unlimited mercy on all the fallen souls. Like a beautiful swan You have come amongst the miserable crows to deliver Lord Caitanya’s saìkértana movement. Kåñëa has directed me to Your lotus feet, the only shelter for the fallen conditioned souls like myself. Your love for Kåñëa has attracted my polluted heart. Unworthy rascal that I am, I do not deserve Your blessings and association, But I pray that Kåñëa will give me strength to serve at Your lotus feet eternally. Vande guroù ñré caranäravindam.

Your most wretched servant,
Dharmaräja Däsa
(ISKCON Toronto)
Colleen McDonald
The sun sinks down to the horizon,
And darkness wings close o’er the land.
But the morning will come in but a few hours
And the dew drops will gleam from all the flowers.
So the dark night of mäyä has covered our souls,
Bringing all of us dangerously near to the shoals
Of death and pain and eternal night.
But a new morning gleams—Çréla Prabhupäda brings the light!
He strengthens our hearts with but one small, sweet smile,
And the daytime grows nearer, as we cover one more mile
Of that long dangerous road to Kåñëa’s own home.
But with Prabhupäda to lead us, we fear nothing that roams.
That black stoney wastes of mäyä’s hell-night
Are naught compared to Çréla Prabhupäda’s might.
Hail Bhaktivedanta, all glories to Thee,
For Thou has shown us the light,
That we may be free!
Colleen McDonald
(ISKCON Vancouver)
Paramätma Däsa
Çréla Prabhupäda, You’ve come to save the most fallen souls
From dark illusion, the greatest foe.
Please help me serve You more
Whom I have no attraction for.
Without Your mercy there is no hope—
Simply dreaming like a dope.
When will I not be affected by mäyä’s hold,
When our hearts are pure like gold,
Then I’ll be able to serve with all my heart
And will be able to play my part.
All glories to Çréla Prabhupäda.

Paramätma Däsa
(ISKCON San Franisco)
Shahid
Prabhupäda-gétä

What is to be said by me? Possessor of imperfect senses am I, where no words can transcend the glorious games He conjures from I know not what! He strives to light the gray ashes of spiritual insight, which long forgotten lie in the ruins of impersonalism, atheism and void of Brahman, all mäyä’s last stronghold on man, cutting him away from eternal bliss.
All this He illuminates as naturally as the sun follows the rays above the horizon on the scarlet dawn.
What is to be said by me? Possessor of imperfect senses am I, where no words can transcend the glorious games He conjures from I know not what! Shepherd He is, gathering the lost souls, leading the flock through the intricate maze mäyä has spun. Just surrender to His holy lotus feet, play your part right in the game I pray, and behold, it is no longer a game because the prize for the winner is an introduction to the Supreme Personality, the entity Kåñëa, who for always stays.
Possessor of imperfect senses am I, where no words have the power to transcend the fathomless ocean of my eternal master Çréla Prabhupäda, His Divine Grace. My most humble obeisances at His lotus feet.
Haribol! Haribol! Haribol!
His willing slave,

Shahid
(ISKCON London)
Mandakiné
What’s happening in Våndävana?
The blades of grass are jumping joyfully, the surabhé cows are so much in love that Våndävan earth is covered with milk, the cowherd boys and girls stop to play in the field and begin to dance. The most merciful upon the fallen souls, Patita Pavana, the golden Çré Kåñëa Caitanya, raises His hands and roars Haribol! Haribol! Haribol! Near His side, Prabhu Nityänanda, eternally full of bliss and happiness, plays the mådaìga. Advaita, Gadädhara and Çréväsa are here as well. And all their Divine Graces Çréla Bhaktivinoda and Çréla Bhaktisiddhänta Sarasvaté are playing karatälas. Närada Muni flies so fast that people just see his tamboura, his clappers and his beautiful garland. Çrémati Rädhäräëé, who keeps Kåñëa under Her control, plays Her transcendental flute. Kåñëa with blooming eyes is listening.
What is happening?
Somewhere in the three worlds, on a middle planet called Earth, the most dear confidential servant of the Lord is accomplishing the promise of the Holy Bhägavatam: “In every town and village, the name of Hari will be sung.” Çréla Prabhupäda is singing the holy name. Guru Mahäräja is singing the great mantra for deliverance.

