19860911 RADHA KRISHNA DEITY INSTALLATION, ATLANTA: Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare.

Right now the deity is being decorated and they are offering 216 preparations, the first offering to Radha and Krishna. Then after that there will be, as soon as the offering is over, there will be arati and Prasad and I hope everyone will accept.

Mukha karoti vaachaalam pangum langhaayate girim Yat kripa tam aham vande sri gurum deena taarinam

Today we are observing the appearance of Srimati Radharani known as Radhashtami. Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead mentioned in the Brahma Samhita, Rig Veda and all the Vedas.

Iswaraha parama Krishna Sat cit Ananda vigraha Anaadir aadir Govindam sarva kaarana kaaranam

And for our understanding sometimes Krishna and Narayana compared with the sun, Surya Narayana. Krishna surya samaan, maaya hoi andhakaar, jahan Krishna tahan maayar nahi adhikaar. That Krishna is like the sun and ignorance is like darkness. Wherever there is Krishna there is no nescience. So in this example of Krishna being like the sun then we can compare the energy of Krishna to be like the sunlight and the heat coming from the sun. They are inseparable yet they are nondifferent and different at the same time. We cannot imagine the sun without sunlight and without heat. At the same time when the sunlight comes into our room we don’t consider that to be the same as if the sun was in our room. So there is this difference between the sun and the sun’s energies. Yet at the same time they are united, they are one. So in the Vedic tradition, Sanatana dharma, we worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead with His energy such as Sita Ram, Lakshmi Narayana, Radha Krishna. In fact, we mention the name of the Shakti or energy first. By addressing the energy first the energy is more compassionate, more merciful. So when we address the Supreme Personality of Godhead we address His energy first to attract His compassion, His mercy. When we chant this Hare Krishna mantra, Hare is the address to the energy of the Lord. Hare Krishna means Oh Energy of Lord Krishna, Oh my dear Lord Krishna. Hare Krishna. Hare Rama. Oh Energy of Lord Rama. Oh my dear Lord Rama. So in this way They are two Tattvas, there is the Purusha or Ishwara Tattva, Vishnu Tattva and then there is Shakti Tattva. There are many other tattvas but in a broad category you have the Supreme Personality of Godhead and then you have His energies. So amongst the energies there are different kinds of energies. These are mentioned in the Vishnu Purana –

Vishnu Shakti para prokta shatagyata tatha para, avidya kalma samgyanya trithiashaktir ishyate. Translation: The original potency of Lord Vishnu is superior or spiritual. The living entity actually belongs to that superior energy. But there is another energy called the material energy and this third energy is full of ignorance. So there are three energies of Krishna, three broad categories. Spiritual, material and marginal. So we are the marginal energy of the Lord. Marginal means we are actually part of the spiritual energy but we are like atomic parts and the direct energy of the Lord, the internal potency is also unlimited like Krishna, only the energy is in a serving mood to Krishna. We are small atomic particles of that energy because we are so small and because the material energy is also almost unlimited it is very great, we can fall underneath the ignorance or influence of that material energy. In this material world we are considered conditioned souls because we fall under the conditioning of the material world. Liberated soul means to be freed from the conditioning of the material energy and return to your original spiritual position. But this material body, material mind are products of the material nature but they can be purified by engaging in the service of Krishna. Then they become just like an electrical current, if you touch electrical wire you become electrified. If someone touches you they will get a shock. Like that by connection with Krishna, with the Supreme Personality of Godhead one gets under the shelter of His spiritual potency and thus all the contaminations of the material world become purified even when one is in this body, one can become liberated. This is the wonderful effect of connection with Krishna through devotion, through bhakti yoga. But if we don’t connect with Krishna then we will be under the control of His external energy. So the devotees they pray to Radha, they pray to Sita, they pray to Lakshmi, to engage them in the service of the Lord. Especially of all the energies, Radharani is considered the supreme energy of the Lord. This is explained in the following verse from Vishnu Purana:

Translation: My dear Lord, You are the transcendental reservoir of all transcendental qualities. Your pleasure potency, existence potency and knowledge potency are all actually one spiritual internal potency.

