Letter No. 7

To, Rajani Kanta Ghosh:

     Life in the world is like rest in a traveller’s inn. If for flimsy reasons, it is spent in controversies, the traveller will find lack of energy to resume the journey next day. The proper rest is concentration on one’s thoughts on Lord Hari. We have come to the world to do allotted works. Then why waste valuable time in useless thoughts and not spend it in chanting the Lord’s name and sing His praise?

     Seek solitude or remain with men steeped in love of the Lord, spending time in discourses about Him, or be merged in thoughts about Him.    As one goes on taking Name, all sense of ownership of property vanishes; and not even a shred of cloth remains to cover one’s nakedness. Yet at the feet of such a naked lunatic, the crowns of kings and emperors wallow in the dust.

     Divine Name is very intoxicating. Ordinary liquor unbalances only the man who takes it but one true lover of Krishna can make the whole world drunk. Nothing can be more intoxicating than the Divine Name.

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