Extract from the chat with Guru Maharaj
on 23rd of January, 2005.

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All glories to Srila Prabhupada, our saviour,
our inspiration and our connection with the spiritual world.

Even if we do it every Sunday, it is something incredible that I can talk with you like this, simultaneously through the chat; to be in contact with many dear devoted preachers of the holy name and friends to ideal vaishnavas around the world.

Last Sunday I could not join the chat, because I was in Varsana, and there was too many activities going on. As you know, all of you, they are building a temple for the universal love, Sri Sri Guru Gauranga Radha-Vrajesvara, in Varsana. This implicates many decisions, and as always we do not have much time. Inclusive, in Varsana there are many other details to be determined in the congregation before the magnificent temple work starts. For instance, the park “Krishna – the conqueror of all” is more and more developed and improved. But also the ideas are developing.

Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur explained to us in his Krishna Samhita how the different demons that Krishna eliminated or scared in His divine lila, represent the obstacles for the sweetness of Vraja; the sensibility of the soul to get in contact with the Supreme Personality of Godhead in His Madhurya lila. In other words, the obstacles that threaten each one of us in our daily living, that is Krishna’s lila to eliminate the demons, is not a fairytale to amuse the children. It is the wonderful and substantial push from the Supreme Lord to help us getting out of the material world. It is a definitive alert, because when seeing these terrible demons and getting aware of having them within one self, one can get really scared. At it is better take measure to not lose the shade of the lotus feet of the instructions of Srila Prabhupada on one’s head.

So this is very significant. Furthermore, this park is a great attempt to make the teachings of the Lord available for people in general, through a project that seems like divertissement. To slide chute down the neck of the demon Kesi! Or enter the cave of the mouth of Aghasura! This in order to discover that the need of spiritual life is primordial.

Also concerning the infrastructure in Varsana, some things have to be polished to help this spiritual community to become more self supporting. But I tell you that this community really is like a dream and that many blessings expend all over Colombia and over the whole world. The ultimate and maximum blessing shown in Varsana is the project coming directly from Goloka Vrindavan, and I have the pleasure today to present this project for you, and at the same time apply this very secret of the distribution of mercy in your different place; Brazil, Argentina, Chile, or wherever… The mercy that descends to us is called nothing less than maha prasadam.