From bhaktin Maria Glebova – Russia, Saint Petersburg

Dear Srila Indradyumna Swami Maharaja,
Please accept my obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet.
You don’t know me, but by Lord’s causeless mercy I am lucky to write this offering to you personally.
Just as one can see father’s features at his son’s face, I can see Srila Prabhupada’s compassionate and brave spirit in you, and therefore I can realize who our dearly beloved acarya was. One of his wonderful qualities was his deep love for children that lives in your heart, too.
It’s a real wonder that at the previous Vyasa Puja in St. Petersburg, when my mind surrendered to my heart and to you, I was preparing a two-hour program for children. I didn’t know that time that you have such a sweet attitude towards Vaisnava children. And when I knew that, I realized that the heart never lied.
Dear Guru Maharaja, at the previous Sadhu Sanga festival I asked for your blessings to work with ISKCON teenagers. And Krishna manifested thanks to you. The devotees from Krasnodar organized the “Bhakti Quest” project and I happened to lead the first group and after that I was honored to start working on leadership classes. But it’s nothing but a first step. The Polish tour, your great creation, inspires to think on a different scale.
My dream is to create a national teenager project that will include seminars in different cities, pilgrimage to the Holy Dham, etc., to make teenagers happy in the family of ISKCON and to keep them near to Krishna lotus feet. Now I have seven young girls under my guidance, and they are also eager to start the teenager movement just like me. The power of the heart’s fire is strong and I believe that the only thing that keeps us from the big movement is time.
Please let me be among the warriors of light that fight at your command, I want to become a humble servant that is forever indebted to the compassionate Vaisnavas.
On your appearance day let me offer my heart to you though it being conditioned.
I wish you to be the fire that lights the hearts of thousands of people with Krishna Consciousness, and I’ll be trying to help you like a small squirrel that built a bridge to Lanka.
Please accept my heartfelt obeisances.
Your insignificant servant, bhaktin Maria Glebova