Mandakiné
(ISKCON London)
Sandy 
To Çréla Prabhupäda, my spiritual master,
Why have you brought me into Your presence? I am more undeserving than a lump of clay, yet I don’t even know the meaning of humility. I know nothing except that the only time I am happy is when I am serving You. Please help me to serve You as I would serve Kåñëa and to serve others as I would serve You, always. Hare Kåñëa.

Sandy (Seamstress)
(ISKCON Los Angeles)
Devakinandana Däsa
All glories to Çré Guru and Çré Gauräìga!
nama oà viñëu-pädäya kåñëa-preñöhäya bhü-tale
çrémate bhaktivedänta-svämin iti nämine
namas te särasvate deve gaura-väëé-pracäriëe
nirviçeña-çünyavädi-päçcätya-deça-täriëe
Devakinandana Däsa
(ISKCON New Våndävana)
Çrédämä Däsa
To My Beloved Spiritual Father, Çréla Prabhupäda.

By remembering Your presence
I have received such endless pleasure.
The lotus feet of Your Divine Grace
Are but a never ending treasure.
Your mercy, such expanding love
But a never ending rain.
O dearest Çréla Prabhupäda,
You’re soothing all our pain.
This world a dried up desert
Without a drop to drink.
The mercy You have bestowed on us
Is our transcendental link.
The science You have presented,
So blissful, so complete,
Of which we have the option
To take or scorch in heat.
I offer my prostrated obeisances upon your transcendental lotus feet, which are displaying eternal love of Kåñëa by your infinite mercy to this suffering material world.

Çrédämä Däsa
(ISCKON Provincetown)
Janmanjaya and Tara Däsi
Our dearest Çréla Prabhupäda,
O the most blessed event! Oh, how great is Kåñëa’s mercy on our fallen conditioned souls that He has sent us one who is the most pure, most surrendered, most merciful! How can we deserve such causeless mercy and love bestowed upon us by Your Guru Mahäräja?
We, the most wretched souls in this material universe, do fall in the dust of Your lotus feet, Çréla Prabhupäda, our true father, and offer You our obeisances. You, the most merciful, have given us new life. In our darkest mire of ignorance, so full of anxiety and despair, Your Divine Grace has become the sun personified and planted a seed of devotional service within our hearts. O Çréla Prabhupäda please help us to love you and Kåñëa more. Help us become truly enlivened in this devotional service for which we are always anxious, that we may spread the message of Lord Çré Kåñëa Caitanya Mahäprabhu all over the world. Most merciful Çréla Prabhupäda, help us come with genuine devotion and surrender at you lotus feet.

Janmanjaya and Tara Däsi
(ISKCON Atlanta)
Stokakåñëa Däsa
Lost and bewildered,
Unhappy, forlorn,
Hearts heavy with grief,
Anger, scorn,
But He came to us
to show the cure.
Chant Hare Kåñëa,
Be happy, be pure.
All glories to Prabhupäda,
His mercy un-asked.
We, in delusion,
Find real life at last.
Life without Kåñëa,
Degenerate, fallen,
Because of Prabhupäda,
Benediction for all.
How can we, the fortunate,
Show our love for Him
Who gave such a gift
To us full if sin?
Service, surrender,
This we must do.
Ever increasing, that is the cure.
Approach Kåñëa through service;
It’s the only way.
Without Prabhupäda’s guidance,
Our path be not swayed.
Our lives we give willingly;
For more service we pray.
All glories to Prabhupäda,
His Divine Grace.

Stokakåñëa Däsa
(ISKCON Los Angeles
Kenneth Prabhu
O Prabhupäda! Prabhupäda You are so beautiful. Your lotus body shines like the sun in the sky. O His Divine Loving Grace, Your dhoti shines of a radiant light that is so beautiful. Your lotus eyes, lips, face, just gleam like the sun on a clear day.
O Prabhupäda! Your lotus body shines like a gem, it gleams like the stars, and it shines like the sun. You are so beautiful—O Prabhupäda!

Kenneth Prabhu
(ISKCON Los Angeles)
William R. Reed
Dearest A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupäda,
You have come with the sunshine of Your transcendental smile and the nectarean music of Your voice to awaken us from the sleep to which we, in our arrogant and lustful state, have been so long attached.
Please accept now, from Your most unworthy servant, my humble obeisances at You most holy lotus feet.

