Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Siddhaswarupananda - Practical Wisdom

This distinctive inherent activity of the soul,which is called devotion and wafts the spiri- tual mind above all sordid thoughts, was not only propagated by Shri Chaitanya Deva but He Himself was an embodiment of it and proclaimed that He was a gardener possessing and nurturing the immortal and ever-fruitful tree of Divine Love, the innumerable and succulent fruits whereof are hanging like figs on a fig-tree and that His business was to distribute these fruits to the rich and the poor, the high and the low alike without any price and consideration and thus to play the part of a most munificent giver. He renounced the world and took up the task of distributing Divine Love to all jivas who were groping after the Spiritual by describing Him as invisible or were oblivious of their own true selves as well as of the real nature of their most. Pleasing and Loving Attractor. This forgetfulness on the part of jivas is the root of all evils and sufferings; so He entreated one and all to taste of this divine fruit and contribute their share in distributing the fruit of Divine Love and enjoined that the best use of their lives lay in doing the highest and eternal good to themselves and to others and in practising at all times spiritual weal to others with their life, wealth, intelligence and speech. He said, "In so doing the waves of the world cannot stand in your way as your steps are ordered by the Divine Lover and He delights in your way. There may be a seeming fall but fear not nor be utterly cast down as He holds you up with His hand. If you are dumb, you will be a persuasive talker, if your legs are crippled, you will cross the Alps with ease and your words will need no bell to call people together and no constable to keep them - these will draw the children from their play, the old from their armchairs, the invalid from their warm chamber. Those who feel that their hardened necks are within the guillotine of birth and death will flow in torrents like patients to efficient doctors and will be effectually cured having received your efficacious remedy which is ever effective in its working. Your eye is on the eternal, consequently your intellect will grow and your opinions and actions will have such a beauty and strength which no learning or combined advantages of other men can rival. Know that Divine Assessors come up with us into life, now under one disguise, now under another like a police-man in a citizen's clothes, walk with us step for step through this world of senses to carry us to our ever-blissful abode.