That association is good for hearing and chanting or just rendering service. But when we go into that association dragging behind us this very large bag of all of our material baggage, that's where the tiring comes.
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is very kind, in that He manifested. Because they [the Shyamakunda and Radhakunda] were there, nobody knew about them, He could have just left it that way. Because here is the highest position, Govardhana is there, the highest spot, but within Govardhana then Radhakunda and Shyamakunda.
http://seminary.bhaktivedantaacademy.com/content/uploads/sc/year2/noi102/2011-11-25-NOI-35-37.mp3 This course is part of Sastra-Caksus, Year 2 and consists of 25 lectures, available on: http://seminary.bhaktivedantaacademy.com/classes/noi-thematic/ Given in Bhaktivedanta Academy, Sridham Mayapur November-December 2011 The following are lecture notes briefly delineating its contents One must accept proximity with both bad and good people throughout one's life, but giving food
Prabhu: Maharaja, how much effect does electronic association [with devotees] have? HH BVPS Maharaja: Electronic association? Depends on the quality. Let us say, you are going to hand-write a letter. And you scribble it out, then you just as soon as you finish scribbling it, you just fold it up
"There are 7 billion people on the planet, how many are experiencing what we are experiencing? Basically, only us. That's always the thing, we are always thinking, we want to share whatever our happiness is or distress is with others, because only we know what they are, others don't. If