The conditioned soul although actually spiritual experiences sometimes pleasure, sometimes pain and sometimes a mixture of pain and pleasure. This is due to his being touched by matter. However, because You are above all material qualities these are not found in you. Your superior spiritual potency is completely transcendental and for you there is no such thing as relative pleasure, pleasure mixed with pain or pain itself. So these three internal potencies that can be considered one or considered three – the pleasure potency ahladini potency, the existence potency sandhini and the potency of knowledge samvit. So this pleasure potency is the potency that gives pleasure to Krishna and to all of the devotees. Great seers of the truth, great yogis, rishis, munis, even great souls like Buddha, Bharata maharaj, so many others they all went looking for the spiritual pleasure. As mentioned this material pleasure is sometimes mixed with pain, sometimes there is no pleasure at all there is only pain. So there is always this transient nature, sometimes pleasure, sometimes mixed pleasure with pain, sometimes pain. But in the spiritual happiness there is pure bliss, pure ecstasy, there is no mixture of pain, there is only pure happiness, unmixed, undiluted, pure, satisfying spiritual happiness. So in search of that happiness many souls have entered into the spiritual path, have become even great sanyasis or renunciates. So that spiritual potency they are looking for is actually personified in the form of Srimati Radharani, She is that pleasure potency. When you see Radha and Krishna this is not that Krishna is a man and Radha is a woman and Krishna is experiencing some material happiness by being with His woman. Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead as mentioned here in the Vedas, He is above the material world, He has no material body, His body is totally sat cit anand. He doesn’t experience material pleasure nor material pain nor any mixture of pain and pleasure. Therefore, He is known as Atmarama, He is always in spiritual bliss. But He has taken that spiritual bliss from within Himself and expanded as one of His potencies and that spiritual happiness is known as His Ahladini Shakti. Her other personal name is Radha. Rani means queen, because She was the queen of Vrndavan, we call her as Radharani or Srimati Radhika. So by worshipping Radha and Krishna one can experience the highest spiritual potency. Radha and Krishna is very esoteric, there is nothing to do with the material world to experience the happiness or the pleasure from worshipping Radha and Krishna one requires to awaken their dormant God consciousness or Krishna consciousness. We are all originally spiritual entities, body is a type of machine a carrier, a person may even have a crippled body, may have an old body, may have a young body, the body has nothing to do with themselves. In fact, if someone is injured they can feel although the body may be affected the person is the same. But people are judging by seeing the body. Actually the real spiritual vision is to see the soul, to see the self. So to understand Radha and Krishna one has to elevate the consciousness to the spiritual platform. But this is difficult for the conditioned souls in this materialistic age. So Krishna has personally come as Caitanya Mahaprabhu to give us that special blessing to understand and appreciate deeply the pure love of Radha and Krishna. So Lord Caitanya was discussing with Ramananda Rai about the glories of Srimati Radharani and in this discussion, these are some of the statements that were made.

The essential part of love of Godhead is called Mahabhaava, transcendental ecstasy and that ecstasy is represented by Srimati Radharani.

So Radharani is actually completely permeated with spiritual ecstasy. She has no other purpose but to serve Krishna. But this particular form of Radha and Krishna who we have invited to come and stay with us forever is Radha Madanamohana. The Radha Madanamohana form of the Lord is specially to take the souls of the material world and to bring them to the platform of pure love for Krishna, for Godhead. To engage them in this confidential worship. In this temple which is known as New Panihati because when Prabhupad came here that time he established the worship of Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Nitai, Nityananda Prabhu. At that time, he called this place as New Panihati, Panihati is one of the very important pastime places of Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Nityananda Prabhu in India on the bank of the Ganges. That pastime we have discussed many times before so I won’t go into detail but some of the pastimes are shown on the wall, which occurred in Panihati. So in Panihati, one of the Radha Krishna deities worshipped there are known as Radha Madanamohana. So that was also the name of the deities worshipped by Sanatana Goswami in Vrndavan. So that deity because it was worshipped in Panihati by Raghava Pandit has also been invited to come here to accept worship from all of you. Sri Sri Radha Madanamohana ki jai!

So Radharani’s glories are mentioned in the Brahma Samhita – Ananda chinmaya rasa prathibaavitaabhis Taabir ye eva nija rupa taya kalaabhihi Goloka eva nivasaty akhilaaatma bhuto Govindam adi purusham tamaham bhajaami

I worship Govinda the primeval Lord who resides in His own realm Goloka with Radha who resembles His own spiritual figure and who embodies the ecstatic potency, Ahladini. Their companions are Her confidants who embody extensions of Her bodily form and who are imbued and permeated with ever blissful spiritual rasa.