William R. Reed
(ISKCON Honolulu)
Nityänanda Däsa Brahmacäré
Dear Çréla Prabhupäda,
Please accept my humble obeisances at Your lotus feet. Will I ever be able to appreciate Your great mercy on me? I am so polluted and envious; my only hope is to catch the rain of Your causeless mercy and to offer myself to the spiritual master; perhaps He would be so kind as to engage me in His service.
All glories to Your Divine Grace, who is so mercifully relaying the transcendental message of Lord Caitanya to the most fallen of this decadent age—picking up my worthless self from the bog of material life. All glories to His Divine Grace!

Your servant
Nityänanda Däsa Brahmacäré
(ISKCON Buffalo)
Peter
1.
Impelled by love of Him You came,
Rejecting all that once was wish.
To please Your lover is Your wish.
2.
By copying Your actions we our act frame.
To act for love of Him is bliss.
To act for love of Him is bliss.
3.
We won’t, by merchanting, our souls defame
Be your example then we start
to please Kåñëa, then we start.

Peter
(ISKCON New Våndävana)
Bhasbara Däsa
With lips like lotus petals and eyes closed, and I thinking of His Grace in that He is dreaming in trance. The divine teacher is speaking nice things in His garden about Kåñëa and His cowherd friends. The most pure among men and the truest of friends, I can only try to offer all my love and service life after life.
O my dearest Father, my only wish in this fallen life of mine is that tears, may come to my eyes when I hear Your praise of Kåñëa.

Bhasbara Däsa
(ISKCON Los Angeles)
Rohiëé Kumära Däsa Brahmacäré
aho vayaà janma-bhåto ’dya häsma
våddhänuvåttyäpi viloma-jätäù
dauñkulyam ädhià vidhunoti çéghraà
mahattamänäm abhidhäna-yogaù
“O God, although we are born in a mixed caste, still we are distinctly promoted in birthright simply by serving and following the great who are advanced in knowledge. Even by connection with great souls in conversation, one cleanse oneself of all disqualification of lower birth without delay." (SB 1.18.18)
Çréla Prabhupäda, you are so kind that by your inconceivable mercy you are raising us who are less then mlecchas to the all-auspicious position of serving you. Now I am considering my present life to be janmabhåtaù simply my guru-seva. O jagad-guru,  you are the only disciple of Sarasvaté Öhäkur who is actually following Çré Caitanya’s precepts. This is why I have come to the cooling shade of your lotus feet. There are so many spiritual masters, but they are not ädhià vidhunoti çéghraà, or quickly relieving Kali Yuga men from the sufferings of this world. But by your grace I have found the most relishable pleasures at your feet. Therefore I beg that you always hold me tight as your disciple, lest mäyä grab me with her many arms from thy holy feet.

Rohiëé Kumära Däsa Brahmacäré
(ISKCON New York)
Vaiñëava Çruti 
mükaà karoti väcälaà
paìguà laìghayate girim
yat-kåpä tam ahaà vande
çré-guruà déna-täraëam
(Madhya 17.80)
“I am offering my respectful obeisances to the spiritual master by whose mercy a dumb man can become the great speaker and a lame man can cross mountains. He thus delivers all fallen souls.”

Vaiñëava Çruti 
(ISKCON Atlanta)
Rabindra Däsa
1. The many highways and byways were all seen by one who was lonely.
2. Bereft of guidance and vision he wandered in the darkness tight about,
3. His mind and body bleeding the horrors of this age of Kali
4. With fatigue’s demand he fell, laying down with a painful shout.
5. Only darkness, behind his eyelids as the blackness upon his heart
6. Then there came to pass a radiant soul, and said “From this hell you should depart!”
7. Behold in vision this saintly man; not a mortal is he,
8. Witness please, and marvel as he leads the kértana of Hari.
9. My dear man, have you not heard of Våndävana and of Çré Gaur-hari?
10. Prabhupäda, Caitanya! All auspicious sounds do vibrate this earth and sky.
11. No one is greater exalter than he,
12. for he knows the mellows of the Six Gosvämés.
13. His Divine Grace is full of bliss
14. as Çré Rädhikä relishing Kåñëa’s kiss.
15. Now just hear the loving cheer
16. of those who hold him most dear!
17. Mother earth weeps a sigh of relief
18. for those who are now in firm belief.
19. All glories to he; Çréla Prabhupädajé
20. Who has come to save those as you and me
21. A most magnanimous soul is he
22. This pure devotee of Lord Hari 
23. So now leave this dreadful age of Kali
24. and touch the feet of our beloved Swäméjé.
25. This is my plea and you will see
26. That is his glory, everyone should be.
27. Yes, this is bliss and of miseries be free
28. Take shelter of him only please
29. For this glorious vision should not cease.
30. And yea for soon did they leave
31. For His Divine Grace, Çréla Prabhupädajé

Rabindra Däsa
(ISKCON Vancouver)
Manmohini Däsi
To My Beloved Father, Çréla Prabhupäda.

