Thanks for Your Help

From Praghosa Das

Posted June 2, 2005

All glories to
Srila Prabhupada!

Dear Devotees,

I want to take this opportunity on behalf of Srila Prabhupada to thank all of you who personally rendered some assistance to me this past year in my efforts to overcome a bout with a very serious illness.

His Holiness Radhanath Swami and the wonderful devotees in our Chowpatty Temple serving Sri Sri Radha-Gopinatha kindly gave me full facility to mend while there in the wonderful devotional environment created by all of them. In addition, many devotees sent donations, large and small, to help me offset the costs involved in treating my condition.

I am very well aware that you all did so as a result of your seeing me in relation to whatever small service I may have been fortunate enough to have rendered to His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada in the past or present. It is in our mutual service to Lord Krsna, through our Srila Prabhupada, that we all feel ourselves to be eternally associated. Indeed Srila Prabhupada once assured us that "We will all be together in the spiritual world with Lord Krsna."

Then he somewhat humorously said, "Only Mr. Nair will not be there." Of course we know that even Mr. Nair most probably repented his taking any opposing position to our Srila Prabhupada, and his wife was said to have sought Srila Prabhupada's forgiveness on behalf of her rascal husband later on.

My point is, though, that it was very evident to me that all the devotees who assisted me and/or offered their kind words of encouragement and heartfelt prayers did so specifically on account of our mutual history together as aspiring servants of His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada. Therefore I want to say to all of you "Thank you" for helping me to continue on with my aspirations as they pertain to pleasing our Srila Prabhupada.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

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I cannot repay your efforts with an equal amount of money or favor. Neither do I expect that anyone of you ever expected anything like that. I am more aware than ever that just as you took the opportunity to help me when it was most needed, you all hope that I will reciprocate with your efforts by multiplying my efforts to act upon the restoration of my health with an ever greater commitment to the chanting of the Holy Name and the distribution of Srila Prabhupada's merciful glorification of Sri Sri Radha/Govinda, Sri Sri Nitai Gauranga, and our Parampara contained within all of his books.

I want to assure all of you that this is my most heartfelt intention. Please rest assured that I am well aware of precisely why the Lord has so kindly allowed me to regain my health, and I only ask all of you to pray with an equal measure of urgency to Lord Chaitanya and His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada for their vigilant protection of my Krsna Consciousness with every bit as much care and capacity as they have done for my temporary material body.

I also pray that I may be given the opportunity to assist any of you in your service in some capacity or another in the future, even if that would only mean chanting together in kirtan before Their Lordships.

In the end, it is the service of the devotees who have dedicated themselves to the propagation of the Holy Name that brings about our full-blown realization of the perfection of Krsna Consciousness. So if I can serve all of you in some small way by being instrumental in helping yours or anyone's faith in the Holy Name and His emissary Srila Prabhupada to manifest and/or increase, then your efforts to help me correct my physical setback will have been successful.

I want you all to know that by the kind mercy of Lord Chaitanya and our Srila Prabhupada, I have been allowed once again the pleasure of distributing some two to three hundred small books for Srila Prabhupada each week and am fully able to attend the morning program with renewed vigor and strength. So I have been given a reprieve for some time, and I want to thank all of you who assisted me during this test or lesson from the Lord.

I look forward to serving our Srila Prabhupada with all of you, directly or indirectly, Krsna willing, for a long time to come.

Sincerely,
Praghosa Das ACBSP

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