This rasa is very important. Rasa means the transcendental mellow or relationship of love one can have with the Supreme Godhead. This world is a reflection of the spiritual world. In this world we see that there are husband and wife, there is parents and children, there is friends and friends, there is master and servant, and there is also hero worship or people who hold certain great figures in esteem, in awe and reverence, adoration. These are five basic categories of relationships. So in the Vedas it is described that these originally exist in the spiritual world, Goloka Vrndavan, Vaikuntha, and they are known as rasa or spiritual relationships with the Lord. So the Lord is glorified according to His pastimes which are held in different rasas or mellows. He is glorified in Vaikuntha with great awe and reverence. The panditji has left. There are some Vedic mantras in some of the Vedas where they don’t even say any words, only aaa….., oooo…., just if he was here he could have given a demonstration. That way aa…. Ooo…. Can you give a demonstration! Ha! That this is all adoration, this is awe and reverence, this is appreciating the glories of the Lord even without expressing in words, example of shanta rasa, this could be appreciation of the Absolute Truth.

(Devotee reciting the Vedas)

Hare Krishna! It is complete even without a relationship, how wonderful, how ahhh….. So that is considered the first relationship called shanta rasa or neutral, just complete wonder and overwhelmed how beautiful, how wonderful is the spiritual truth and everything is spiritual. There is the Supreme Person. The next stage is to do service to the Supreme Lord like Hanuman, he was always doing service to Lord Rama and Daruka and many other devotees, they were in the mood of serving the Lord, that is called daasya rasa. The relationship of service, the next relationship is friendship, friendship with some reservation or reverence like Yudhisthira or very intimate friendship like Sudhama, Subala in Vrndavan, Arjuna thoroughly intimate friendship. Then there is parental, Yashodanandana suno Nandasuta. We worship Krishna as the son of Nanda Maharaj and Yashoda. There the relationship is between parent and child. Each relationship is more and more full than the previous. Service is included in friendship but there is something more, there is intimacy. Friendship is included in parents’ relationship but there is more, the parent wants to protect the child, the parent thinks I am better than my child I have to protect, I am older, more wise and so on and so the parent is in a superior position to the child. So it is said that even with the Lord, Krishna has revealed that one can be the parent of God and that is a very loving, ecstatic relationship. Actually no one can be the parent of God, how can you be the parent? He is the original but for His own pleasure He accepts the devotee who wants to serve Him in that way and He plays the part as the son and makes the devotee be a father or a mother. When He comes into this world He accepts such devotees as father and mother or even in the spiritual world such devotees are given that position and He stays in a small child form and allows them to take care of Him as a type of service because He can assume any form, so when He wants He can assume a baby form, when He wants He can assume a big form, He can assume any form just as He assumes the whole universal form, He can also assume a baby form. Then the intimate rasa known as Maadhurya rasa is where Krishna and His devotee associate somewhat similar to how a husband and wife or how a paramour and his lover would associate. Although there is nothing material but there is exchange of embraces, of dancing, of loving in a completely transcendental way without any material exchange but there is a complete spiritual exchange of love in that type of relationship. So whatever is in this world is kind of a shadow reflection of what is in the spiritual world. So Radha and Krishna are Maadhurya rasa, They are representing the complete, transcendental relationship between God and the devotee. So when we worship Radha and Krishna this is showing that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is complete in everything. He doesn’t lack anything. Therefore, we don’t need to dilly dally in the material forever but we should rather go back to the spiritual world where we can participate in the complete pastimes of Krishna as one of His eternal devotees and associates. So in this temple we have the three forms of the Lord’s pastimes. We discussed the rasas, these are very esoteric, I don’t know if everyone can follow but these are important to understand. You can read Bhagavad Gita, then Srimad Bhagavatam, the Teachings of Lord Caitanya, and gradually all of these things are discussed. I am just explaining to you briefly because everyone should know that we are not worshipping someone with an idea that this is a man and this is a woman or something. This is actually the Supreme Personality of Godhead with His Supreme Energy. And They are united in pure love and