I pray at the lotus feet of my Srila Gurudeva, to whom the truth is the intimate friend:“Please make my endeavour fruitful. I do not need to mention that my motivation is not to acquire fame or respect, yet I herein mention the same. I do not need to mention to you that I do not want to be considered the proprietor of this knowledge, yet I herein mention the same.
“My heart is polluted by desires I wish I did not have and my mind is distorted by countless lifetimes of impurity, but I simply beg you to alleviate the burden I feel to prove what I am setting out to prove, by personally proving it through me.”
I pray to Srila Baladeva Vidyabhusana and Srila Jiva Gosvami:
“You are the protectors of the pristine Gaudiya conception. I am like a lump of stool. Why do I think I should contribute anything to what you have already given? Simply I think I should translate what you have taught into the modern vernacular.
“Please empower me to accomplish what I am setting out to accomplish. If you do not want it, it cannot happen, and if you do want it, it cannot but happen.”
Finally, and foremost, I pray at the divine lotus feet of Srila Rupa Gosvami:
“Please somehow use me, a most wretched fool, in some kind of service to the Divine Goddess. What is the use of any activity if it is not ultimately meant just to serve Her? What else but serving Her is the crown-jewel of all forms of making God happy? And who else but you can admit someone into the art of serving Her?
“I am helpless and useless, and standing in front of you, I simply fall at your feet like a dead stick. I have nothing to offer. Please infuse me with something meaningful so that I can offer it to your Svamini, simply out of your causeless kindness to me, a lowly and insignificant creature.”
