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Imported quote 16651 Srila Narottama dasa Thakura has sung of the spiritual master, "He is my lord, birth after birth." Srila Prabhupada, I know that you are eternally perfect, nitya-siddha, and that you appeared in the material world out of causeless compassion for the forgetful souls entrapped within the false bodily conception of life. You have come to illuminate this dark world with knowledge. I, however, am one of the living entities who are called nitya-baddha. Life after life, since time immemorial, I have forgotten Krsna. Actually there are innumerable living entities in this material world, and they are all marked with the propensity to try to Lord it over the material nature. Sometime such deluded living entities are garlanded and proclaimed as eminent scientists or proud philosophers or leaders among men. But they are all servants of the temporary, ignorant and miserable material energy, and they cannot relieve themselves or anyone else from the shackles of birth, death, old age, or disease. Birth after birth, I have followed such blind leaders, and thus I have tumbled head over heels into the ditch of ignorance, always forgetful of Krsna and His causeless mercy. But somehow or other, by your divine grace, I have again become conscious. You are therefore my eternal spiritual master. I will always treasure the opportunity I had of seeing you, hearing you, and touching your lotus feet. But I am beginning to understand more and more that the real association of the disciple with the spiritual master takes place on the platform of service. I saw you before me, but now I can understand that whoever was in relation with you was so on the platform of eternal service. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati writes, "The materialistic demeanour cannot possibly stretch to the Transcendental Autocrat who is ever inviting the fallen conditioned souls to associate with Him through devotion or eternal serving mood." (Foreword to Sri Brahma-samhita) Krsna is eternal, His devotion is eternal, and so the spiritual master is ever existing on that transcendental platform of service, ever accepting the sincere endeavors of the fallen conditioned living entities to serve the Supreme Lord. In this way, your every gesture, your every word is simply reiterating the same thing: "Serve Krsna." What do I know of Krsna? I only know you, Srila Prabhupada, and I am begging you to keep me occupied in your service, not just this lifetime, but in unending time and eternal existence.
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