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Praṇāmas by the Author

Śrīla A.C. Bhaktivedānta Swami Prabhupāda

Praṇāmas by the Author

by Śrīla A.C. Bhaktivedānta Swami Prabhupāda

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First of all, I beg to submit

to the lotus feet of my spiritual master,

Oṁ Viṣṇupāda Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktisiddhānta

Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Mahārāja,

who has opened my spiritual vision

and eradicated the darkness of ignorance

by his forceful message of the transcendental world.

It is only by the mercy of His Divine Grace

that I have been able to remove

the impersonal calamity.

I offer my most sincere obeisances

unto the lotus feet of the Lord of Lords,

who is the protector of all surrendered souls.

The Supreme Lord is always anxious to bestow

upon us the fortune of unalloyed love of God,

untouched by such deviating processes

as dry speculative empiric knowledge

or the unsatiated desire for fruitive activities

meant only to acquire temporary material gains.

He is the supreme leader of the chain of disciplic succession

in the line of Śrīla Ānanda Tīrtha.

He is worshiped by Śrī Śrīman Advaita Prabhu

and Śrī Śrīman Haridāsa ˇhākura,

who are incarnations of Mahā-Viṣṇu

and Brahmā respectively.

He delivers His devotees, such as

the brāhmaṇa leper Vāsudeva,

from all ailments.

He is the deliverer

of Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya

and King Pratāparudra,

who were suffering from the pangs

of material renunciation

and enjoyment respectively.

I offer my most sincere obeisances

unto the lotus feet of the Lord of Lords

who superficially accepted

the renounced life of a sannyāsī

to make the brāhmaṇa’s curse effective.

In the garb of a sannyāsī, He initiated

the transcendental ecstasy of spontaneous love of God

as was felt by Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī

in Her amorous desire to meet Śrī Kṛṣṇa.

In the quest of such spontaneous love of God,

the Lord relinquished the association

of His eternal consort Śrī Lakṣmī Viṣṇupriyā-devī,

who was dearest to Him and whose mercy is most ardently sought after by all true devotees of God

and even by the denizens of heaven.

The Lord accepted the renounced order of life

in accordance with the foretelling inculcated

in the Mahābhārata, the Vedas, and the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam

in order to bestow His causeless mercy upon us,

who are addicted to the false enjoyment of

fame, glory, the opposite sex, and wealth

in this material world.

Śrīla A.C. Bhaktivedānta Swami Prabhupāda appeared in Kolkata in 1896, and after a successful education and engagment in business, he met his guru, Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura in 1922. He formally took initiation from Sarasvatī Ṭhākura in 1933 and later accepted sannyāsa in 1959. Upon the order of his guru, he began writing philosophical essays and books in English and eventually travelled to the United States where he began the International Society for Kṛṣṇa Consciousness (ISKCON) in 1966. After establishing over 100 temples, initiating over 5000 disciples and writing sixty books on Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava teachings, he passed away in Vṛndāvana in 1977.

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