Sanatan-Siksa:
Awakening Taste for Service

His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad
Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj
23 June 2015

[His Divine Grace recapitulates Sri Chaitanya-charitamrita, Madhya-lila, chapter 22:]

I was reading the 22nd chapter yesterday in the evening, beginning from this sloka by Srila Rupa Goswami,

It means, "I am suffering so much. I have listened to Maya's instruction—I have listened to my son, my wife, my daughter, my friends, to anger, lust. They gave me so many bad instructions, and although I have listened to them all, they never had any sympathy for me... Now I have at last come to You! I have got some intelligence, good brain, and I give up everything and surrender to You. Now You must give me some service—You must appoint me as Your servant."

Krsna-bhakti haya abhidheya-pradhana: what is called abhidheya? Abhidheya (the main things) is devotion to Krishna. Practising karma, meditation, and other things, gives very little result—if you have no Krishna-bhakti (devotion to Krishna), there will be no result.

Kevala jnana 'mukti' dite nare bhakti vine: if you have knowledge and no devotion, you will not get liberation, but if you have no knowledge and have devotion, you will get liberation.

We are eternal servants of the Lord, but we forget it—we forget Krishna, that is our fault. As a result of that fault, Maya attacks us: she puts a noose around our necks (galaya bandha).

If, however, you worship Krishna, if you serve the Guru, you can become free from Maya and get the lotus feet of the Lord.

You may be a householder, a brahmachari, a vanaprastha, a sannyasi, a brahmin, you may belong to a high caste, lower caste, come from a very high family, be a highly educated person, but if you do not worship Krishna, then whatever work you do, you will go to hell. It is told here in Sri Chaitanya-charitamrita.

Krishna is like the sun, and Maya is like darkness: Maya has no right to enter where Krishna is. Where is Krishna? Krishna exists where Krishna-katha is going on, where Krishna's beauty, Pastimes are explained. There is no place for Maya there.

"I want to be Yours!"

Sometimes people come not for Krishna consciousness—sometimes they have some other desires, like liberation, enjoyment, some kind of opulence, and so on. If people want other things but worship devotion, then they too can get service, can practise Krishna consciousness. In other words, you may have joined the mission, or stay in the temple, because you have no money, or you have no food, and so on. You may not know anything about Krishna consciousness and have different material desires, but if you practise Krishna consciousness properly, you can get service.

People may not ask for the Lord's lotus feet—they stay here but think about other things, have some material desires (anya-kami), but Krishna out of His own will gives them His lotus feet. Krishna says, "Ama bhaje, mage visaya-sukha: they worship Me but think about something material—instead of nectar they ask Me for poison ('Please, give me this, I want to die'). They are foolish, but I am intelligent—they are My sons, why should I give them poison? I will not give them poison, instead I will give them the nectar of My lotus feet and they will forget about all material desires."

They may have some material desire, but if they worship Krishna, they get the sweetness, the ecstasy, the beauty of Krishna, and they think then, "What I am tasting now is so good! I want to be a servant! I want to serve Krishna!"

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Rupa and Sanatan
• First Encounter
• Running Away
• On the way to
Mahaprabhu
• Finishing Visaya

Rupa-siksa:
• Meeting Mahaprabhu
• Empowering Srila Rupa Goswami
• Rare, Rarer, the Rarest
• The Ultimate Gardening Guide
• Pure Devotion

Santan-sikha:
Sambandha:
• Supreme Personality of Godhead
• The Three Worlds
• Brahmas' Realm
• Krishna's Beauty
Abhidheya:
• Maya's Family
• The Cry of a Surrendered Soul
• Breaking Free
• Delusion of Liberation
• Leaving Ulterior Motive
• When Krishna Gives Mercy
• Awakening Taste for Service
• Full Faith
• Power Transmission
• Surrender in Good Association
• Six Limbs of Surrender
• Sixty-Four Devotional Practices
• Spontaneous Loving Devotion
Prayojan:
• The Path to the Supreme Goal
• Hero and Heroine
• "You Are Mine!"
• The All-Attractive Lord