Notice to Contract Owner
                     Important ! Please respond immediately.

February 1999

Dear Triple Advantage Contract Owner:

The Board of Directors of the Dreyfus Socially Responsible Growth Fund, Inc. has
called a Special Joint Meeting of the  Stockholders  of the Portfolio to be held
April 14,  1999,  for the purposes  explained in the enclosed  Notice of Special
Joint Meetings of Stockholder and combined Proxy Statement.

The Dreyfus  Socially  Responsible  Growth Fund,  Inc. is one of the  Portfolios
available under the Dreyfus/Transamerica Triple Advantage Variable Annuity. As a
shareholder in the Portfolio, Transamerica will vote its shares at this meeting.
As a Contract  Owner you have the right to  instruct  Transamerica  how to vote.
Transamerica  will vote all its shares in accordance  with the  instructions  it
receives. This mailing is to solicit these instructions from you.

Enclosed are:

1.       An Instruction Form that you should use to instruct Transamerica how to
         vote the Portfolio shares it holds.

2.       The proxy solicitation  materials from the Portfolio including a Notice
         of Special Joint Meetings of Stockholders and Combined Proxy Statement.
         Review  these to learn more about the meeting and the  proposals  which
         will be voted on.

3. A postage paid envelope to return your Instruction Form.

Please mark your  instructions on the Instruction Form, sign, date and return it
in  the  enclosed  envelope.  If  you  have  any  questions,   please  call  our
Transamerica  Service  Center  at  (800)  258-4260  or in New York  only,  (800)
241-4261.





                                INSTRUCTION FORM
                       TO TRANSAMERICA IN CONNECTION WITH
                             THE PROXY SOLICITED BY
               THE DREYFUS SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE GROWTH FUND, INC.

The undersigned Contract Owner instructs Transamerica  Occidental Life Insurance
Company, or Transamerica Life Insurance Company of New York, ("Transamerica") to
vote,  in  the  manner  indicated  below  all  shares  of the  Dreyfus  Socially
Responsible  Growth Fund,  Inc.,  attributable,  as of February 3, 1999,  to the
allocation  of  the  Contract   Owner's  Account  Value  to  the   corresponding
Sub-Account  of  Separate  Account  VA-2L  (or  VA-2LNY  for  Transamerica  Life
Insurance  Company of New York) at a Meeting of  Stockholders on April 14, 1999,
and all adjournments  thereof,  and to vote in its sole discretion on such other
matters as may properly come before the meeting.

This  instruction  is being  solicited by  Transamerica  as  shareholder  of the
Dreyfus Socially Responsible Growth Fund, Inc. Receipt of the Notice to Contract
Owners,  the Notice of Special Joint Meetings of  Stockholders  and the Combined
Proxy Statement is hereby acknowledged.

SIGN,  DATE AND  RETURN  THIS  INSTRUCTION  FORM  PROMPTLY  USING  THE  ENCLOSED
ENVELOPE.

Date:  ___________________

If signing is by attorney, executor, administrator,  trustee or guardian, please
give title.

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Contract Owner(s) sign here

TRANSAMERICA/SOCRESP





Please indicate your instructions by filling in the appropriate box below. If no
box is checked, Transamerica will take your instructions for the proposals.

1.       To approve a new sub-investment  advisory agreement between The Dreyfus
         Corporation ("Dreyfus") and NCM Capital Management Group, Inc. ("NCM"),
         relating to The Dreyfus  Socially  Responsible  Growth Fund,  Inc. (the
         "Fund"),  the terms of which are  identical to the terms of the current
         sub-investment  advisory agreement between Dreyfus and NCM, relating to
         the Fund, in all material respects.

         In their  discretion,  the proxies are, and each of them is, authorized
         to vote upon any other  business  that may  properly  come  before  the
         Meeting or any  adjournment(s)  thereof,  including any  adjournment(s)
         necessary to obtain the requisite quorum or "FOR" approval.

         FOR               AGAINST          ABSTAIN
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                               PLEASE ACT PROMPTLY
                 SIGN, DATE AND MAIL YOUR INSTRUCTION FORM TODAY