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Service in separation is union in separation. Service renders physical laws elastic. Time and space repair to the background, and devotional service stands exalted. Association through sound, the spiritual master in sound, never leaves, never is lost or forgotten. The constant unexpected guide, the art of service, is to hear. Real hearing. To hear and immediately assimilate in the mind and senses and then to manifest the sound in service-that is "hearing". Hearing that stops when the speaker stops is not hearing. It is listening, merely a sensation. Srila Prabhupada's tongue and lips and voice are not limited. They have no beginning and never end in the hearts of those who can hear. Just like electricity carried by different conductors (aluminum and copper conduct but also resist electricity; it is not until we come to silver and platinum that there is no resistance), some things are revealed from master to disciple, and others, due to the contamination of envy, are resisted or temporarily blocked. But the iron is getting hotter, and soon it will be redhot-because his fire is very hot, because he is the pure conductor of the descending fruit of Bhagavata-rasa, to be drunk through our ears and passed on to those dehydrated on the desert of void, in the rasaless realm of nirakara (formlessness). Ideas which harbor all misunderstandings are cultured there. And the seeds of devotion fructify very slowly in such a desert. But he sends rain: his voice rains down torrents to enrich us. Srnvatam sva-kathaḥ-krsnaḥ: "Just hear about Krsna, talk about Krsna, sing about Krsna, cry for Krsna. Krsna Krsna Krsna." Prabhupada in kirtana is pouring rain upon us that we may grow and bear fruits, sing and inspire dancing, write and be read, speak and be heard by those who can "hear". Srila Prabhupada, when will we hear you? "When you are willing to hear like Maharaja Pariksit. When you desire to hear more than any other thing. When you are pure enough to transmit what I say intact. When you can hear me even when I am not physically present before you. Then it is real hearing, hearing and chanting. Our mission is to make people hear and chant, but first you must learn to hear."    (More...)