Their love They are giving to everyone. They are showing this pastime to attract the conditioned souls who are so fascinated by material sex life, by material happiness, to show that what you are enjoying is simply an insignificant activity. Mixed with pain, sometimes only pain. What is going on in the spiritual world is pure happiness, now to understand what is that pure happiness, for that then you will have to go deeper into that. I will not be able to explain the depth of it in a short time. But just to attract you to read on, to study on, to go deeper into the matter and to know that what is being established here is the very highest form of spiritual worship so that all of the devotees and congregations of this spiritual centre can actually achieve the highest spiritual benefit by coming and worshipping these deities and participating in the functions here. Now we have three altars – one altar there is Radha and Krishna, one altar there is Lord Caitanya and Lord Nityananda. In another altar there is Krishna, Balaram and Subhadra in the Jagannath form. The Jagannath form worshipped in Jagannath Puri is a form of Krishna in Dwaraka. It is like Dwarkadeesh. Actually the king of Dwaraka, the king of Bharat at that time who had his capital in Gujarat in western India, he came and found the deity of Krishna in a Neelamadhava form in the Neeladhri mountains but that deity wanted to be worshipped as Jagannath in Sri Kshetra, so that deity worship was established there in Jagannath Puri by the king of entire Bharat at that time, entire world, Indradyumna maharaj. So that worship in Dwaraka, when Krishna was in Dwaraka He was worshipped in great opulence with so many diamonds and jewels, great offerings, just like in Jagannath Puri they offer Jagannath 56 offerings a day, very opulent offerings. So that type of worship is known as opulent or aishwarya. So the Lord in that form is known as Aishwarya vigraha or opulent form of the Lord. As I mentioned Radha and Krishna, Their form is known as Maadhurya or Maadhurya vigraha or very sweet, attractive form of the Lord to attract the mind of the conditioned souls. There is another form when Krishna and Radha combined, Krishna takes on the mood of Radha, He takes on the mood of being a devotee and He comes in the world and He just wants to give everyone without any hesitation, he just wants to give everyone this highest mercy. Whether they are qualified or unqualified, whether they are brahmanas or sudras, whether they are mlecchas or acharya, anyone, if they take up the simple process instantly they get the mercy. That mood, like say a rich man he just wants to give everyone charity, let everyone come and take. That mood is known as Audurya, simply giving out almost impatiently, take it, take it, take as much as you want, just come and take it! That mood of giving is also in the Supreme Personality of Godhead. That mood is in Caitanya Mahaprabhu. So in this age we need that mercy, we need the special mercy, that is why in this age we worship Caitanya Mahaprabhu as a means of getting the mercy of Radha and Krishna. Because none of us is perfect in this age we make so many mistakes, we have so many defects but we may have a desire to achieve perfection with that desire we approach Caitanya, by His mercy we become purified, we become qualified to worship Radha and Krishna, qualified to worship Dwarkadeesh, Jagannath. So because this temple was established as New Panihati Dham and already deity of Krishna, Caitanya Mahaprabhu was established in this centre, therefore we felt that in deference to Bhakti Vedanta Swami Prabhupad we shouldn’t move the deity from that position and that we can take Lord Caitanya in the central position as a special opportunity for us to get His mercy so that we can worship Radha and Krishna in the pure way. Actually Vrndavan was a lost holy place till Lord Caitanya brought His holy devotees from different parts of India there and He reconstructed all of the places. The grand guru of Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Madhevandra Puri was the acharya who found the Gopal deity was established as Nathji in Nathdwara. Many people don’t realize it, Nathji is coming from Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s line, that all the temples in Vrndavan including Govindaji who has moved to Jaipur, Govindaji temple in Vrndavan, Madanamohana, Radharamana, all these temples are coming from Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s disciplic succession. Actually we don’t know anything about Radha and Krishna if it wasn’t revealed by Caitanya Mahaprabhu. It was there in the Vedas but nobody, no acharya was giving us this knowledge. It was lying dormant you can say that. So Caitanya Mahaprabhu revealed His intimate purpose which we will mention today because it is Radharani’s appearance day. Then I think, are we ready for the arati? So there are 4-5 minutes before the arti so I will just mention one thing. It will take 10minutes, 500! Hari bol! Sri Sri Radha Madanamohana ki jai! Radhashtami Mahotsav ki jai! Nitai Gaur ki jai!

