Hare Krishna, it’s my great honor to glorify Mity Krishnamayi Devi Dasi. And what a, and I think it’ll come out in my glorification of her, what a fitting name. That’s from the Caitanya-caritamrita. Krishnamayi means one who is filled with Krishna. And I’ll start, you know, I first met her, she was with the first group of Iranian devotees that came to Vrindavan. And I had the honor of taking them around. And I was so impressed, you know, I have to say, we’re all coming from kind of hippie backgrounds. And these people just look so pure and dynamic and high class in a sense, in a good sense, cultured, I would say, that’s a better sense. So I immediately took a liking and my service in Vrindavan has always been taking people around. I have the saying that faith is trust by experience. So I’d like to give people that faith by giving them an experience of the holy dham. And I, you know, I took them around and the best might, and Siddheshwari just sent me the picture that I was always looking for of me in Govardhana with those devotees. But I’d like to honor Krishnamayi very sincerely and deeply from my heart with a glorification of a pilgrim. And I’m going to explain that glorification. I’m going to name it, explain how I got that idea of glorifying a pilgrim, and then explain it in terms of Krishnamayi. And the praise is the pilgrim, like a piece of cotton in water. And I got this when his holiness Satcharupamaraj visited Vrindavan and he was, so many people came to see him. They never really got to go out and appreciate Vrindavan so much. And Siddheshwari, His Holiness Satcharupamaraj came to him and said, “You should keep Vrindavan sacred.” And he said, “It’s not as important how much time you’re there, but what you absorb.” He said some devotees can be like a rock in water. A rock can stay in water for hundreds of years and not absorb anything. But a piece of cotton in water can absorb something fully. So he said, “It’s so important to come here in a quality way.” Now this is how I feel Krishnamayi. I’m so impressed with her. And I’ll tell you the story how this applies. When she was passing away, I got a message from her great Siddheshwari and she was telling a story that, you know, Krishnamayi was her life and the spiritual life. She was so indebted. She was trying to help care for her. And she was telling her, “Please try to remember Krishna Leela.” And then she told the story how she came to Vrindavan the first time and that I spoke Krishna Leela to them. And it went deeply into her heart. She described it. And this is, I guess, when she’s very ill, you know, going in and out of consciousness and explained at that particular time, she was so deeply absorbed at Krishna Leela that she prayed that she could give this in the Persian language. And when I heard that, I was so impressed. I wasn’t impressed with my Krishna kata. Honestly, I don’t

think it was so evolved at that time. I was impressed with this devotee who came, first of all, I was so amazed coming from countries where you can’t practice. And she came for just a short time at that time. And honestly speaking, I tell you frankly, she absorbed water. In that short time she was there, I’ve been Vrindavan for 47 years. Honestly, I can say that. So I’m just so grateful to honor this cotton and water pilgrim. It’s such an exceptional thing. And certainly now, one who has that kind of consciousness and remembrance of death that is still in our heart, that experience that gave her so much faith, and I’m sure that faith has carried her directly to the pastimes of Krishna. Hare Krishna, thank you so much.