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Association of devotees is to strive to hear from and to give pleasure to those who have the great treasure of love of God. Narottam Das Thakur in his prayers to the departed Vaisnavas, he prays in this way - he is beating his head against the rock in separation, longing for the association of those devotees who have, who had that great treasure of Prema Bhakti within their hearts, within their lives and who are distributing the contents of that treasure to the world. He is longing for such association. Great souls are different than the impersonalists, in the sense, impersonalist often times - their heart ultimately becomes hard. Somebody dies, ‘aham brahmasmi- they have merged. Very good. aah’! But a devotee because he is always in consciousness of Krsna's personality, he is also always conscious of Krsna's associates, and therefore the mercy flow. So here is Narottam Das Thakur. Who is Narottam, he is the supreme best among all men. Lord Chaitanya gave him that name, knowing that he would be - the best among the human beings. Narottam Thakur when he was just a little boy, he had a darshan of Nitayananda prabhu, he had darshan of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, he was given the love and complexion of Lord Chaitanya. Lord Chaitanya personally appeared to him, told him leave home and come to Vrindavan. Such a great soul! And yet he is weeping and beating his head against rocks figuratively in separation from the devotees. Where is Sanatana Goswami, where is Rupa Goswami where is Raghunath Das can be found, where is Krsna Das Kaviraj Goswami, where is Lokanath Goswami, where is Srinivas Acarya? It is said that he wrote this song upon on the disappearance of Srinivasa Acarya who was his dear friend, a Vaisnava. After Srivnivasa Acharya and Ramacandra Kaviraj left this world, Narottam Das Thakur, he couldn't bear being in this material universe without such great souls. It’s unbearable. That is how much the great personalities value the association of Vaisnavas.