How to Always Be Blissful in a Hellish World
It is not difficult to always be blissful, even in this most hellish modern civilization. One simply has to always remember Krishna, that's all. It is Krishna who is holding everything together. Without His potency nothing at all would exist. He is the foundation upon which everything rests. Without His support the entire universe would collapse within a second. So it does not make sense at all to not be connected with such a all-powerful, influential person. Any sane man will naturally fix himself in Krishna consciousness. Thus resituated in his natural position he will experience unlimited happiness at every minute.
Kindly clear my confusion.
P. Agrawal
jīvera ‘svarūpa’ haya—kṛṣṇera ‘nitya-dāsa’
kṛṣṇera ‘taṭasthā-śakti’ ‘bhedābheda-prakāśa’
“It is the living entity’s constitutional position to be an eternal servant of Krishna because he is the marginal energy of Krishna and a manifestation simultaneously one with and different from the Lord.”
-- Caitanya Caritamrita Madhya 20.108
It is our unwillingness to serve God that got us here in the first place, suffering in this material world in the cycle of repeated birth and death. It is also true that we are God's children. Formally in society it was accepted that it was the duty of the children to serve the parents. Now with the modernization of society and the breakdown of moral values they have changed this principle. So if we choose to be immoral children of God who don't serve Him as is the modern tendency, that is our choice. But such rebellious children of God who refuse to serve will not be allowed back into the spiritual world until they rectify their rebellious attitude.
One who works for remuneration is an employee. He is not a servant. The real meaning of servant is one who serves the master out of love without any thought of remuneration. This is the real meaning of servant.
If the son loves and serves His father with the thought of getting something in return, that is not service. That is business. But if he serves the father simply to please the father, this is the proper son. This is how we children of God must now approach our father, as His humble servants.
God doesn't need our service. He has servants in the spiritual world who can serve Him millions and billions times better than we crude earth beings. It is we who need to serve Him in order to revive our original divine consciousness.
God is serving us in unlimited ways. Any decent gentleman will certainly be more than willing to reciprocate the loving service that God is giving us by serving Him in return. A child who does not serve his parents is an ingrate, an ungrateful rascal. We should not put ourselves into this category in our relationship with God.
Love means service. If one is not willing to serve their beloved, this means that their love is not genuine. It is on the lips only.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
Answers by Citing the Vedic Version
Question: Are We God's Children or His Servants?
I read somewhere that this whole universe came into existence because of God's feeling alone and desiring that there should be others around besides Him. Since we are created by the God, we are His children. Then why do you say we are His servants? Why the Almighty God would need servants? It is said God desires unconditional love from us. Servants always work for some remuneration. How a servant can be expected to love his master, that too unconditionally, whereas a son can surely love his father unconditionally?Kindly clear my confusion.
P. Agrawal
Answer: Both
It's not that I say we are God's servants. God Himself states that we are His servants:jīvera ‘svarūpa’ haya—kṛṣṇera ‘nitya-dāsa’
kṛṣṇera ‘taṭasthā-śakti’ ‘bhedābheda-prakāśa’
“It is the living entity’s constitutional position to be an eternal servant of Krishna because he is the marginal energy of Krishna and a manifestation simultaneously one with and different from the Lord.”
-- Caitanya Caritamrita Madhya 20.108
It is our unwillingness to serve God that got us here in the first place, suffering in this material world in the cycle of repeated birth and death. It is also true that we are God's children. Formally in society it was accepted that it was the duty of the children to serve the parents. Now with the modernization of society and the breakdown of moral values they have changed this principle. So if we choose to be immoral children of God who don't serve Him as is the modern tendency, that is our choice. But such rebellious children of God who refuse to serve will not be allowed back into the spiritual world until they rectify their rebellious attitude.
One who works for remuneration is an employee. He is not a servant. The real meaning of servant is one who serves the master out of love without any thought of remuneration. This is the real meaning of servant.
If the son loves and serves His father with the thought of getting something in return, that is not service. That is business. But if he serves the father simply to please the father, this is the proper son. This is how we children of God must now approach our father, as His humble servants.
God doesn't need our service. He has servants in the spiritual world who can serve Him millions and billions times better than we crude earth beings. It is we who need to serve Him in order to revive our original divine consciousness.
God is serving us in unlimited ways. Any decent gentleman will certainly be more than willing to reciprocate the loving service that God is giving us by serving Him in return. A child who does not serve his parents is an ingrate, an ungrateful rascal. We should not put ourselves into this category in our relationship with God.
Love means service. If one is not willing to serve their beloved, this means that their love is not genuine. It is on the lips only.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
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