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           29 December 1996

           Thank you so much for your very nice vyasa-puja offering,
           so  tastefully  presented  on  a  card  with  a  photo  of  Srila
           Prabhupada’s divine lotus feet.

           It seems that you are destined (as maybe all the X devotees
           are) to a life of struggle in Krsna’s service. You are fortunate.
           Struggle for Krsna makes us strong. I am sure that before too
           long Krsna will reward the long struggles of the H devotees
           and  the  movement would  strongly  blossom  and  flourish
           there again.

           And you are very lucky to get the chance to serve the deities so
           closely, although another consideration is that there should
           be more devotees to serve them. Your observation that Srila
           Prabhupada personally is his murti is an absolutely correct
           realization. And yes, Srila Prabhupada is more merciful than
           Krsna because he is giving us Krsna.

           The Paramatma is an expansion of Krsna for overseeing the
           material world and the jivas therein. When a jiva goes back
           to Godhead he meets Krsna face to face. The Paramatma
           expansion is not in the spiritual world. Krsna in His original
           form delivers the devotees back to Godhead (c.f. Gita 12.6–7
           and purports). Although Paramatma should not be thought
           of as different to Krsna in the material sense that we perceive
           of difference.

           Regarding  eternality,  Srila  Prabhupada  said  that  a
           sadhana-siddha (one who becomes liberated by sadhana) or a
           krpa-siddha (liberated by mercy), upon achieving perfection,
           is as good as the nitya-siddha (ever perfect soul). In the case
           of a devotee going back to Godhead, his relationship with
           Krsna and all other relationships become reestablished on the
           platform of eternality. That the relationship was temporarily
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