Vyasa Puja offering to Srila Prabhupada 2022

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Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda,

I offer my deeply considered obeisances at your lotus feet, the treasury of boundless bhakti. For my offering this year, I would like to focus upon your breathtaking devotion to Kṛṣṇa’s service and pleasure.

Finally I have started to more profoundly see that your spiritual attributes—such as intelligence, strategizing, determination, and tolerance—all spontaneously manifest from your dedication to pleasing Kṛṣṇa’s senses. Therefore whatever you do and however you do it is always mesmerizing.

How much you love Kṛṣṇa—through the paramparā—I can’t, of course, ever fathom. As written in Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta (Madhya 2.49):

Unalloyed love of Kṛṣṇa is like an ocean of happiness. If someone gets one drop of it, the whole world can drown in that drop. It is not befitting to express such love of Godhead, yet a madman must speak. But even though he speaks, no one believes him.

As I endeavor to grasp the fullness of your every word and action, I must confess that at some point—maybe far along in the analysis—I will hit an “in-built” epistemological limitation. As both the Caitanya-caritāmṛta and Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu declare:

Even the most learned man cannot understand the words, activities, and symptoms of a person situated in love of Godhead.
[Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya 23.39]

Like a child seeking to touch the moon, I desire to understand as much about loving Kṛṣṇa as the transcendental system allows. I am sure that by my humbly and selflessly serving your lotus feet, a glimpse of that real love will be mine, to share with others.

But, my dear sir, I am obliged to you because now I can understand that this material manifestation is without substance although it appears real. I am confident that by serving your feet I will be able to give up the false idea. [Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.7.18]

What’s more, though:

By serving the feet of the spiritual master, one is able to develop transcendental ecstasy in the service of the Personality of Godhead, who is the unchangeable enemy of the Madhu demon and whose service vanquishes one’s material distresses. [Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.7.19]

Aspiring to plumb the depths of your divine service,

Your insignificant servitor,
Devāmrita Swami