(4/10) Service Duty (2)

His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad
Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj
Sri Ekachakra Dham, evening class, 26 February 2021
Translated from Bengali, part 4

I am trying to go door to door and get people to hear about Gurudev, Guru Maharaj, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and Nityananda Prabhu. This is the duty that Gurudev, or the Lord, has given me, and I am trying to carry out this duty.

I am coming back to Kolkata tomorrow (Friday). After that, there is a programme in Basirhat on Sunday. On Monday, there is another programme in another place, and then there is a programme in Tarakeshwar on Wednesday, and then Thursday again… There is not even a one-day break in-between. The festival has finished today, and I am leaving tomorrow. I do not waste time. Those who are staying at the temple have their duties. We come and enjoy with Nityananda Prabhu’s property and cannot serve with heart and soul, but it is necessary to serve Nityananda Prabhu with heart and soul. Those who serve in the goshala, who wash the dishes, who cook – everyone must do their service nicely. Everybody has service, everybody has their duty.

You are spending your lives thinking all the time about material things, but one day you will have to give an answer. One day will come when you will be asked, ‘You have been at My place for so many days, what did you do there? What did you do at My house? How did you take care of it?’ It is necessary to live at the temple in such a way that the preaching about the Lord and the property of the Lord do not get destroyed. Everything must be used for service. You offer bhoga to gurudev, and gurudev uses it in service – he offers it to the Lord and arranges for us to take that prasad.

When I first came here, I spent the first night sleeping under a tree. After that, we stayed in a rented house, worshipping a photograph of the Deities during one year. From time to time, I came here, supervised the works and brought materials all the way from Nabadwip. It was a big struggle to build everything, so please try to take good care of everything. This is your service. If you do not do it, I will not lose anything – I can pay a hundred rupees to a worker and get everything cleaned. The problem will be yours – you are staying at the temple, and if you do not increase your sukriti, then when your sukriti is burnt, what are you going to do next? How much service do you do here? You will have to go through this examination; you will be asked about it. If you think, ‘This is my service’, ‘That is his service’, you will never pass the test. All service is Nityananda Prabhu’s service. There is no question of ‘your’ service and ‘his’ service. Nothing is yours. Everything is Nityananda Prabhu’s property.

I cannot come here all the time because I do not stay in one place. I have just told you that I am leaving for Kolkata tomorrow, will spend one night there and then go to different programmes…

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1) Main Festivals
2) Serve with Faith
3) Service Duty (1)
4) Service Duty (2)
5) Heed My Word
6) Perverted Tastes and Habits
7) Snowball of Offences
8) Path to Indigestion
9) Memorable Pastimes
10) Kali Yuga Brahmans