from bhaktin Evelyn Lakatos – Hungary, Budapest

My dearest Gurudeva,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada, all glories to you.

First of all, I would like to wish you a very happy birthday and thank you for the opportunity of being able to say again how perfect and pure you are, and how gracious you are to every fallen soul, including me.

Thank you for helping me to understand what Krishna Consciousness really is. Thank you for allowing me to associate with you personally last year, and thank you for accepting me as your disciple (I hope maybe one day I will be worthy of it and grow to the task, and I promise I won’t stop trying) and giving your blessing to my marriage.

You gave me the most beautiful, most spiritual experience of my life back then. I will be eternally grateful to Krishna for you being there for me, for us, for all the devotees. The way you take care of everyone and give everyone without exception the love that just flows out of you so freely is amazing. Thank you for being a perfect guru. Even in the most difficult situation, your purpose in life
is to help others, this is our great luck!
Thank you for always being there, we can count on you. Thank you for your
webinars, they help a lot in these trying times. Thank you for being on the task with all your strength to get us back to God. Thank you for bringing me closer and closer to Srila Prabhupada and Krishna. Thank you for having faith in your disciples and thank you for having such wonderful godbrothers and godsisters.

In one of your classes, back in the days in New Vraja Dhama, you jokingly said that you didn’t even want to come to Hungary, but you were called by Srila Sivarama Maharaja and your dear godbrothers to welcome Radha and Krishna Deities on the farm and you couldn’t say no, so you obtained a chance to come every year there for your disciples. Everyone laughed.

I wish you could come every year in the future! Those old times were so good when devotees had so many opportunities to be with you. It’s been a year since we met at Woodstock and I’m grieving that we probably won’t be able to meet this year.

Please give me your mercy so that I can progress greatly in my spiritual life and not disappoint you.

Take great care of yourself and once again: wishing the Happiest Birthday to you!

Your eternal servant, bhaktin Evelyn Lakatos