How to receive mercy?

Speaker: Radhanath Swami
Source: Pure devotional service

One time Srila Prabhupada was asked, “what can we do to reciprocate with what you have given us?”. What Srila Prabhupada replied is simple and complete. He said “just receive what I have given you and share it with each other and others”. The first part, to receive what Srila Prabhupada has given us is something deeper than the ocean, higher than the sky in the universe, he has given us the spiritual world, he has given us Goloka Vrindavana, he has given us key to the door which opens our eternal loving relationship with Krsna and Sri Radha in the Spiritual world. But the key is to follow both his instruction in spirit and in form. And according to how we really take that seriously, and even if we make mistakes we really rectify ourselves and move forward. When we have that sense of sincerity, than we actually receive it. It is not that we receive mercy by initiation. We receive mercy by following the dedication that the initiation is establishing..