Dear Srila Prabhupada
Please accept my humble obeisances, and kindly forgive my offenses.
Please accept my fallen obeisances, and my love, on this auspicious day of your disappearance. With your arrival on the shores of America, you brought with you the shinning lamp of knowledge; the wisdom on India and the Supreme Absolute Truth. You appeared on the shores of America the way the sun appears on the Eastern Horizon. Slowly revealing itself at first, then dominating the sky with its blazing effulgence, illuminating the entire world with its golden light. Where there is light there is no darkness. And wherever your words are being sung and repeated, there is a glimmer of hope for the materially conditioned souls.
But it is not the Big things that you brought, the transcendental knowledge of the Absolute, that I appreciate most, but it’s all the little things that I relish daily. The music, the art, the food stuff, (prasadam) that we offer daily, the prayers we say daily, the hope we have in the afterlife, and the more meaningful life you have given us all.
When I think of how you have changed my life, from a mundane existence in the material world, to a hopeful existence in the spiritual world with Krsna, I am moved to tears. How that hopeful future has changed my everyday life.
I am just a sudra ,a construction worker, a woodworker, and laborer, but you have engaged me in service to the Lord. I am engaged in service that directly serves your mission. I am building book displays, pujari rooms, and other related services that honor you, and are in direct service to Sri Radha and Krishna. For these services I am deeply grateful.
You have made me the webmaster of the very successful web page “The Hare Krishna Movement.org” which is rapidly approaching 5 million visitors. and you have put me in this community of New Vrindaban residents, as opposed to the karmi association I was previously accustomed to.
Yes, I am grateful for all the daily mercy, of a life with a more meaningful existence, and a more hopeful future.
Begging to remain your insignificant disciple.
With deep gratitude
Vyasasan das
