Homages from ISKCON Centers

Homages from ISKCON Centers
Çréla Prabhupäda, you made a house in which we can all live peacefully and happily together, where
we have access to intimate service, good association, gorgeous Deity worship, daily harinämas, and
opulent prasädam. Through your books, lectures, personal example, and sincere disciples you continue
to inspire and engage us all in the sweet service of the Lord. We have such good opportunities here to
distribute your books and spread the mercy all over the world from our doorstep. So much mercy is
available in this temple—it is unlimited.
Our dearmost Çréla Prabhupäda, please bless us that we may serve you life after life, and that
someday, in some lifetime, we may experience an ounce of the love and devotion you have for Kåñëa.
We have no qualification, yet by your grace you have created our good fortune so that we can get to
know Kåñëa. We humbly beg to become puppets in your hands. Please make us dance, make us dance,
make us dance as you like. In this way please continue to shower your blessings upon us and inspire us
to go back to Godhead in this lifetime.
Your loving servants at the ISKCON temple in the Soho section of London, UK.
London (South)
Dear Çréla Prabhupäda,
Please accept our humble obeisances at the dust of your lotus feet. All glories to you, Çréla Prabhupäda,
on this most glorious day of your appearance.
Each and every day we thank you from the bottom of our hearts for coming to the West and giving
us Kåñëa consciousness. We do not know where we would be without this amazing gift.
As we write this insignificant offering to Your Divine Grace, we are contemplating how fortunate
we are to have you as our spiritual grandfather. You left the glorious land of Vraja at the ripe old age of
sixty-nine just to save fallen souls like ourselves.
We had no idea of the meaning and purpose of life, what to speak of our destination after death. We
had no idea that this life is meant not for sense gratification but for self-realization. We had no idea of
the vast ocean of spiritually charged activities you gifted to us, such as chanting the Hare Kåñëa mahämantra,
dancing before the Deities, honoring incredible prasädam, reading and studying transcendental
literature, associating with wonderful devotees of the Lord, worshiping Tulasé, and observing Ekädaçé.
How great you are to have opened our eyes with the torchlight of knowledge through your
transcendental books! We can see you face to face through your wonderful Bhaktivedanta purports.
sädhünäà sama-cittänäà sutaräà mat-kåtätmanäm
darçanän no bhaved bandhaù puàso ’kñëoù savitur yathä
“When one is face to face with the sun, there is no longer darkness for one’s eyes. Similarly, when one is
face to face with a sädhu, a devotee, who is fully determined and surrendered to the Supreme Personality
of Godhead, one will no longer be subject to material bondage.” (Çrémad-Bhagavatam 10.10.41)
How great you are to have given us the opportunity to fully understand within this very lifetime
all these amazing things! Simply we have to make some endeavor with a little positive service attitude.
Soon we will have the opportunity to visit the great holy lands of Våndävana and Mäyäpur, which
you left in 1965 to preach the glories of the Lord. It is so inspiring to know that during this yäträ we will
be having darçana of the beautiful Deities you installed in Våndävana, and that we will be able to reside
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