The 27th August 2024 marked the 128th anniversary of Shrila Prabhupada's divine appearance, and the B.L.I.S.S devotees celebrated by writing and reciting offerings to him.
Makhancora Dasa:
nama om visnu-padaya krsna-presthaya bhu-tale srimate bhaktivedanta-svamin iti namine
namas te sarasvate deve gaura-vani-pracarine nirvisesa-sunyavadi-pascatya-desa-tarine
I offer my respectful obeisances unto His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, who is very dear to Lord Krishna on this earth, having taken shelter at His lotus feet.
My respectful obeisances are unto you, O spiritual master, servant of Sarasvati Gosvami. You are kindly preaching the message of Lord Chaitanya deva and delivering the Western countries, which are filled with impersonalism and voidism.
My dear Shrila Prabhupada, at this most auspicious day of your divine appearance for the salvation of all the conditioned souls and their return back home, back to Godhead, to the abode of your beloved Lord Shri Krishna, kindly and mercifully lend your ear to my humble homage and an attempt to utter your transcendental glories.
Oh Prabhus, brothers, sisters and dear friends, I say to you with a great urge, you will obtain your good fortune from Their Lordships Shri Shri Radha-Krishna only when Shrila Prabhupada becomes pleased with you. Yasya prasadad bhagavad-prasado, yasya aprasadan na gatih kuto pi. By lovingly serving the lotus feet of and pleasing His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, one obtains the mercy of the Divine Couple. By displeasing or offending a pure devotee of the Lord, Shrila Prabhupada, one sets himself up for an easy journey to hellish planets.
Oh Shrila Prabhupada, you are the dearest and most confidential and eternal associate of Lord Gauranga, Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, the son of Mother Shachi. Your transcendental loving devotional service to the Supreme Lord Shri Krishna is unparalleled within the three worlds. You are that great saintly spiritual master prophesized by His Divine Grace Shrila Bhaktivinoda Thakura, who will unite people from all around the world under the one banner of Harinama-sankirtana. You took shelter of Shrila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura Prabhupada, the ray of Vishnu, your divine spiritual master, who armed you with his most compassionate order to preach in the Western countries and, fulfilling the desire of the whole disciplic succession to liberate everyone from the pain-inflicting clutches of maya, you now bestow intense and sincere devotion to the lotus feet of Lord Shri Krishna at different places around the world.
By your strong and divinely empowered desire, the holy name of Lord Gauranga will spread throughout all the countries of this Earth and beyond. Prthivite ache yata nagaradi grama sarvatra pracara haibe mora nama. By the mercy of Lord Shri Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and His supreme and unlimited potency delegated wholly and fully into your lotus hands, in all the metropolises, cities, towns and villages on the surface of this planet, from all the oceans, seas, rivers, and streams, from hills and mountains, plains and valleys, young and old, big and small, rich and poor, professors and simpletons, judges and criminals, meat-eaters and vegans and everyone in between, everyone will chant the holy name of Krishna and dance in transcendental ecstasy. You have completely carried out this order of the Lord, and now only time separates the seed you have planted from the nectarean fruit of love of God for everyone to relish in eternity, knowledge and bliss.
As the unlimited and causeless mercy of Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu forcefully and lovingly conquers all directions, a flood of spiritual joy will certainly cover the land. When all the sinful, miserable living entities suffering in the grip of material illusion become happy by hearing and chanting the holy name of Lord Krishna, your desire is then fulfilled and your oceanic, beautiful smile lightens up the universe.
Although you, Shrila Prabhupada continuosly request me to engage myself in your mission, I am not worthy or fit to do it. I am fallen, foolish and completely insignificant. Therefore, O Prabhupada, now I am begging for Your mercy so that I may become worthy, for You are the wisest and most experienced of all. Only by your mercy can my devotional life be maintained. Your words are its air, your glance is its light and your instruction is its sustenance. Unfortunate as I am, I chose to choke hungry in darkness. Please be merciful upon me and patiently keep my little share of your grace for the time when I, by the mercy of your moonlike devotees, develop a desire to desire your favour.
O Shrila Prabhupada, you are my eternal Lord. Forgetting You, I suffer the kicks of maya in worldly existence, following the ways of ordinary people, who have lost their vision. But today the chance to meet You occurs again. I will surely be able to re-join Your phalanxes.
O dear Master, in your divine and transcendental association I will experience great joy once again. I will wander about the streets and corners, roads and train stations, squares and parking lots chanting the holy name with my Godbrothers and Godsisters in ecstatic sankirtan. Running and chasing the forgotten souls in the many forestlike cities of maya, I will preach to them the cult of bhakti in spiritual excitement. When will that day be mine?
Today that remembrance of You came to me in a very nice way. Because I long for you and your devotees, Krishna somehow brought me here to remind me of the higher taste of true spiritual life. This temple and these beautiful BLISS devotees are pure representatives of your divine mission. Kindly bless them eternally with the dust of your lotus feet so they may always taste the nectar of pure devotion.
I am your eternal servant. As a palmful of water taken from the Ganges doesn't diminish the Ganges in any way and neither does it benefit the holy Ganges in any way when offered back into its flow, or as a lamp offered to the sun has no other significance than to purify the worshipper by offering the sun's own element, the fire, into the sun itself, so this humble offering is nothing else than a reflection of your own poem which you wrote for Lord Krishna.
You taught us that the spiritual master is to be worshipped as God and from the disciplic succession, which you have kindly revealed to us, we know that the pure devotee spiritual master is the direct manifestation of Krishna. Saksadharitvena samasta sastrair. In this way I, lowly Makhancora dasa, tried to glorify you today.
O Shrila Prabhupada, except for You there is no other means of success.
Hare Krishna.
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