Association Of Devotees

Some pure devotees come from the spiritual world for preaching and turn many conditioned souls into pure devotees.  Such preachers want to deliver the suffering conditioned souls.  Then how can millions of such pure devotees while in Vaikuntha tolerate one of their own falling down?  Prabhupäda said that it is more important to keep the old devotees than to make new ones.  Will this reasoning not apply in Vaikuëöha?  

            In the association of devotees there is constant Bhagavat kathä which Kapiladeva says is rasäyana, a tonic against maya (Bhäg.3.25.25):

satäà prasaìgän mama vérya-saàvido

bhavanti håt-karëa-rasäyanäù kathäù

taj-joñaëäd äçv apavarga-vartmani

çraddhä ratir bhaktir anukramiñyati

In the association of pure devotees, discussion of the pastimes and activities of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is very pleasing and satisfying to the ear and heart.  By cultivating such knowledge one gradually becomes advanced on the path of liberation, and thereafter he is freed, and his attraction becomes fixed.  Then real devotion and devotional service begin.

Vaikuëöha is full of pure devotees.  One can just imagine the amount of rasayana kathä available there.  Where is the possibility of these fixed up souls becoming weak or infected with mäyä?  The association of devotees in the spiritual sky is assurance enough that no one can fall from there to the material world.  

            The glance of a pure devotee can purify even a pukkaça, a low-caste person.  This is confirmed in the Brahmäëòa Puräëa (cited in HBV 10.171):

darçana-sparçanäläpa-saha-väsädibhiù kñaëät

bhaktäù punanti kåñëasya säkñädapi pukkaçam

A moments association through glance, touch, talk or living together with the Kåñëa devotees purifies even a pukkaça, a low caste person.

One must conclude that the association of devotees is a potent purifying agent.  In Vaikuëöha, which is already a purified place, one cannot avoid the above types of good association.  There is no other association but good association in Vaikuëöha.  Indeed such association is constantly available.  So even if some contamination was to somehow enter, which is altogether inconceivable, the powerful association of the devotees will immediately purify the thought or whatever it is.  

            Just as it is inconceivable that any kind of flammable object can contact the sun without bursting into flames long before it gets close, similarly, it is inconceivable that any contamination can enter the potent association of nitya-siddha devotees or even the spiritual sky itself without becoming purified.