Vyasa Puja offering to Srila Prabhupada 2014

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Dear Srila Prabhupada,
Please accept my prostrated obeisances at your lotus feet.

Thirty-seven years past your disappearance, as your ISKCON approaches its fiftieth anniversary, I am still awed, amazed, and fascinated.

First, your vision for salvaging humanity and repositioning it on track for genuine progress:

Despite my decades of thorough mundane studies and then intensive global travels, I have never encountered a vision more attractive, comprehensive, and pregnant with effectiveness—in short, an all-embracing plan for transforming human society that can actually get the impossible job done.

Second, concentrated application:

I like to say that you are “the master of the focus.” You know how to scoop up the energies of conditioned souls and, despite potential intricacies and divergences along the way, focus us on achieving your goals.

Third, the pinnacle of insight:

When I attempt to describe your divine powers of penetration and discernment, the words that come to mind are spiritual perspicacity, acuity, and prescience. How to see what you see? The priceless insights you convey in your lectures and books astound me—since the first page of your books I turned forty years ago, until now, when I continue to wonder at the depths still awaiting me.

Finally, your deliverables, the take-aways:

As a little boy in church, one of my favorite songs was "I Know That My Redeemer Liveth." For my insignificant attempts at service, you offer the highest reward—back to Godhead—however you arrange for the devotional service to go on.

Aspiring to be your unconditional servant,
Devamrita Swami