Lecture – SB 2.4.3-4 LA
Caitanya Mahāprabhu gives us immediate information what is a living entity.
He immediately gives the definition that a living entity means who is rendering service to the Lord. So we are rendering service. Somebody’s rendering service to the countries, society, family, and at least to dog, to cat. That is our general inclination, because we want to give service to the Supreme. But because we have forgotten the Supreme, our service attitude is now distributed in so many ways.
But I am serving. That’s a fact. Either you serve dog or either you serve God, the service is there. That you cannot avoid. You cannot say, nobody can say that “I am not serving anyone.” Even becoming God, so-called God… As there are so many rascals, say, they say that “We are God” or “I am God,” “Everyone God.”
God is never servant. God is enjoyer. God is master. God does not serve anyone. Just like you see, we have God here, Kṛṣṇa. He’s not serving; He’s enjoying. That is God. You’ll always find God enjoying. God is not servant. Master.
Kṛṣṇa says bhoktā. Bhoktā means enjoyer. Everyone should be engaged for His service, and He’s the only enjoyer. Ekale īśvara kṛṣṇa [Cc Ādi 5.142].
The only enjoyer, only master, is Kṛṣṇa, and all others, they are servants. Now, there may be gradation of servants, just like in your country President Nixon is also a servant. And ordinary constable, he is also a servant. Everyone is servant; nobody is master.
So there is gradation of service. That’s all. Somebody is serving as President, somebody is serving as constable, somebody is serving as dog, somebody is serving as cat. And similarly, somebody is loving reciprocally. In this way, the whole situation is there. But the central point is, master is Kṛṣṇa, or God, and our love should be reposed unto Him. This is the point. This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Śraddadhāno mahā-manāḥ.
So one who has fixed up his goal of life in this way, that “I am rendering service. That’s a fact. But I am not satisfied. Why? I am rendering so much service….” Just like in our country, Mahatma Gandhi rendered so much service to his country that at the end he was killed by his countrymen. Just see. This is the return. Your country also.
President Kennedy, he was a nice president, but he was killed. So here in this material world, or māyā, if you render service to māyā, illusion, you’ll never be satisfied, neither the person to whom you are giving service, he’ll be satisfied. There is no satisfaction, either to the so-called master or to the servant. Because Kṛṣṇa is missing. That’s all. One should understand this.
This is the actually fact. Here the service is going on, but the master and the servant, both are not satisfied. But there is another platform, spiritual world, where service rendered, both the master and the servant become satisfied immediately. Tasmin tuṣṭe jagat tuṣṭaḥ.
The same example: Just like if [you] put your eatables into the stomach, so the stomach is satisfied and all the servants—the hands, legs, and others who acquire their foodstuff and put into the mouth—they are also satisfied, automatically. The hands, legs, fingers, eyes—every part of my body—immediately satisfied. Yathā prāṇopahārāc ca yathendriyāṇām [SB 4.31.14].
