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Pleasing the Perfect Master

During a lecture given in September 1968 in Seattle, Washington, Śrīla Prabhupāda says, “Can anybody in this meeting say that …

In this material world, everyone is trying to search out happiness and get relief from misery. There are three kinds …

Then there are ādhibhautika miseries, sufferings caused by other living entities. For example, human beings are sending millions of poor …

Finally, there are ādhidaivika miseries, those caused by higher authorities such as the demigods. There may be famine, earthquake, flood, …

So we are always suffering one or more of these miseries. This material nature is constituted in such a way …

There are various kinds of remedies that we use to try to relieve our suffering. One remedy is offered by …

All our sufferings are due to ignorance. We have forgotten that we are eternal servants of Kṛṣṇa. There is a …

kṛṣṇa-bahirmukha hañā bhoga-vāñchā kare nikaṭa-stha māyā tāre jāpaṭiyā dhare

As soon as our original Kṛṣṇa consciousness becomes polluted with the consciousness of material enjoyment – the idea that I …

In the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement our mentality is just the opposite. We are trying to become the servant of the …

Now, people may say this is a slave mentality: “Why should I become a slave? I shall become the master.” …

We cannot avoid serving. Every one of us sitting in this meeting is a servant. These boys and girls who …

In a higher stage, one becomes the servant of humanity, the servant of society, the servant of his country. But …

So, we should understand this important point of philosophy: Constitutionally we are servants. Nobody can say, “I am free; I …

We may serve Kṛṣṇa, or we may serve our senses. But the difficulty is that by serving our senses we …

So we are being forced to serve, but we don’t wish to serve. What is the adjustment? Kṛṣṇa consciousness. If …

So, if we want to get free of the service of this material world, the service of our senses, then …

Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī quotes a nice verse in his Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu concerning the service of the senses: kāmādīnāṁ kati na katidhā …

Then someone may say to the devotee: “All right, you have served your senses. But now you are done serving …