I am very glad that Krsna has sent so many nice boys and girls to help me. Be blessed on this auspicious day. And there is nothing mine. I am simply a postal peon. I am delivering to you what I have heard from my Guru Maharaja. Simply you also act in the same way, and you will be happy, and the world will be happy, and Krsna will be happy, and everything will be… [end]

From Srila Prabhupada’s lecture on Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Appearance Day, Lecture — February 7, 1969, Los Angeles