10/04/1998 - 2314

Vyasa Puja Offering from Saranagati

World (VNN) - by devotees at Saranagati Dhama

Dear Srila Prabhupada,

Please accept our prostrated obeisances at your lotus feet.

tvam nah sandarsito dhatra
dustaram nistitirsatam
kalim satva-haram pumsam
karna-dhara ivarnavam

"We think that we have met Your Goodness by the willof providence, just so that we may accept you as captain of theship for those who desire to cross the difficult ocean of Kali,which deteriorates all the good qualities of a human being. S.B.1.1.22"

Srila Prabhupada, you are the guiding force and source ofinspiration for all time. You were once asked by a reporter what would happen after you left this planet. "I shall neverdie, I will live forever in my books!" was your reply as thedevotees present erupted in a tumultuous, "Jaya SrilaPrabhupada."

You have said that the vibration of the spiritual master isliving and is actual association. Within your books you remainpersonally present for the upliftment and deliverance of futuregenerations. In your presence even the greatest problems can besurmounted. Insurmountable obstacles only exist in the absenceof your association. Some have said we must go elsewhere forknowledge Your Divine Grace did not give instruction on. Eitherthey have not done their homework or if you did not comment on amatter, it has no valid relevance. We have seen that those whohave gone elsewhere, despite your many warnings, have createdhavoc for themselves and others. Everything for attainingcomplete perfection in unalloyed devotional service is withinyour Bhaktivedanta purports. You are the founder and acarya forthe International Society for Krsna Consciousness. You went togreat lengths to impress this fact into our dull brains simplyto protect us from deviations wrought by outside influences.

Your mission was to deliver the world from voidism andimpersonalism. Unfortunately we are so impersonal and in such avoid that we cannot realize that you are still with us. Once youheard a criticism by your god-brothers that you did not visitthe samadhi mandir of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta in Mayapura. Youremphatic reply was that you did not consider that your spiritualmaster was lying within that samadhi but that rather, whereveryou went, he was by your side and that there was not a momentthat he was not in your association. In so many ways, you showedby your practical example what it meant to constantly associatewith the spiritual master via his instruction or vani. Thus youare an actual acarya. Many of your contemporaries missed thispoint and rather than try to serve the instructions of theacarya, they tried occupy the post of acarya .

Srila Prabhupada , you are eternally sentient , please protectus from these impersonal

calamities. Please allow us to eternally remain your humbleservants at Saranagati Dhama, which is one very small roomwithin the house you have created for the entire world to livein .

Your servants

At Saranagati Dhama

Ashcroft, BC, Canada