Prayers Written by Çréla Prabhupäda aboard the Jaladuta

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Hare Krishna,

 

PAMHO, AGTSP

 

Kindly , glorify Srila Parbhupada on his disappearance day by reciting Prayers

written by him on the Jaladuta.

PS use font type 'Balarama' or 'Sca Goudy' to read the text below.

 

Your servant in Mission of Srila Prabhupada

 

Nanda Gopal dasa

 

Prayers

 

Written by Çréla Prabhupäda

 

aboard the Jaladuta

 

JD 8.1: Prayer to the Lotus Feet of Krsna

 

Prayer to the Lotus Feet of Krsna

 

by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupäda

 

on board the ship Jaladuta, September 13, 1965

 

(refrain)

 

 

 

I emphatically say to you, O brothers, you will obtain your good fortune from

the Supreme Lord Kåñëa only when Çrématé Rädhäräëé becomes pleased with you.

Çré Çrémad Bhaktisiddhänta Sarasvaté Öhäkura, who is very dear to Lord

Gauräìga, the son of mother Çacé, is unparalleled in his service to the Supreme

Lord Çré Kåñëa. He is that great saintly spiritual master who bestows intense

devotion to Kåñëa at different places throughout the world.

 

By his strong desire, the holy name of Lord Gauräìga will spread throughout all

the countries of the Western world. In all the cities, towns, and villages on

the earth, from all the oceans, seas, rivers, and streams, everyone will chant

the holy name of Kåñëa. As the vast mercy of Çré Caitanya Mahäprabhu conquers

all directions, a flood of transcendental ecstasy will certainly cover the

land. When all the sinful, miserable living entities become happy, the

Vaiñëavas' desire is then fulfilled.

 

 

 

Although my Guru Mahäräja ordered me to accomplish this mission, I am not

worthy or fit to do it. I am very fallen and insignificant. Therefore, O Lord,

now I am begging for Your mercy so that I may become worthy, for You are the

wisest and most experienced of all. If You bestow Your power, by serving the

spiritual master one attains the Absolute Truth-one's life becomes successful.

If that service is obtained, then one becomes happy and gets Your association

due to good fortune. My dear Lord, O Supreme Personality of Godhead, because of

my association with material desires, one after another, I was gradually

falling into a blind well full of snakes, following the general populace. But

Your servant Närada Muni kindly accepted me as his disciple and instructed me

how to achieve this transcendental position. Therefore, my first duty is to

serve him. How could I leave his service? (Prahläda Mahäräja to Lord

Nåsiàhadeva, Bhäg. 7.9.28)

 

 

 

O Lord Kåñëa, You are my eternal companion. Forgetting You, I have suffered

the kicks of mäyä birth after birth. If today the chance to meet You occurs

again, then I will surely be able to rejoin You. O dear friend, in Your company

I will experience great joy once again. In the early morning I will wander

about the cowherd pastures and fields. Running and frolicking in the many

forests of Vraja, I will roll on the ground in spiritual ecstasy. Oh when will

that day be mine? Today that remembrance of You came to me in a very nice way.

Because I have a great longing I called to You. I am Your eternal servant and

therefore I desire Your association so much. O Lord Kåñëa, except for You there

is no other means of success.

 

 

 

JD 8.2: Märkine Bhägavata-dharma

 

Märkine Bhägavata-dharma

 

by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupäda

 

at Boston Harbor, September 18, 1965

 

 

 

My dear Lord Kåñëa, You are so kind upon this useless soul, but I do not know

why You have brought me here. Now You can do whatever You like with me. But I

guess You have some business here, otherwise why would You bring me to this

terrible place? Most of the population here is covered by the material modes of

ignorance and passion. Absorbed in material life, they think themselves very

happy and satisfied, and therefore they have no taste for the transcendental

message of Väsudeva. I do not know how they will be able to understand it. But

I know Your causeless mercy can make everything possible because You are the

most expert mystic.

 

 

 

How will they understand the mellows of devotional service? O Lord, I am simply

praying for Your mercy so that I will be able to convince them about Your

message. All living entities have become under the control of the illusory

energy by Your will, and therefore, if You like, by Your will they can also be

released from the clutches of illusion. I wish that You may deliver them.

Therefore if You so desire their deliverance, then only will they be able to

understand Your message. The words of Çrémad-Bhägavatam are Your incarnation,

and if a sober person repeatedly receives it with submissive aural reception,

then he will be able to understand Your message.

 

 

 

It is said in the Srémad-Bhägavatam (1.2.17-21):

 

"Çré Kåñëa, the Personality of Godhead, who is the Paramätmä [supersoul] in

everyone's heart and the benefactor of the truthful devotee, cleanses desire

for material enjoyment from the heart of the devotee who has developed the urge

to hear His messages, which are in themselves virtuous when properly heard and

chanted. By regular attendance in classes on the Bhägavatam and by rendering of

service to the pure devotee, all that is troublesome to the heart is almost

completely destroyed, and loving service unto the Personality of Godhead, who

is praised with transcendental songs, is established as an irrevocable fact. As

soon as irrevocable loving service is established in the heart, the effects of

nature's modes of passion and ignorance, such as lust, desire and hankering,

disappear from the heart. Then the devotee is established in goodness, and he

becomes completely happy. Thus established in the mode of unalloyed goodness,

the man whose mind has been enlivened by contact with devotional service to the

Lord gains positive scientific knowledge of the Personality of Godhead in the

stage of liberation from all material association. Thus the knot in the heart

is pierced, and all misgivings are cut to pieces. The chain of fruitive actions

is terminated when one sees the self as master."

 

 

 

He will become liberated from the influence of the modes of ignorance and

passion and thus all inauspicious things accumulated in the core of the heart

will disappear.How will I make them understand this message of Kåñëa

consciousness? I am very unfortunate, unqualified and the most fallen.

Therefore I am seeking Your benediction so that I can convince them, for I am

powerless to do so on my own. Somehow or other, O Lord, You have brought me

here to speak about You. Now, my Lord, it is up to You to make me a success or

failure as You like. O spiritual master of all the worlds! I can simply repeat

Your message, so if You like You can make my power of speaking suitable for

their understanding.

 

 

 

 

Only by Your causeless mercy will my words become pure. I am sure that when

this transcendental message penetrates their hearts they will certainly feel

engladdened and thus become liberated from all unhappy conditions of life. O

Lord, I am just like a puppet in Your hands. So if You have brought me here to

dance, then make me dance, make me dance, O Lord, make me dance as You like. I

have no devotion, nor do I have any knowledge, but I have strong faith in the

holy name of Kåñëa. I have been designated as Bhaktivedänta, and now, if You

like, You can fulfill the real purport of Bhaktivedänta.

 

 

 

Signed-the most unfortunate, insignificant beggar

 

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami,

 

on board the ship Jaladuta, Commonwealth Pier,

 

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

 

dated 18th of September, 1965

 

JD 9: INDIA'S MESSAGE OF PEACE AND GOODWILL