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4 PATROPADEŚA

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