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Thinking of Christmas, I don't have words to express my joy to personally have met a pure devotee in this life. Well, not only one, I believe, but Srila Prabhupada has always been my Jesus Christ, my saviour, and it is only because of him that I learned to respect and understand Jesus.

Really, it is by mercy that the spiritual help exists in this world. So we must respect where there is spiritual help that really elevate the mood and the spiritual moral. But without Srila Prabhupada I would not have believed in the religion after so many abuses from the organized religion. One has to see personally a true devotee to be able to participate in a service with other vaisnavas.

Dear devotees, from here in Berlin I send my greetings for the end of the year. As always, it has been a year full of nectar and with great pains. Life is like this, it seems. So that we may not forget that we are not in a paradise here. In the same way it is a sweet taste to have the Vaisnavas close, in a sincere spirit, heart to heart. Truly, I only take my refuge to the most precious, which is the Vaisnavas.

Prabhu Antaranga is with Krishna and we continue struggling here. I give all my affection to his dear wife Madurya and his son and parents and his brother Guru das. And we will see how we how to struggle on forward, to be able to follow in the footsteps of such a dedicated soul as Antaranga was, and also to help other souls to know devotees like him. If we hadn't suffered the strokes of a devotional mission in Kali yuga, we would never have met Srila Harijan Maharaj, Srila Madhava Prakash Maharaj and so many other beautiful souls.

So we cannot stop thanking for each moment in the Vaisnava family. If we were not fighting for Lord Caitanya, we would be in a fight for enjoyment in the world of maya, which is only a waste of time and of everything.