You see, Ramananda Rai who was one great devotee of Krishna, when he saw Caitanya Mahaprabhu and he discussed with Him, he said that I have a very strong feeling that You are actually Krishna, nobody knows all these secrets that You know except Krishna Himself. And by his insisting that Krishna Caitanya revealed His form as Radha and Krishna, He divided apart and after that He reunited. And then He said to Ramananda Rai – After embracing Ramananda Rai the Lord pacified informing him but for you no one has ever seen this form. The Lord doesn’t have to reveal Himself to anyone and Lord Caitanya came as a devotee, He did not reveal to everyone and anyone that He was actually Krishna but Ramananda Rai was such a great devotee, he knew, he could understand, the Vedas say You are coming, that Krishna is coming to give bhakti, You are giving bhakti, Krishna is supposed to come in kali yuga in a golden form, You are in a golden form, Krishna is supposed to chant the holy name, You are chanting the holy name, Krishna is giving love for Krishna, You are giving everyone love for Krishna, You must be that avatar, You are Krishna Himself. Please I am a devotee, reveal to me. Lord Krishna could not hide Himself so He showed His form to Ramananda Rai that He was actually Radha and Krishna combined. Otherwise He didn’t show anyone but Ramananda Rai was very clever, he could understand who He was, that this was the form predicted in the Vedas. Then He showed to Ramananda Rai that form is Radha and Krishna.

Then he stated, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu confirmed all the truths about My pastimes and mellows within your knowledge, therefore I have shown this form to you. Actually My body does not have a white complexion, it only appears so because it has touched the body of Srimati Radharani. However, She does not touch anyone but the son of Nanda maharaj. I have now converted My body and mind into the ecstasy of Srimati Radharani. Thus I am tasting My own personal sweetness in that form. Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu then admitted to His pure devotee Ramananda Rai now there is no confidential activity unknown to you. Even though I tried to conceal My activities, you can understand everything in detail by virtue of your advanced love for Me. The Lord then requested Ramananda Rai, keep all these talks a secret. Please do not expose them anywhere and everywhere since My activities appear to be like those of a madman people may take them lightly and laugh. Because Lord Caitanya was showing the ecstasy of Radha therefore people thought that He was mad because Radha becomes so ecstatic in love for Krishna that She becomes almost mad for Krishna. So Lord Caitanya showed that same mahabaav, this is explained by Srila Prabhupad, that My dear Ramananda Rai you are actually seeing a separate person with a white complexion body. Actually I am not white, being Sri Krishna the son of Nanda maharaj I am blackish. When I come in touch with Srimati Radharani I become white complexioned eternally. Srimati Radharani does not touch the body of anyone but Krishna. I taste My own transcendental features by accepting the complexion of Srimati Radharani. Without Radharani one cannot taste the transcendental pleasure of Krishna’s conjugal love. Lord Caitanya is Radha and Krishna combined. So we cannot put Radha by Balaram because Balaram being the older brother of Krishna, the wife of Krishna cannot go before the older brother. That is our Vedic tradition. So we have to keep on a separate altar.