Like a fish out of water I tried every stroke,
Searching eyes and dry pages without any luck,
Questioning why isn’t everyone happy? Why are they so bored?
Never understanding that all had forgotten the Lord.
By Your mercy, my father, You’ve given me such pleasure.
The understanding that Govinda is the reservoir of pleasure.
As long as I remember His blue lotus feet,
I swim in an ocean of nectar so sweet.
I‘ve had glimpses and revelations of my love for you, but they never, never last long enough. I offer my respectful obeisances unto your holy lotus feet.

Manmohini Däsi
(ISKCON Provincetown)
Romaharñana Däsa Brahmacäré
The jéva soul is more illuminating that a million suns but limited to this one body’s consciousness.
The Supersoul is beyond our conscious level and beyond limitations, conscious of all, yet does nit manifest for jéva soul until he is pure.
Çréla Mahätmä Prabhupäda has manifested for all asuras, çüdras, goddesses, etc. He comes to us as an ocean of bliss and endless mercy. He knows no lamentation. Only give all you have to Kåñëa.

Romaharñana Däsa Brahmacäré
(ISKCON Seattle)
Suchitra Devé Däsé
All glories to my spiritual master, my dear Çréla Prabhupäda, what can I say? You have given me everything; the benediction of loving You. I have nothing to give in return but the fruit of the seed You have placed in my heart, that is pure love of Kåñëa. Please let me serve You eternally. All glories to Your love for Kåñëa. Please accept my most humble obeisances and please forgive me for all the offenses I have committed to Your lotus feet.

Your most fallen and worthless servant,
Suchitra Devé Däsé
(ISKCON Seattle)
Saranga Däsa Brahmacäré
From the darkness and ignorance of conditioned life
You have brought us beyond our strife
To enjoy without Kåñëa—we’d never know
Without Your mercy, down deeper we’d go
You have shown us how to serve
From loving devotions we can not swerve
By Your Grace we can see the light
Without You we are in darkest night
Only You can give us hope
With material nature we cannot cope
Eternal life of knowledge and bliss
Serving God, You bring us this
Kåñëa’s love come only through You
God’s closest servant showering life anew
On the most fallen like rain from the cloud
All of Your glories let us shout aloud!
Jayate, jäyate Prabhupäda!

Saranga Däsa Brahmacäré
(ISKCON Berkley)
Mahänanda Däsa Adhikäré
My dearest Çréla Prabhupäda,
Please accept my humble obeisances. I am always remembering something that You once wrote in a letter to Çama Däsi.
“When I initiated you, I accepted you on that very moment as my daughter. So you are eternally my daughter and I am your father. There is no doubt about it. And our relationship is based on Krishna Consciousness, so the more successful you preach and help Krishna Consciousness movement, the more our relationship in transcendental platform is firm and fixed up. Our business is to chant and glorify the Holy Name of Krishna and wherever we may remain, Krishna is with us, Krishna is within your heart, Krishna is within my heart. So, spiritually there is no question of separation, even physically we may be in far distant place.”
These words are very, very dear to me, and in them I find the key as to how I can express loving feelings on Your appearance day. Therefore, I humbly pray to Kåñëa that He be kind to me and please give me the opportunity today to render some service to You in some way. Also, I pray that I please be fixed up in this position eternally.

Your servant,
Mahänanda Däsa Adhikäré
(ISKCON Detroit)
Vidärbha Kanya Däsé
My dear Çréla Prabhupäda,
Please accept my most humble obeisances. All the prabhus gather together unto Your Divine lotus feet and there prostrate themselves chanting “nama oà viñëu-pädäya kåñëa-preñöhäya bhü-tale çrémate bhaktivedänta-svämin iti nämine. Namas te särasvate deve gaura-väëé-pracäriëe nirviçeña-çünyavädi-päçcätya-deça-täriëe.” And they bring Your Divine Grace garlands of beautiful flowers to place over You head and around Your neck. So, too, do I pay my respects, begging humbleness, and by Your divine and unfathomable mercy I pray also to string a garland of my life and energy—and I want to give it to You, Çréla Prabhupäda, I want to give it to You. I want to give it to You.
O Çréla Prabhupäda, it is by taking Your mercy-offering alone  that I can become a garland in Your service. Your mercy showers and endless sweet rain, but I am fool enough to hide under the leaves of mäyä. I beg to come; I beg to open and receive Your mercy. Then, just as the flowers give themselves in full service, so, too, can I give myself at You lotus feet.
Your Divine Grace is my spiritual master. I wish no one else so much in my mind or in my heart.
Hare Kåñëa.

