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ISKCON Centers Homages from ISKCON Centers 3_ISKCON Centers_06June2012.indd 105 6/6/12 10:40 AM 3_ISKCON Centers_06June2012.indd 106 6/6/12 10:40 AM Homages from ISKCON Centers Accra Dear Çréla Prabhupäda, nama oà viñëu-pädäya kåñëa-preñöhäya bhü-tale çrémate bhaktivedänta-sväminn iti nämine namas te särasvate deve gaura-väëé-pracäriëe nirviçeña-çünyavädi-päçcätya-deça-täriëe Once again the season has come for devotees worldwide to offer their homages to Your Divine Grace in appreciation of the rare opportunity given to us to participate in the yuga-dharma, harinäma-saìkértana. As I reflect on the unparalleled compassion and mercy showed toward the conditioned souls, one saying from the Vedic literature comes to mind: Just as rivers do not drink their own water but flow for the benefit of others, just as fruit-bearing trees do not eat their own fruits but bear them for the benefit others, and just as clouds do not drink their own rain water but shower it down for the benefit of others, so saintly persons live simply for the benefit of others. Çréla Prabhupäda, you shed gallons of blood to create ISKCON and thus provide spiritual shelter for all. You spent sleepless nights writing your Bhaktivedanta purports just to give enlightenment to others. You collected and spent huge sums of money constructing big temples around the world just for the benefit of your followers and others. And you traveled around the world many times, even in your old age, just to save many conditioned souls. Çréla Prabhupäda, you lived simply for the benefit of others. Therefore you are the greatest saint of our time. Your servants in Accra, Ghana. (written by Çréväsa Däsa) Agartala Dear Çréla Prabhupäda, Please accept our prostrated obeisances at your lotus feet. nama oà viñëu-pädäya kåñëa-preñöhäya bhü-tale çrémate bhaktivedänta-sväminn iti nämine namas te särasvate deve gaura-väëé-pracäriëe nirviçeña-çünyavädi-päçcätya-deça-täriëe 107 3_ISKCON Centers_06June2012.indd 107 6/6/12 10:40 AM Çré Vyäsa-püjä 2012 On this auspicious day of your Vyäsa-püjä, I thank you for saving me from the prison of material life. In your Bhagavad-gétä there is a picture of Lord Viñëu riding on Garuòa and reaching down to save a man drowning in the waves of the stormy material ocean. I was like that man, but in truth you are in between me and Lord Viñëu. A genuine guru, you are a transparent medium through whom Kåñëa is taking the fallen souls back to Godhead after they become purified by practicing unalloyed devotional service. I regularly watch a series of DVDs called “Following Çréla Prabhupäda,” produced by your dear devotee Yadubara Prabhu. It is a chronological series beginning in 1965 and ending in 1977. As I watch these DVDs, I observe the great transformation of the devotees, both men and women. In the beginning, when they first contact you, Çréla Prabhupäda, many are dirty, with long hair, ignorant and full of false ego. But after some time spent in your association and practicing Kåñëa consciousness, they become radiant, humble, very neat and clean, happy, and grateful for the knowledge you have given them. It is a transformation of iron into gold—proof of your spiritual power and the truth of your message. All the devotees I see in the DVDs love you and serve you with great surrender, enthusiasm, and bliss. Under your guidance, some of them go to open new ISKCON centers in various parts of the world, full of faith in you and full of Kåñëa consciousness. After understanding that the relationship with God is not based on asking Him for any benefit for oneself but on trying to give Him pleasure by serving Him with love and devotion, one devotee became ready to work twenty-four hours a day with full dedication: the word impossible was no longer in his dictionary. As a result of the efforts of these early devotees, inspired and empowered by you, everywhere in the world we see wonderful temples established for the pleasure of the spiritual master and Çré Çré Rädhä- Kåñëa, and for the benefit of all human beings. As a temple president, I realize that beyond me there is always Çré Kåñëa, the real doer and the real maker of everything. I am only an imperfect puppet in the hands of the Supreme Puppeteer. To the degree that the puppet is ready to be soft and compliant in the hands of the Puppeteer, to that degree the puppet is perfect. You, dear Çréla Prabhupäda, are the best example of this absolute surrender to Çré Kåñëa. This is the secret of your power of attraction, the reason why all your followers have such great love for you. It is why your presence has the power to rectify my mistakes, and why I am inspired to develop love for Çré Kåñëa. Everything is perfectly connected. As much as I read your books, that much my love for you and for Çré Kåñëa increases, that much I can see all my defects, all my mental