Non-GBC Sannyäsés
Non-GBC Sannyäsés
Non-GBC Sannyäsés
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Homages from <strong>Non</strong>-<strong>GBC</strong> Sannyāsīs<br />
Bhakti Br.hat Bhāgavata Swami<br />
Dear Çréla Prabhupäda,<br />
Please accept my humble obeisances in the most auspicious dust of your lotus feet. All glories to<br />
Your Divine Grace!<br />
Çréla Prabhupäda, you manifested your eternal pure devotional service to Çréla Bhaktisiddhänta<br />
Sarasvaté Öhäkura in the form of your International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). You<br />
said that the way for us to develop the kind of love for Kåñëa that the gopés feel (gopé-bhäva) is to spread<br />
Kåñëa consciousness all over the world. Therefore the form of your International Society for Krishna<br />
Consciousness is your bhakti-kalpataru, where we can develop our love for Kåñëa by spreading Kåñëa<br />
consciousness all over the world.<br />
Your Divine Grace said, “ISKCON and myself are nondifferent.” I know that if I want to enter into your<br />
manifest lélä and deeply enter into your association, which is exclusively available in your International<br />
Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), I must continue to take shelter of and serve your servants<br />
and the servants of your servants in ISKCON. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Çréla Prabhupäda, for<br />
manifesting ISKCON as nondifferent from yourself.<br />
I humbly beg to remain<br />
A servant of your servants,<br />
Bhakti Båhat Bhägavata Swami<br />
Bhakti Rāghava Swami<br />
oà ajïäna-timirändhasya jïänäïjana-çaläkayä<br />
cakñur unmélitaà yena tasmai çré-gurave namaù<br />
I was born in the darkness of ignorance, and my spiritual master opened my eyes with the torchlight of<br />
knowledge. I offer my respectful obeisances unto him.<br />
mükaà karoti väcälaà paìguà laìghayate girim<br />
yat-kåpä tam ahaà vande çré-guruà déna-täraëam<br />
I offer my respectful obeisances unto my spiritual master, the deliverer of the fallen, by whose mercy<br />
even a dumb man can become the greatest orator and even a lame man can cross mountains.<br />
My dear Çréla Prabhupäda,<br />
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to you, Çréla Prabhupäda, who are forever inspiring<br />
so many hundreds and thousands of devotees around the world to take shelter of Kåñëa’s holy names<br />
and the process of His devotional service. Without your divine presence and constant inspiration, we<br />
would be totally helpless and lost in this material ocean of nescience.<br />
By your kind mercy I happen to be visiting here in New Vrindaban, the rst varëäçrama community<br />
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