anxiety brings perfection

[Guest guest]

Visnujana: How do we render perfect service to Krsna?

 

Prabhupada: By your anxiety. (laughter, "Haribol!") If you are anxious to

serve Krsna, that is the real asset. Krsna is unlimited. What service we can

offer to Him? And He has got unlimited servants also. What service He

requires from you and me? He's perfect in Himself. He doesn't require any

service also. But if you are anxious to serve Him, then He does not refuse.

That is His mercy; that is His magnanimity. So the more you increase your

anxiety to serve Krsna, the more it becomes perfect. He's unlimited. Your

anxiety, you become unlimited. So there is competition. The more you serve

Krsna, the more He accepts you and the more He gives you intelligence. You

see? So the spiritual world is unlimited. There is no end of service, and

there is no end of accepting the service. It is not that. So eagerness.

Tatra laulyam eka mulyam. I am not manufacturing the answer, but I am giving

you evidence from Rupa Gosvami, our acarya. He says,

krsna-bhakti-rasa-bhavita matih kriyatam yadi kuto 'pi labhyate: "My dear

gentlemen, my dear boys and girls, if you can purchase a..., your sense of

loving Krsna -- 'How I can love Krsna more and more' -- this, this much,

this anxiety, if you can purchase this matih," -- means intelligence; it is

very nice intelligence -- " 'How I shall serve Krsna...' "

Krsna-bhakti-rasa-bhavita matih. Matih means intelligence or status of mind,

that "I'll serve Krsna.If you can purchase this status of mind anywhere,

please immediately purchase." Then next question will be, "All right, I

shall purchase. What is the price, do you know?Yes, I know what is the

price.What is that price?Laulyam, simply your eagerness, that's all."

Laulyam ekam mulyam. "Ah, that I can have." No. Na janma kotibhis sukrtibhir

labhyate. This eagerness, how to love Krsna, this is not available even

after many, many births. So if you have a pinch of that anxiety, "How I can

serve Krsna?" you must know you are the most fortunate man. A pinch only,

laulya, this anxiety, "How I can serve Krsna?" it is very nice. Then Krsna

will give you intelligence.

 

tesam satata-yuktanam

bhajatam priti-purvakam

buddhi-yogam dadami tam...

[bg. 10.10]

 

"Anyone who is engaged with love and affection in My service, without any

hypocrisy," then Krsna can understand everything. He is within me, within

you. Then He will give you intelligence: "My dear boy, you do like this."

And by doing that, what he will achieve? Yena mam upayanti te: "He'll come

back to Me." And what profit he will get by going there? Ah, yad gatva na

nivartante tad dhama paramam mama [bg. 15.6]. Mam hi partha vyapasritya ye

'pi syuh papa-yonayah. Duhkhalayam asasvatam [bg. 8.15]. There are so many.

Please read Bhagavad-gita As It Is. You'll get perfect knowledge, the

science of God. That is the only study for human being.

 

So simply your eagerness is the perfection for serving Krsna. Increase that

eagerness. And eagerness means if you love Krsna, that eagerness will

increase with your increase of love: "How I shall serve Krsna?" Because you

are voluntary servant, nobody is forcing. That means unless you love Krsna,

how that eagerness will increase? So there are so many things to love Krsna.

Beginning is this sravanam kirtanam. This sravanam, hearing, and chanting.

Hearing, you are hearing Hare Krsna, you are hearing Bhagavad-gita, you are

hearing Srimad-Bhagavatam about Krsna, and chanting. This is the beginning.

Then, naturally,

 

sravanam kirtanam visnoh

smaranam pada-sevanam

arcanam vandanam dasyam

sakhyam atma-nivedanam

[sB 7.5.23]

 

These nine kinds of different varieties of service to Krsna will enlighten

you, will advance you in Krsna consciousness, and your life will be

successful.

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Lecture -- Seattle, October 4, 1968