Vidärbha Kanya Däsé
(ISKCON Baltimore)
Jayadeva Däsa Brahmacäré
Dear beloved Çréla Prabhupäda,
You deserve all respect. Had You not come to teach love of Kåñëa, my time, and many others, would surely be spent culturing nescience.
Now, from following Your instructions, I have had a small taste of the spiritual sky, a small taste of rendering loving service to Kåñëa, and I have become aware for a few moments of the causeless magnanimous, and constant loving reciprocation from Çré Kåñëa.
These few moments, these small tastes of love of Kåñëa, have certainly been the most happy times I can remember, and I beg that You continue to teach love of Kåñëa more forcibly than ever. You alone can save the conditioned souls from turning into cats and dogs with human bodies. You alone are the only hope for the living entities in general on this planet, to return back home, back to Godhead.
You command love from all entities, and although I forget this so much, I beg You to continue to forcibly bring this great science of Kåñëa to us. Please force us to open our eyes to Kåñëa.
Hope this meets You in good health.

Your most unworthy disciple,
Jayadeva Däsa Brahmacäré
(ISKCON San Jose)
Makanlal Däsa Brahmacäré
Graced with tales of glory 
For all to share
O benediction moon, kindly open my
Cold heart with Your love,
That this fallen soul may sing of Your glorious mission,
For there is no hope at any turn but Your mercy,
Even though we squander You away
Force us faster in our stumbling progress
Please force us faster
To surrender to Your mission.
Perhaps soon by Kåñëa’s grace
You will enter deeper in my heart,
Driving out the cold impersonal void
That cares so little for Your kindness.
O my father, I beg You
Burn from my heart the black soul seeds of lust.
Burn up this darkness with Your blazing mercy
And force me to awaken.
You are my only hope, my life, though
I would squander You away
And in foolishness turn You from my heart
Please forgive me, please forgive me, just
Make me strong in Your service,
Not a rascal fool,
Just kindly make us pure at Your feet.
Please make me Your instrument.
Force this wretched soul to be transparent,
Worked within Your gentle hands
To carry out Your mercy mission
In the spirit of Öhäkur Bhaktivinode.
Without Your guidance there is no chance
For this godless hellish globe.
All rests on You, master of masters,
For we are weak and only fall.
Just fix me in Your footsteps,
Free from doubt and fear,
Only to fulfill Your desires,
Taking all fallen souls home
To Your golden merciful feet
Your fallen servant,

Makanlal Däsa Brahmacäré
Bhadra Bardan Däsa
My dearest Çréla Prabhupäda,
Please accept my worthless obeisances at Your lotus feet. It is You who have taught me to pay obeisances, and thus rooted me from the intellectual stool which I, a future pig, was so happy to enjoy. You have gone like Lord Brähma amongst the American hogs, caught us on Your clean white tusks, and taken us from the dirty place we had fallen to.
All glories to Your lotus feet, which the karmés think are located in the material universe, but which are actually in Vaikuëöha. Your lotus feet stand always one fraction above the filth, and therefore let me rest my aching head at their stem!
All glories to Your lotus hands, which are stretched out free for all to clasp on to, but which few are willing to take shelter of. Your hands are as soft as the breast of a swan, yet You are unwilling to relinquish even the smallest devotee (me!).
All glories to Your lotus mouth, from which such a stream of nectar flows that I cannot estimate its oceanic extent. Each morning You are presenting one drop of this ocean, in order to instill in my crowish breast a taste for nectar. Therefore You are the Paramahaàsa of the Western world.
All glories to Your lotus eyes, whose separation I fear more than bodily death. You see everything through the Vedic spectacle, and thus You are able to sift milk form my soul and leave aside all the filthy water.
All glories to Your lotus head, which contains all the Vedas in that small space. Your head appears to be medium size, but like Kåñëa it is not contained even within all the materialistic manifestation.
All glories to You, Çréla Prabhupäda, because by Your touch even my wretched soul is coming alive at last. Because You are uncontaminated, prophylactic, simply by Your contact the mist fallen becomes the most exalted. Therefore You are praised in all the scriptures as even more merciful than the Supreme Person.
All glories to Çré Guru and Gauräìga!

