From bhakta Aleksandr Vladykinskiy

Dear Srila Indradyumna Swami,

Please accept my humble obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

I had a great honor to make an offering to you on this auspicious day of your Vyasa Puja. I would never dare to have it published it as I consider myself unqualified and unworthy of such a privilege, but my godbrothers and godsisters kindly provided me with such an opportunity. By their mercy I’m happy to try to glorify your Divine Grace. Please give me your blessing to pour all my sincerity in these words.

Dear Srila Indradyumna Swami! The persons like you, who are always engaged in continuous and selfless pure devotional service, are actually worth of constant glorification. I was so lucky to meet you, a pure devotee of the Lord, as I was wandering in this vicious, envious and deceitful world. The priceless treasure of love to God is in your hands and you are so generous to distribute it.
Your devotion to Srila Prabhupada and the way you wholeheartedly dedicate
yourself to the distribution of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s message makes you an example of the perfect loving Servant of the great Master for me. The
standard of yours gives us inexhaustible inspiration on our spiritual path. The souls that are saved by you and brought to the lotus feet of our param-guru Srila Prabhupada are innumerable. There are really a great many of them.

As you are so fearless and selfless to distribute the yuga-dharma, the congregational chanting of the Holy Name, one can hardly find a place on the globe that you haven’t been to. Even the people that are not members of our Society know about your preaching in Europe and your famous Ratha- yatra festivals. The stories in the “Diary of the Travelling Monk” illustrate the power of association with a pure devotee of the Lord, which change people’s hearts and lives. You are a real warrior of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s sankirtan mission for me.

The webinars you’re giving during the pandemic are like a gulp of fresh water in the desert. Your instructions and stories about the qualities and pastimes of the Lord and His devotees are the best source of enthusiasm; they never let us sink into despair. One can feel your deep love and concern for our spiritual welfare even through the monitor. As we feel it, we naturally tend to be grateful to you and wishing to render service to you. Dear Srila Gurudeva, thank you so much for your mercy which evokes such high feelings and desires in my small heart.

Krishna talks of Himself in Bhagavad Gita as of the friend and well-wisher of all living beings; the Spiritual master is therefore in the same way benevolent to all fallen and conditioned souls. Once you said that the Spiritual master was a person whose heart cared about us and our interests, even if we were not aware of it. Dear Srila Gurudeva, thank you so much for reminding me of my eternal interests, jīvera ‘svarūpa’ haya — kṛṣṇera ‘nitya-dāsa’; of myself being an eternal servant of Krishna.

Only by serving your lotus feet by your mercy I can comprehend the real service to the Lord. My worthless life gains so much sense and joy when I find opportunity to serve you. By the mercy of my senior godbrothers and godsisters I am so lucky to obtain such an opportunity, and I consider it my only real treasure.

Dear Srila Gurudeva, please give me your blessings for a continuous and determined service to you, in the manner you serve our glorified eternal well- wisher Srila Prabhupada.

Your insignificant servant, bhakta Aleksandr Vladykinskiy