The Man the Mission & making of history

 

nama om visnu-padaya krsna-presthaya

bhutale srimate bhaktivedanta-svamin iti namine.

I offer my humble obeisances unto His Divine Grace Prabhupada A C Bhaktivedanta Swami, who is very dear to Lord Krsna on this earth, having taken shelter of the lotus feet of that ever-youthful, beautiful, transcendental Lord

who, alone, in his 70th year, threw family, society, friendship, love to the wind, left mother India and set sail around the earth to foreign, unknown shores because his spiritual master spoke to him in a dream

who carried the glorious message of the munificent Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, who brought an ageless message of love of Godhead,

who played cymbals and chanted Govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami-I worship Govinda the Primeval Lord, explaining to void-meditators that Krsna's transcendental body is unlimited, that He can extend His hand to all parts of His creation, that any one part of His body can perform all the actions of all the other parts, and that simply by glancing at nature He impregnated her with countless living entities and set the cosmic systems spinning and struck up the song of the universe

who had and everlastingly has infinite mercy, delivering it free of charge, a matchless gift, to whomever stops to hear

who never turned one soul away, who effused them all with kindness, affection, truth

who opened Bhagavad-gita and explained Sri Krsna's message verse by verse and set His names-Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare Hare, on the lips of the young

who, by contact only, warmed their hearts and lit the fires of love of God in their souls and smeared their eyes with the ointment of devotion

who knows the innate sweetness of the soul in love with Krsna and who delivers that love with truth, who draws it out the timid soul with truth and who demands its flourishing and wishes it well

who resides at the lotus feet of Krsna eternally, who is His ambassador on earth, transmitting His message infallibly

who views this universe to be no more significant than water in a calf's hoofprint

who hears the discordant sounds of Kali's millennia and blends them in harmony to one song that anyone can sing

who perpetually receives the waters of benediction from the ocean of mercy and who pours them forth in torrents to extinguish the flames of materialism

who, as all scriptures reveal, should be honored as highly as the Supreme and Almighty Lord, for he is the Great God's most confidential servitor

whose mercy enables me to receive the benediction of the mercy of Krsna and without whose mercy I cannot advance on the spiritual path, and who is therefore worthy of my perpetual obeisance & my worship

 

Today is the auspicious occasion of appearance day of Srila Prabhupada, to whom we all are indebted for making us understand Krsna, ourselves & the scriptures. Our eternal savior!


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