Bhadra Bardan Däsa
(ISKCON Los Angeles)
Greg
Çréla Prabhupäda says come let’s go home,
Come grab hold I will take you back,
Right back to Godhead;
Just try to understand that.
To give our hearts to something,
This is what we all must do,
So just give it back to Kåñëa,
And your troubles will be through.
Çré Guru is unlimited in His mercy;
He will shed it to me and you,
So if by His grace I can surrender,
I will learn to serve in love and devotion too.
With flowers around Your neck
And the word Kåñëa on Your lips,
You say just chant this mantra,
And you will find truth and bliss.
Just chant Hare Kåñëa,
Please just chant this holy name.
Just try and render service,
And you will go back from where you came
This is such a nice message
You have bought to me, one who is so low,
To spread this saìkértana movement
So we can all become self-realized souls
My heart is very dirty
From years of so much lust.
I know now, simply chanting
I can wash away the dust.
To pay my humble obeisances,
This is what I desire always to do,
To sing and dance and chant
For Kåñëa, with all due respect to You.
A pure devotee has presented Himself
With such beautiful luster,
So let me bow down in obeisances
And give back all the energy I can muster.

Greg
(ISKCON San Fransisco)
Kausalya Devé Däsé
My beloved Çréla Prabhupäda, 
Your mercy is causeless like the Supreme Lord…abundant and overflowing, open to anyone who will taste the nectar of this pure life You have given us.
All glories to You, my Divine Master. You have out upon our lips the holy name of the Lord Kåñëa…and the benediction of the holy name is coming to us in waves by Your mercy…
By the purity of Your self we are becoming purified from the most abominable conditions of life…we have come to the shelter of Your lotus feet…our hearts deluded by the glaring material energy…filled with impersonal conceptions void and lifeless…and by hearing the chanting of the name from Your holy lips, we can know what is life…our hearts are becoming clear and pure…In the serenity of this purifying process…we are desiring to hear and chant the transcendental glories of the Lord, and His holy name is peace to out hearts…serving, meditating, offering, everything, glorifying…
Çréla Prabhupäda, You have given us all of this…and by Your mercy our hearts are becoming cooled from this blazing fire of material existence…All glories, all glories to my Guru Mahäräja…because of Your love for Väsudev…and in turn You are very dear to Him…we can have a taste of the nectar of loving devotion…let me eternally serve…I pray at Your feet…

Kausalya Devé Däsé
(ISKCON Los Angeles)
Alice Rollins
To His Divine Grace Çréla Prabhupäda. All glories! This fool, plucked from Mäyä, prostrates herself at Your holy lotus feet. Such bliss in the transcendental knowledge that You bestow upon us, your eternal servitors. All glories to Your pure devotion. Hari Bol!

Alice Rollins
(ISKCON Honolulu)
Jahnava Devé Däsé
Dear Çréla Prabhupäda,
O pure devotee of the Lord, all glories unto the full nectar of Your sweetly transcendental lotus feet.
All glories to Your unalloyed and faithful devotional service unto the lotus feet of Your spiritual master, His Divine and Loving Grace Çréla Bhaktisiddhänta Sarasvaté Gosvämé Mahäräja Prabhupäda.
All glories to Your Divine Loving Grace. You are a magnificent instrument of Lord Caitanya’s gift of worldwide saìkértana to the fallen conditioned souls on this material planet. Your pure lotus lips are the potent vehicle of Harer Näma. All glories to Your Divine Grace. Haribol! Haribol!
All glories to You, whose transcendental resting place is the all-attractive lotus feet of Their Divine and Loving Lordship Çré Çré Rädhikä and Kåñëa. Jayate, jäyate, Prabhupäda!
I am begging to offer a most unworthy prayer unto Your holy lotus feet. That since I am part and parcel of the Lord, and since I cannot simply die in shame for my sinful negligence to simply follow you most humble example of this paraàparä program with loving devotion, that still, by Kåñëa’s grace, I be given more opportunity to rectify my forgetfulness due to ambition and the cheating propensity, so that I may not completely waste this life that Kåñëa has so kindly provided for the purpose of saìkértana cleansing through service.
I offer repeatedly my most respectful obeisances prostrated eternally at Your lotus feet.
Your most unworthy servant,

