Serving for Supreme's satisfaction

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Revealed scriptures tell us that soul, being pure as it is, by contact with three modes of material nature starts to exhibit varied symptoms of the disease of material consciousness - fear, anxiety, doubt, anger, desire for sense gratification etc. To cure this material disease is the supreme object of human life. The process that treats this disease is called bhAgavata-dharma, or sanAtana-dharma -- real religion. This is described in the pages of SrImad-BhAgavatam. Therefore if anyone, because of his pious activities in previous lives (which is why right action is important but not the ultimate aim), is anxious to hear this confidential knowledge, immediately realizes the presence of the Supreme Lord within his heart and fulfills the mission of his life.Any process of religiosity based on sense gratification - gross or subtle - must be considered a pretentious religion because it is unable to give perpetual protection to its followers. Religiosity in the shape of fruitive work is directly a method of gross sense gratification, whereas the process of culturing spiritual knowledge with a view to becoming one with or equal to the Absolute is a method of subtle sense gratification. BhAgavata-dharma, or the religious principle described in SrImad-BhAgavatam, of which the Bhagavad-gIta is a preliminary study, is meant for liberated persons of the highest order, who attribute very little value to the sense gratification. The first and foremost concern of fruitive workers, elevationists, empiric philosophers and salvationists is to raise their material position. But

devotees of Godhead have no such selfish desires. They serve the Supreme Lord only for His satisfaction. Hare KrishnaSri A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swamy Prabhupada

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