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All glories to Srila Prabhupada and Srila Guru Maharaj!

Dear devotees and friends,
Please accept my blessings.

Finally, by the mercy of Srimati Radharani, we have come to Vrindavan.

The nectar to have a personal relation with God has very often been secret or hidden by the arrangement of the Lord himself. To become one with God, or to become Brahma, the position of the creator or of Lord Shiva and his extraordinary position in this world, can be achieved by the jiva. The supreme Lord wants that only the devotees of exclusive dedication can understand the importance of the treasure of Bhakti. The very offers of the Vedas, the Jñana Yoga, in its great majority serves only the masculine vanity or the desire to dominate. Therefore one should not be surprised that a great majority of the people do not have any attraction for the dedicated spiritual life. Quite contrary, they walk in the fantasy of how to become the maximum and do not pray with sincerity, with a deep prayer from the heart to God, Krishna. This internal guide is the most valuable that we have. It is the greatest existing pleasure of the soul and the only thing required to do it is to pray with faith, with surrender.

To talk with God every day

This world is to fear, but fortunately we can pray to the Lord with sincerity. Those who want to save themselves will be lost in their incapacity, and therefore is the process of Lord Caitanya to chant the Maha mantra. It is so marvellous to be determined to talk with God everyday, to ask Him for service, to pray that He makes us an instrument for His love. The idea to talk with God is not to make Him requests or bother Him with fugitive things, but to establish a deep relation, sincere and loving, because if you only ask for insignificant things, the Lord will direct your faith in other directions. But if you ask him for pure love, this certainly is a request that is irresistible for the Lord, because He is totally addicted to pure love.

We all like to be loved, to be admired. This nature comes from within God as well, and the perfect meeting is in Bhakti, in the life of love, a transformation of our person to a completely loving person.

Loving metality

All of this is available for all the living entities, but most people do not know anything about this; they rather kill for money. Then the merciful Vaisnavas take to their heart the task to bring the invitation of pure love to people and to try to contaminate the world with their own loving mentality. This is the essence of the mission of Srila Prabhupada, and all other activities and paraphernalia should be sub-servants of this unique goal. So what is the most important, then? Distribute books in the street or to lovingly receive the people who come to the temple? Do they notice? Love is something like the mother with her child; everything has to go well all the time. A mother do not have even 15 minutes free when she does not attend the urgency of her child, and any woman knows this perfectly.

An exclusive gift

Then, when we talk about loving devotional service and about becoming sincere devotees, it is major words. The compromise is 24 hours; if it is not like that, what would it be? Is it that our decision to go to the spiritual world and eternally serve the Lord is less than the love that all mothers have for their children? THOSE WHO UNDERSTAND THIS ARE TRUE LEADERS OF THE TEMPLES. So finally, this kind of quality of consciousness is an exclusive gift. It is not that you can do it just because of your own means. When the causeless mercy descends, we will find this kind of dedication or we will meet those who have this grade of dedication, but we have to encourage all devotees on all levels, one mustn't be stingy.

Who knows how many lives we have already been trying to get out of here, and even like that the mind tries to distract us with the same offers of the same chewing gums we have already chewed for so long time. Here in this world, we met Srila Prabhupada and the Holy Name, so we cannot complain that it was reason enough to come. We will try to take advantage of His loving invitation.

Always your well-wisher,
Swami B.A. Paramadvaiti
Vrindavana - India