Vyasa Puja offering to Srila Prabhupada 2018

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Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda,
Please accept my most respectful obeisances at your lotus feet.
Especially on your divine appearance day, I first strive to express my unbounded gratitude for your purely transmitting the mahā-mantra—a bestowal apparently so simple yet truly so miraculous. As the years and decades in bhakti pass, increasingly even this lowly disciple can catch a glimpse of the reality that Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura declared: “In all fourteen worlds there is nothing to be had except the holy name of Kṛṣṇa.”
Next, I urgently thank you for opportunities to engage the senses in Kṛṣṇa’s service. For the past two weeks I have been meditating on the words in your purport to Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 5.12.13:
A devotee has no other ambition than to serve Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement was started to engage people twenty-four hours daily in the service of the Lord and in His glorification.
So that was one of your foundational motivations? You began ISKCON as a device “to engage people twenty-four hours daily in the service of the Lord”? In the current ISKCON context, how can we fulfill this desire? It would seem that whether devotees live in their own home, in an āśrama, or in a devotional community, somehow every devotee, regardless of one’s accustomed level of bhakti intensity, should have ready access to the impetus (the inspiration) and the capability (the techniques) for engaging in devotional service morning, noon, and night.
To you I acknowledge, although so inadequately, my eternal indebtedness for your pure gifts of the mahā-mantra accompanied by absorption in devotional service. We call out to the whole world, tactfully yet persistently proclaiming that even in this most desperate and degraded era, your process, inherited from Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, certainly works.
Aspiring to be your servant,
Devāmrita Swami

Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda,

Please accept my most respectful obeisances at your lotus feet.

Especially on your divine appearance day, I first strive to express my unbounded gratitude for your purely transmitting the mahā-mantra—a bestowal apparently so simple yet truly so miraculous. As the years and decades in bhakti pass, increasingly even this lowly disciple can catch a glimpse of the reality that Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura declared: “In all fourteen worlds there is nothing to be had except the holy name of Kṛṣṇa.”

Next, I urgently thank you for opportunities to engage the senses in Kṛṣṇa’s service. For the past two weeks I have been meditating on the words in your purport to Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 5.12.13:

A devotee has no other ambition than to serve Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement was started to engage people twenty-four hours daily in the service of the Lord and in His glorification.

So that was one of your foundational motivations? You began ISKCON as a device “to engage people twenty-four hours daily in the service of the Lord”? In the current ISKCON context, how can we fulfill this desire? It would seem that whether devotees live in their own home, in an āśrama, or in a devotional community, somehow every devotee, regardless of one’s accustomed level of bhakti intensity, should have ready access to the impetus (the inspiration) and the capability (the techniques) for engaging in devotional service morning, noon, and night.

To you I acknowledge, although so inadequately, my eternal indebtedness for your pure gifts of the mahā-mantra accompanied by absorption in devotional service. We call out to the whole world, tactfully yet persistently proclaiming that even in this most desperate and degraded era, your process, inherited from Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, certainly works.

Aspiring to be your servant,

Devāmrita Swami