Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Siddhaswarupananda - Practical Wisdom

Let us bow down at full length to the Acharya or Gurudeva (the preceptor) Who is no other than the associated counterpart of the Supreme Lord Himself and Who, being kindness incarnate, is ever busy in kindly operating on the cataractous eye of ignorance of all jivas (souls, jivatmas) with the spike of true knowledge, thus openeth their eternal spiritual eyes and anointeth them with the collyrium of pure, disinterested and unsmitten love of Krishna (The Most Pleasing Attractor), stopping further attacks and enabling them to see Him face to face in His blissful Abode.

Let us kiss over and over again the dust of the holy feet of the devotees of Krishna who like Purpose-trees (Kalpataru) yield the fruition of all our devotional desires, and who are oceans of kindness and purifiers of the fallen.

Let us prostrate before Him Who is the most munificent, the free-giver of the love of Krishna - Who is Krishna Himself, Whose name is Krishna-Chaitanya, the glow of Whose body dims the lustre of liquid gold and the graceful glance of Whose lotus-eyes makes the devotees look upon annihilations (conscious and unconscious) as hellish existences, heaven as a castle in the air, the unsatiable and unconquerable organs of sense and action as venomous serpents devoid of poison-fangs and the universe as a blissful abode.