So we hope that all the devotees will get the maximum blessings from Radha Madanamohana, from Lord Caitanya and Nityananda, Jagannath Subhadra and Balaram. Of course we don’t expect everyone to be able to come to the temple every day. We are very grateful you have come and are staying late for this Radhashtami festival, for this once in a lifetime installation of the deities. Of course everyone try to come at least on the Sunday festival days but in addition to chant and to have regular kirtanas in your home, to have a daily meditation of japa in your house, to offer your food to Krishna in your home and thus make your life a Krishna centred life, a God conscious life. This process is universal whether you are an American origin or Indian origin or Asian origin or any origin, originally we all are of spiritual origin. We come from the spiritual world and therefore the spiritual activities are for all. So therefore we invite everyone to practice here in the temple with us as well as we will help you to establish this type of program in your own home. So you can make your own home into a temple. You can make your own heart into a temple, your own mind into a temple. And then wherever you go you will be in spiritual happiness. The simple process which is recommended in this age is to chant the names or the mantras of Krishna, especially the Mahamantra, Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare, Hare Rama Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare Hare. This chanting can be performed by anyone any time any place. Actually tonight we were scheduled to have some initiation ceremonies but because of all the installation and other festivals we thought that better to discuss the importance of these installations and Radhashtami. We are having a festival on Saturday in our Tennessee farm where we are also going to be installing Anantasesha to hold up the entire project there and at that time when that yagya is being held we will be having the initiation ceremony there. For those who can’t attend there may be some fire sacrifice at one of the house programs coming up, Mr. B. Patel or someone else who may be having house programs if there is a yagya there, there may be some pre initiation ceremony held, prag diksha or other, along with whatever other functions are held. You should know you are trying to encourage people to become more serious about their own spiritual life. Actually it is not that we can practice the spiritual life for you. We can give blessings, we can give you the Prasad from the deities, we can help you in various ways. But ultimately it is up to each individual to fly his own course. So for that we are trying to give good companionship, good direction, good intelligence how you can practice your spiritual life, you will be self-sufficient, you will be standing on your own spiritual feet. You will be actually independent, not over dependent on others, you will be simply able to depend personally on getting that direct inspiration from guru and Krishna. This is what we gradually want to train people who are interested. Of course we know that some people they are not immediately ready to take on such a serious commitment but we are trying to make it very simple for everyone to practice so that you can know that eventually you should take on this responsibility for your spiritual life. Why delay? It is better to do earlier than later. Some people say I will do when I get old but in old age at that time we have so many hard set habits, it is very hard to change in the middle of the road. Even in the old age our material desires will not go away. So if we start to purify ourselves as young as possible then it makes it very easy, very gradual and there is no kind of anxiety due to attachment. Actually spiritual life is all happiness but due to attachment we feel that oh, I am going to suffer something. There is no suffering in spiritual happiness, suffering is in the lack of spiritual happiness. Spiritual bliss is without any suffering at all. But due to lack of spiritual understanding we fear, oh I am going to miss out something if I become liberated, this is an acronym. No one misses out from being liberated. We experience life in its full form. So we thank all of you for coming here and for helping in this installation. Actually installing is just the first step. This was mentioned earlier. We have invited Krishna to please come, to please stay here, to accept our worship, but now it is a very great responsibility. Actually just a very short two months ago with the help and the determination of many of our serious life members we came to the sankalpa or determination we are going to have that installation on Radhashtami. So although we wanted to have marble singhaasans there was no time to do that. We have wooden singhaasans which are also alright to begin with. Then in the future we can improve. We wanted to do so many things, fix up the deity room in the back, make a bigger storage area because now we need more area to house the additional paraphernalia and clothing and things for Radha and Krishna. But they are not even able to finish all of the work. So many works are being done simultaneously. We brought here for this function the best, expert purohits and pandits for doing the ceremony, Atma Tattva das from Mayapur Dham, Gaura Keshava who flew in from Australia, and is touring now North America. We had to request him months ago to keep this day open for this ceremony and other devotees have come from all over to make this a very successful function. But now after this there is different devotees who go back, the responsibility is here on the congregation on the devotees to protect these deities we need now some gates, some steel gates so that the deities are very safe. This cloth curtain is not sufficient for such a valuable prize such as the Lord Himself. Like this there are many things which are needed to complete and to make the situation proper which I won’t go into all right now. But all these type of things we have to now see that the Lord is taken care, the devotees come to the temple. We should be very careful to be respectful, to be conscious and we should take the opportunity to serve the Lord. He has come here, why? Because we are requesting Him. Everyone is so eager, we must have Radha and Krishna, why? So we can serve Them. We want the Lords so we serve Him, please come so we can serve You, we can bow down to You, we can offer our prayers to You, we can offer our service to You. He doesn’t need this service; we need this service. We need to offer this service to Him. When we offer service to the Supreme, to the Greatest, we become supremely blessed, we become great, we become glorified. By serving the greatest one becomes great. If one is serving a great king or a great head of state, he naturally also becomes elevated in his position with the grace of being with such a great person. But who is greater than the Supreme Lord Himself? To be His personal servant there is no higher distinction or honor in this entire world. That is the top distinction, to be the personal servant of the Supreme Lord. So now we have invited the Lord, please come here, now it is not His part, He has come here, pandits have done their part, we have all gathered together, we have requested the Lord please come here because all the devotees want to worship Radha and Krishna, now we have called Them. Now it is your turn to worship Radha and Krishna. And it is your great fortune and great opportunity. For me it is a constant anxiety just to see and I hope that everyone very, very, carefully takes care of Radha Madanamohana because They are going to hold me most responsible if They are not taken care of. Because I went to do the final request for them to come. They are going to hold me, They are going to hold the temple President, the vice President and all the devotees. They are going to hold me first, then the President and then the vice President like that so everyone is responsible. We are all sharing this great responsibility. On the one hand I know that if everyone just remembers that this is our responsibility, then this service will be very beautifully performed and the Lord will be very happy to be with us and therefore we will get the benefit of so much transcendental mercy from Them. So I thank all of you for your inspiration and your enthusiasm and I hope that Nitai Gaur, Radha Madanamohana and Jagannath bless you with more and more enthusiasm to continue in expanding the devotional service here in this Radha Krishna, Nitai Gaur, Jagannath temple.

Hare Krisna!

Transcribed by: Jayaraseshwari devi dasi 27 April 2016