Swami! How are we to believe all this is happening everyday in Kodaikanal? Can
we estimate our good luck that is responsible for the golden opportunity of
sitting at your lotus feet and listening to five discourses a day? How are we to
retain this privilege?

As you rightly deserve, you get this opportunity. But you need to note one
important point. The Bhagavadg i ta says, ks in e pun ye martyalokam vis'anti ,
which means that the merit accrued is exhausted with the passage of time. You
will have to return to the earth even from the highest of heavens.

One example. You know that some of your representatives are elected as
legislators and some as members of the parliament. How long does their term
last? Only five years. Does it not? Their term is for five years after which
they have to go back to their constituencies. But as legislators,
parliamentarians and people's representatives, if they frequently visit their
constituencies, meet the electorate and render service to the voters who elected
them to those positions, they can contest elections again and return to the
assembly or parliament as the case may be for another term. Similarly, while
enjoying the present golden opportunity you can still work for its continuity by
satkarma, doing good deeds, sadalo cana , entertaining good thoughts and
satsang, joining good company.