Jahnava Devé Däsé
(ISKCON Providence)
Tony Prabhu
Literary offering to Çré Guru. Haribol!
I offer my worthless humble obeisances unto Çréla Prabhupäda who has brought the most precious gift of existence, love, worship and devotional service to Lord Kåñëa.
All glories to my Guru Spiritual Master who has awakened my heart from degrading impious lusting to blissful pious trusting of my only protector Lord Çré Kåñëa.
All glories to the pure devotee of the Lord whose mercy is as boundless as the ocean of pure bliss. All glories to Çréla Prabhupäda.

Tony Prabhu
(ISKCON Los Angeles)
Bhagavan däsa
So pure and simple is your message
Given for the relief of all humanity.
You are the ever well-wisher of all mankind,
And Your mercy has touched upon me.
All You desire is the pleasure of Kåñëa
By seeing His children return to His service.
So You are His most confidential friend,
Please therefore engage me at Your lotus feet.
Any position I reached is by Your mercy.
Any knowledge I have is by Your grace.
There is nothing I have achieved that has not been by Your kindness.
Now all that I desire is unalloyed devotion at Your lotus feet, Çréla Prabhupäda.
Under Your direction, Vaikuëöha can exist here
A divine population free from fear.
Small children freed from contamination
Run in the fields of New Våndävana playing with the cows
with exclamations of “Haribol!” “Jaya Prabhupäda!”
Wherever You are I know that
Through the link of service Your love is manifest.
Nothing material do You desire,
Just my soul for Kåñëa.
Now You are traveling to teach us all
That we must perform selfless service in any condition of life.
“One who has life—he can preach.”
So I pray that I can follow in Your lotus footsteps.
Your fallen servant

Bhagavandäsa
(ISKCON Detroit)
Chris Balley
All glories to His Divine Loving Grace Çréla Prabhupäda
I, Your most fallen servant, offer my most humble obeisances at Your lotus petal feet! O Prabhupäda, that Your causeless mercy can be so bountiful and so wonderful as to extend even to myself, the most fallen wretch, is far beyond my understanding. All I can attempt, all I desire, is to serve at Your lotus feet. Please accept my worthless obeisances, O my Guru Mahäräja.
Your eternal servitor,

Chris Balley
(ISKCON Detroit)
Çréranga Däsa Brahmacäré
Dear Prabhupäda,
Loving father of so many fallen souls, I offer my most humble obeisances unto your divine lotus feet. It is by you hand that each of us has been delivered from the womb of darkness. Now we take a good deep breath. We laugh. We dance. We press our faces into the heavenly dust that you stand upon. You have asked us to go home with you. Well we are all following joyfully shouting, singing Haribol! Hare Kåñëa! All glories to Prabhupäda, the most merciful, the most glorious!

Çréranga Däsa Brahmacäré
(ISKCON Vancouver)
Tunga Bhadra
Your Divine Grace Çréla Prabhupäda.
You are life shining. Shining Your love of Çré Kåñëa for everyone to follow Your lotus feet through this dark existence back to our Supreme and loving Lord. I pray to understand, to realize my position, so I can perform Your orders, Your wishes. To please You will be my satisfaction, my joy, my life. All glories to You, Çréla Prabhupäda.

Tunga Bhadra
(ISKCON Los Angeles)
Pam Reynolds
My dear Çréla Prabhupäda,
Please accept my humble obeisances. I only hope to be more sincere when I say this in the future. Thank You, Çréla Prabhupäda, for taking me away from the hellish life I was in and for giving me the chance to chant Hare Kåñëa. I’m so thankful Çréla Prabhupäda for this chance. I don’t deserve this mercy. I only want to serve You Çréla Prabhupäda in any way I can. I surrender everything to You; I have tried to be the big controller long enough. All I have accomplished in my endeavors to control is nearly to destroy my life completely. I’m so fallen I don’t feel worthy to write these things. I desire nothing else Çréla Prabhupäda but to serve You. I feel much separation from You Çréla Prabhupäda; I only hope to become more sincere and grateful. Please always let me serve Çréla Prabhupäda, and please accept my most humble obeisances. All glories to Çréla Prabhupäda. Please accept me as You most humble fallen servant.
Your humble servant

Pam Reynolds
(ISKCON Los Angeles)