Life's Purpose

His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad
Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj
Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur's disappearance
Nrisingha Palli, morning, 3 January 2021, part 5
Translated from Bengali

Today is the disappearance day of Srila Prabhupad Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur. Wherever he may be now, we pray at his holy lotus feet that he may give us his mercy so that we may pass this life serving him heart and soul. This is a very important day for us. May Srila Prabhupad Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur bestow his mercy on us so that we can serve him and get spiritual benefit—so that we may serve him and rescue ourselves thereby from this world.

At the end, Srila Prabhupad left this world after hearing a kirtan that was very dear to his heart from the holy mouth of Srila B.R. Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj. You all know this kirtan: "Sri Rupa Manjari-pada, sei mora sampada." Hearing this separation kirtan (viraha-kirtan), he gave up his body and left this world. At that time, devotees would stay with Srila Prabhupad continuously throughout the day, and Srila Sridhar Maharaj accepted to keep his duty from 2 a.m. to 4 a.m. So, that day, he finished his duty at 4 a.m. and went to take shower and get ready to go for the mangal arati. Some time after 4 a.m., Srila Prabhupad asked, "Where is Sridhar Maharaj? Is he here? I want to hear one kirtan, 'Sri Rupa Manjari-pada'." The devotee who was in charge of the temple (it all happened at Bagh Bazar Gaudiya Math in Kolkata) then told another devotee who was present at that time and who could sing very well to sing this kirtan. The devotee started singing this kirtan in a very melodious way, but Srila Prabhupad shouted, "Please stop it! I do not want to hear the tune!" Everybody was astonished, "The person who has never sung in his life is asked to sing now!" Srila Sridhar Maharaj hardly every sang kirtan, he did not sing very well...

Srila Prabhupad would say: What is the use living 120 years if you do not practise Krishna consciousness? If you live only ten years but you chant the Holy Name, then there is no need to have a 120-year-long lifetime. If you do wrong things, if you do bad things, if you speak bad things, if you gossip about others and criticise others, then what is the use living for 120 years? You can live for ten years—chant the Holy Name, serve the Lord, etc.—and you will get benefit. There is no use living for 120 years. Do you understand? These are Srila Prabhupad's words, and these are very beautiful words.

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