Srila Bhakisiddhantha Goswamis instructions

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Just a week before Srila Bhaktisiddhantha Saraswati Goswami Thakur left

this world, on the morning of Dec 23, 1936, he gave some special

instructions to his disciples. These are of interest to any one who

desires spiritual perfection. These are

 

1.All of you please preach the message of Rupa and Raghunath with

great enthusiasm. The ultimate object of our desires is to become specks

of dust at the lotus feet of the followers of Rupa Goswami

 

2.All of you remain united in submission to the Lords' form as the

repository of devotion, seeking to satisfy the transcendental senses of

the one, non-dual supreme consciousness. Make your way through this

impermanent, transitory life in whatever way you can, keeping the goal of

worshipping the Lord foremost in your minds. Don't abandon this goal,

even in the face of hundreds of dangers, insults or persecutions.

 

3.Don't loose your spirit if you see that the majority of people

cannot accept the principle of selfless service to the supreme lord.

 

4.Our true being and identity is to be the dust at the lotus feet

of Sri Rupa Goswami, life after life.

 

5.In the material world, we continuously come into contact with

difficulties. There is no need for us to be bewildered by these

difficulties, nor should it be our objective to remove them. Rather we

should think of what will be left to be attained after all these

obstacles are removed, We must learn about our eternal life while we are

still in this world. Our only real obligation is to go beyond duality and

to enter that realm of eternal fulfillment.

 

6.In this world, no person should be a special object of attraction

or aversion. All arrangements we make here last only for moments. Our

only unavoidable necessity is to seek out the ultimate goal of life.

 

7.Work together with a single purpose-to win the qualifications to

serve the original repository of love for Krishna, Srimati Radharani.

 

8.May the current of ideas propagated by Rupa Goswami flow

throughout the world.

 

9.May we never under any circumstances become indifferent to the

seven tongued sacrificial flame of the holy name. If out attraction to

the holy name continually increases, we will achieve all perfection.

 

10.Remain exclusively faithful to the followers of Rupa Goswami and

preach Rupa and Raghunath's teachings enthusiastically and fearlessly.