Published below is a letter submitted by Hari Kirttan Prabhu glorifying his friend and co-servitor Sripad Vaishnav Maharaj.

Sometimes it is difficult to understand how this world works, and much moreso when
pain takes place and all the words of wisdom sound the same. But the thing is: no
matter what we do or understand, the universe is running with the Lord’s law, playing
the game of the absolute where players come and players go according to His wish and
whim. Only He is the big player.
Even though we are trapped beneath the skin, fortunately this innate situation does not
last forever. Death is coming to give us a new opportunity and a new adventure in the
beautiful creation of the supreme lover. This is not poetry or a philosophy, but is the real
and eternal journey of the living entity.
In this life or in this occasion of my wonderful journey, I met in California USA a beautiful
soul who gave me his friendship, his heart, his hands. He opened the door of his house
to give me and my family a wonderful shelter when I need it the most in order to stay
with Govinda Mj in California. At that time he didn’t even know me, but he did not care
about anything except sheer devotional issues and association for the service of our
beautiful friend Srila Govinda Mj in the early days. He never asked for anything, but
instead was always ready to give everything he had just to encouage others to go for
their own benefit.
I remember Govinda Mj saying that when He woke up from the operation in Mexico the
first person he saw was him.
So this is one great opportunity for me to honor my very good friend, who is a super
wonderful and beautiful soul, none other than Sripad Bhakti Sharan Vaisnava Mj.
He was, is, and will be a great Vaisnava; he honors his name because he is a real
Vaisnava.
But absolute time has taken him to a better place where he deserves to be, and for
sure Srila Prabhupad, Srila Sridhar Mj and Srila Govinda Mj are dancing to see him in
his new opportunity using a new skin in a new body.
For now we are separate in time and space but I pray to the supreme Player to allow
me to find him again, together with my most special Guru and best friend Srila Govinda
Mj.
So my respectful affection To Srpad B. S. Vaisnava Mj, remembering this verse:

OM TAD VISHNU PARAMAM PADAM SADA
PASHYANTI SURAYO DIVIVA CAKSHUR ATATAM
The Divine feet of our Lord are like the sun above our heads. His holy feet are like the
vigilant eye of a grand guardian hanging over our heads like the sun and we are living
beneath the glance of that vigilant eye.