Port Royal

Srila Prabhupada,

Of all your qualities, I would like to praise your ability to look at the world and genuinely appreciate the good in it. Generally, devotees are swanlike because they want to serve Krsna. This service to Krsna is the essence of life. The swan has the ability to extract the essence, the milk, from a mixture of milk and water. So I can see, Srila Prabhupada, that you are paramahamsa, the supreme swanlike devotee.

You are traveling through this material planet, simply extracting its essence, the eternal relationship of service between the people and Krsna. You have explained that "Krsna is so kind and favorable that if a servitor is accused even of great offenses, Krsna does not take this into consideration. He simply considers the service that is rendered by His devotee." You are obviously acting on Krsna's behalf in this matter, and by your example, you are giving us a taste of real love, the only foundation on which we can build our Krsna consciousness.

Love is manifested in the desire to serve the beloved. That is your teaching, the essence of spiritual life. Jivera 'svarūpa' haya-krsnera 'nitya dasa' [Cc Madhya20.108]. Never mind our crowlike tendencies, if we can just get firmly fixed up in some service to your lotus feet, we will be rightly situated.

Your fallen servants, New Varsana Farm

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