Vayas Puja Offering: HH Gopal Krsna Goswami Maharaj

Vayas Puja offering by HH Gopal Krsna Goswami Maharaj to Srila Prabhupada 25th Aug 2008
Dear Srila Prabhupada,
I beg to offer my most fallen obeisances at your lotus feet. This year we are going to celebrate your 112th birth anniversary, and I am feeling completely unqualied to adequately glorify your transcendental achievements. Srila Prabhupada, you are the greatest of all spiritual preceptors.
We all know the struggle you went through rst in India and then in America to establish ISKCON. It was only due to your determination and rm faith in your spiritual master’ order that you were able to fulll Lord Caitanya’ prediction that the holy name will be chanted in every town and village on this planet. To be a disciple means to be disciplined. When Prakäçänanda Sarasvaté asked Lord Caitanya why he was chanting and dancing like a madman, Caitanya Mahäprabhu replied that His spiritual master had considered Him a fool and hence asked Him to just chant and dance. Similarly, we should always consider that we are fools in front of you, and with faith and determination we should follow your instructions.
You have given us perfect knowledge in your books. We do not have to read any other book or go to any other personality outside your institution to pursue spiritual life. You instructed us to follow in the footsteps of Caitanya Mahäprabhu and to endeavor to save every conditioned soul by giving them Krsna consciousness. Srila Prabhupada, you are the perfect ambassador of Lord Caitanya. Srila Prabhupada, you once said, “ISKCON is my body, and book distribution is my heart.” You wanted your temples to be well managed, devotees to be well trained, and book distribution to keep expanding. Real success will only come when we work together to fulll these goals.
On this auspicious day, I beg you to bless me to develop purity, compassion, and determination to follow your instructions. Please bless me so that I can remain a tiny instrument in spreading your mercy in India and other areas where I work. Once again I want to express my gratitude for your having saved me from material life, and I pray that I always remember your lotus feet and divine instructions.

Your eternal servant,
Gopäl Krishna Goswami