Everyone can become a great devotee, being freed from offenses 100% simply by one's determination and effort. We can remember also that "determination" has the word "terminus" in it; it means to finish something. In the case of chanting japa, there's a complete mantra, there's a complete round, there are complete 16 rounds, and so forth. And if we set ourselves in a mode where we're finishing and being very careful and attentive to finish the mantra, hearing it all the way through, and remembering also that when Yaśodā tried to bind Kṛṣṇa, that there were two inches lacking in the rope each time, and our ācārya Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura has said these represent one, our own effort to reach Kṛṣṇa, and two, Kṛṣṇa is appreciating our effort and then reaching back to us. So we can remember that if we extend ourselves—means give special care to listening to the mantra and finishing what we started—then it's likely that Kṛṣṇa will extend Himself to us as well.

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