dirtiness, and how much work I have to do to become acceptable before you and Kåñëa. I can see very clearly how you and Çré Kåñëa are so merciful to me, for both of you continue to engage me in your transcendental devotional service despite all my imperfections. When I meditate deeply on your amazing qualities, Çréla Prabhupäda, and on Kåñëa’s amazing léläs, I feel impelled to glorify you both more and more, but I feel unable to do so properly. So I can only cry from the core of my heart: “Çréla Prabhupäda, you are fantastic, wonderful, the best! Çré Kåñëa, You are super super super super super super! I am proud to be your devotee. Please, please, both of you, help me become your sincere, surrendered devotee! Help me become the servant of the servants of the servants of the gopés. Dear Çréla Prabhupäda, thank you very much for giving me the gift of my Guru Mahäräja, your dear disciple His Holiness Bhakti Svarüpa Dämodara Swami. Please accept our prostrated obeisances at your lotus feet. Your servants in Agartala, Tripura, India. (written by Premadaööa Däsa) 108 3_ISKCON Centers_06June2012.indd 108 6/6/12 10:40 AM Homages from ISKCON Centers Ahmedabad Dearest Çréla Prabhupäda, Please accept our humble obeisances at your glorious lotus feet as we beg our humble seat at those feet, which are nondifferent from Viñëupäda, the abode of Viñëu, Vaikuëöha. On this earth you are the most dear to Kåñëa because you gave every single breath to spread His glories. I witnessed how you were the humblest of humble persons. The only pride you ever took was that you were Sarasvata, the humble follower of Çréla Bhaktisiddhänta Sarasvaté Öhäkura. By the mercy of your spiritual master you were able to give to the devotional line the greatest contribution in history, establishing the scripture’s authenticity by proving through factual demonstration that the knowledge given in the scriptures is absolute and correct. For example, the Caitanya-caritämåta recounts how Lord Caitanya taught Sanätana Gosvämé the process of bhakti (abhidheya), the process by which love for Kåñëa (prayojana) is attained. The Lord explained that there are two kinds of jévas—the nitya-muktas (sometimes called nitya-siddhas) and nitya-baddhas. The nitya-muktas live with Kåñëa in His abode, enjoying the transcendental happiness of hearing and chanting about Him and serving Him in His pastimes. The nitya-baddhas, the conditioned souls, suffer the pangs of misery due to forgetting Kåñëa. Lord Caitanya said, käma-krodhera däsa haïä tära läthi khäya bhramite bhramite yadi sädhu-vaidya päya täìra upadeça-mantre piçäcé paläya kåñëa-bhakti päya, tabe kåñëa-nikaöa yäya “In this way the conditioned soul becomes the servant of lusty desires, and when these are not fulfilled, he becomes the servant of anger and continues to be kicked by the external energy, mäyä. Wandering and wandering throughout the universe, he may by chance get the association of a devotee physician, whose instructions and hymns make the witch of the external energy flee. The conditioned soul thus gets into touch with devotional service to Lord Kåñëa, and in this way he can approach nearer and nearer to the Lord.” (Caitanya-caritämåta, Madhya 22.14–15) How true! I was totally lost in the abyss of ignorance when I met the greatest sädhu-vaidya (devotee doctor), Your Divine Grace. You gave me the Hare Kåñëa mahä-mantra and Çrémad Bhagavad-gétä mantras and Çrémad-Bhägavatam mantras, and by the strength of these mantras the mäyä-piçäcé (the witch of the external energy) started fleeing. Before meeting you, most of us were absorbed in the illusory net of vikarma (prohibited activity). We didn’t even know what jïäna and yoga were. But by kindly giving us your transcendental books, you patiently explained not only jïäna and yoga but also bhakti. On the basis of the scriptures you showed how bhakti is superior and much easier, more practical, and more blissful to perform. Again, Lord Caitanya tells Sanätana (Caitanya-caritämåta, Madhya 18): ei saba sädhanera ati tuccha bala kåñëa-bhakti vinä tähä dite näre phala “Without devotional service, all other methods for spiritual self-realization are weak and insignificant. Unless one comes to the devotional service of Lord Kåñëa, jïäna and yoga cannot give the desired results. Lord Caitanya continues (Madhya 19–20): naiñkarmyam apy acyuta-bhäva-varjitaà na çobhate jïänam alaà niraïjanam 109 3_ISKCON Centers_06June2012.indd 109 6/6/12 10:40 AM Çré Vyäsa-püjä 2012 110 3_ISKCON Centers_06June2012.indd 110 6/6/12 10:40 AM Homages from ISKCON Centers kutaù punaù çaçvad abhadram éçvare na cärpitaà karma yad apy akäraëam “When pure knowledge is beyond all material affinity but is not dedicated to the Supreme Personality of Godhead [Kåñëa], it does not appear very beautiful, although it is knowledge without a material tinge.
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