A Toast to Prabhupada

by Jivananda dasa

Lift your cups of nectar Prasad

And let’s have a toast.

To our pride in our wonderful guru

And Krsna let us boast.

Krsna hears every maha-mantra

And he sees every devotional act.

He will never forget them, my Prabus

And that’s an honest fact.

He is always calling us

But it might take a million years.

Our hearts push us playfully

To Him we hold so dear.

Don’t wonder why we find ourselves in prison

It’s all part of Krsna’s plan.

By guru’s mercy we’ll come to Him

It’s by Prabhupada’s grace we can.

We’ve roamed the many universes

So many lives we have spun.

But the distance we’ve come to find guru

Is much greater than from here to the end.

But let’s not tip our cups in our victory

It’s by nothing that we’ve done.

Because it’s all by his causeless mercy

It’s by guru’s grace that we’ve won!