Mexico City

When someone saves your life, how can you best thank him? Can he be repaid with gold coins or sweet words? By offering your bank-balance and humble supplications you were not able to dissuade cruel death from carrying you away, for your things are of little value. He who saved you gave you the most valuable thing, your life. But we are such rascals that we think to pay off our debt with a few trinkets, and continue on our merry way as if nothing had happened.

All living entities in the material world are struggling very hard. Sometimes they are happy; other times, when they are afflicted with the threefold miseries, they are distressed. We had no knowledge or faith in the spiritual path. Our fate was sealed by the unretractable law of karma. Blind to the brilliant sun of Vedic knowledge, we were quite content to glide down the royal path to hell. We were quite deep in the dark pit of material existence, entrapped in the coils of eternal time (kala-sarpa), resigned to die.

But due to some cause indeterminable by us, we met Your Divine Grace. Parvata-muni explains that the pure devotees like you good self are touchstones, because by the slight touch of your association anyone can be converted into a great devotee also. Sukadeva Goswami explains the same; that any living being, no matter how sinful, even an animal, by service unto a maha-bhagavata, can come to know scientifically about the Personality of Godhead and thus free himself from the path of birth and death. We want a prolonged life in this world to continue on the path of preyaḥ, but in your association we have tasted a moment of full consciousness. Therefore we are now on the sreya-pantha engaged in brahma-jijnasa, for you have taught us that vasudeva-para gatiḥ.

We, the Mexican people, are descendents of the raksasa enemies of the Personality of Godhead Sri Rama. After Ravana had been killed, those demoniac followers who survived fled to this land and founded our civilization. Even so, we have great hope of attaining krsna-prem, as Sanatana Goswami says:

tatha diksa-vidhanena
dvijatvam jayate nrnam

"By being properly trained and initiated by a bona fide spiritual master one immediately gets his spiritual birth."

Vyasadeva explains that just as the sun is all-pervading in this universe, and the air penetrates into the innermost region of everyone, so the spiritual master enters as if he were the Supersoul Himself. We are so conditioned that we cannot take instruction form the antaryami (God as the dearmost friend and guide within the heart of the living being). Paramatma is the embodiment of sad-cit or full transcendental knowledge. So you have come, the external manifestation of Himself, holding the shining torchlight of knowledge, just to lead us back to the paramdhama.

Godhead says to surrender to His pure devotee to learn the truth about Him. Actually this is a timeless principle of devotional service, and not a modern cheating invention for monetary profit. The Bhagavatam says: "nityam bhagavata-sevaya." Service unto the pure devotees is the way of great men on the path of purification. But what is the nature of that service? The Supreme Lord instructs Arjuna throughout the Bhagavad-gita in this matter:

"Engage your mind always in thinking of Me, become My devotee. Worship Me and offer your homage unto Me."

"O son of Kunti, all that you do, all that you eat, all that you offer and give away, as well as all austerities that you may perform, should be done as an offering unto Me."

Krsna also gives the very same instructions to Lord Brahma:

"The people of the world act ceaselessly in pursuance of some ideal. By meditating on Me through these deeds one will obtain devotion characterized by love in the shape of devotional service."

But how can we, the lowest of the low and most materially contaminated of the mundane entities expect to render such pure service to the Lord? Therefore God has said that bhakta-seva is Krsna-seva. By dedicating the very fiber of our existence to your service we can at once serve Bhagavan, and maybe then begin to return what you have given us.

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