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By Kr\u0323s\u0323n\u0323\u0101bhis\u0323eka D\u0101sa<\/strong> <\/p>\n My Dear Mah\u0101r\u0101ja,<\/p>\n Dand\u0323avat. All glories to Your Divine Grace. Jaya \u015ar\u012bla Prabhup\u0101da. <\/p>\n Although I have met your several times until March 2006, I have never written any letter to you. I hope and pray that you will accept this posthumous offering at your lotus feet. <\/p>\n As I sat for my work today one e-mail popped from my dear god-brother in Calcutta, Shy\u0101m\u0101raman\u0323a d\u0101sa. The news of your passing away came a bit untimely and unexpectedly. For a long moment I cast away all the work that I was doing and meditated on the lesson that you were teaching me : we have to be Kr\u0323s\u0323n\u0323a conscious every moment. It might be my turn next. Who knows ? You are an \u0100c\u0101rya in your glorious passing as much as you were while you walked this planet. <\/p>\n Mah\u0101r\u0101ja, faint memories come flooding back as I meditate on your glorious passing. It is so wonderful that despite not being our body we take such pleasure in the philosophy of personalism through intimate association Vais\u0323n\u0323avas. Your life was a living lesson. Although I didn\u2019t get your association the way some of your disciples, friends or well wishers did, I salute you from a distance with a pained heart. You are, in more than many ways, my hero. You are an \u0100c\u0101rya in your glorious passing as much as you were while you walked this planet. <\/p>\n I don\u2019t remember the first time I met you: it was probably in the M\u0101y\u0101pura Candrodaya temple, probably back in the early 90s. I have seen you many times since then. I, however, remember you the last time I saw you. You had walked out of the Bhaktived\u0101nta Institute bus that stood on one of the parks of the Candrodaya temple. Although I had been re-introduced to you by Shy\u0101m\u0101raman\u0323a prabhu, your disciple Shy\u0101m\u0101r\u0101ni\u2019s brother, I had not been able to talk to you at that moment. I took the opportunity to talk to you when I saw you coming out of the bus. I never thought that it would be my last meeting with you. You had asked me about my service and I remember you hearing, thinking and responding back when I said that HH Tam\u0101l Kr\u0323s\u0323n\u0323a Gosv\u0101m\u012b, my spiritual master, had encouraged me to \u201cfollow up\u201d his academic work and preaching. I remember your encouragement and am thankful for your blessings for being able to do this service at Oxford University right now. I look up to you as one of the first academic preachers in ISKCON, and understand through your example how much \u015ar\u012bla Prabhup\u0101da wanted some devotees to talk to atheistic professors, scholars and scientists presenting them pure Kr\u0323s\u0323n\u0323a Consciousness in their own language. You are an \u0100c\u0101rya in your glorious passing as much as you were while you walked this planet. <\/p>\n Beyond all that, Mah\u0101r\u0101ja, I know your heart is always with Kr\u0323s\u0323n\u0323a and his dear devotees, especially \u015ar\u012bla Prabhup\u0101da. Please bless me that no matter how much I falter in my attempts to be steady devotee, one day I can follow your footsteps and make my life successful by remembering Kr\u0323s\u0323n\u0323a intensely with loving devotion when I leave my body.<\/p>\n You have set an example for everybody in your passing : like your own spiritual master you were in the battlefield till the last moment. Like \u015ar\u012bla Bhaktisiddh\u0101nta Saraswati Prabhup\u0101da you left your body in Calcutta while preaching. I admire you as my s\u0323iks\u0101 guru and look up to you with awe and reverence. You are an \u0100c\u0101rya in your glorious passing as much as you were while you walked this planet. <\/p>\n The next time I see you on this planet, you would be situated in sam\u0101dhi in your well deserved and rightful place : on the banks of R\u0101dh\u0101 Kund\u0323a. The next time I shall perform circumambulation of the holy dh\u0101ma of Vr\u0323nd\u0101vana, I shall surely come and pray for your inspiration that I may never be diverted from my service or be diverted from Kr\u0323s\u0323n\u0323a by making my service a material affair. Please bless me so that one day I can become perfect one day and join you and your other godbrothers in nitya-l\u012bl\u0101 as a subservient assistant. For you are an \u0100c\u0101rya in your glorious passing as much as you were while you walked this planet. <\/p>\n \nYour spiritual nephew <\/p>\n Kr\u0323s\u0323n\u0323\u0101bhis\u0323eka d\u0101sa <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Please bless me that no matter how much I falter in my attempts to be steady devotee, one day I can follow your footsteps and make my life successful by remembering Krishna intensely with loving devotion when I leave my body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-memoriam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Hare](\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSCN7xs854.jpg\")
By Krishna – bhiseka dasa <\/strong><\/p>\n