Letter No. 7

To, Nrisingha Prasad Mukherji:

     Taking Name and singing Lord’s praises are the root of all, are the cause of Siva’s exhilaration, Narada’s liberation and Sukadeva’s excellence. Name generates love and love leads to the Lord of love, Rasavihari (Krishna). As by taking Dhruva star as the guide one secures a knowledge of all the planets and by watering the root of a tree, its branches leaves etc, stand watered, so also by taking Krishna’s name, one performs fully his religious austerities and attains accomplishments. The fruits of religious austerities spontaneously flow from Name.

     Faith in the efficacy of Lord’s name results from a lengthy course of religious austerities. Krishna’s name is weightier than Krishna himself and is exquisite. Was Narada wanting in the practice of penance? Was there any particular form of occult power or accomplishment, which Siva did not attain? Was there any branch of Sastras that Sukadeva did not master? That after all they made the Lord’s name their sole help? They have regarded Name as their supreme ideal and have accordingly merged their existence in name and spent their days in ecstasy. May Krishna grace us similarly to be mad with joy? It all depends upon His will and there can be no coercion.

     Krishna said, “Naaham thishtaami Vaikunte, yoginaam hridayecha, madbhaktaaha yatra gaayanthi thathra thishtaami Naarada.” (I am not in Vaikunta or in the heart of a Yogi. Where my devotees sing about me, there I am.” To teach this only, Krishna came as Nityananda and Gouranga and wandered from door to door with tears in their eyes.

     The Yogis explained the preservation of sperm esoterically as the reversal of Jamuna’s current. The adepts in love neither care nor are satisfied with mere sentimental expressions. They actually want to see the course and by Krishna’s grace do see it and are gratified. Birth and death are identical. Not knowing this, dreading death, we die seven times daily. Advent and dissolution are just the same. We will meet again and play again. This relationship of ours is not of a day. It has been going on from age to age.

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