Transcendental Nectar of Sadhu-Sanga

Dear Dr. A. K. Tripathi:

Thank you for your question about God. When someone says that God is created by someone then that implies that there is someone superior to God. This indicates that there is a basic problem in our understanding of God. God means, He is by Himself and for Himself.

In the Brahma-samhita Lord Brahma chanting the unlimited glories of Supreme Personality of Godhead Lord Sri Krishna. Lord Brahma is giving us a definition for Supreme Personality of Godhead in Brahma-samhita (5.1):

isvarah paramah krishnah

sac-cid-ananda-vigrahah

anadir adir govindah

sarva-karana-karanam

“The Supreme Personality of Godhead is Krishna, who has a body of eternity, knowledge and bliss. He has no beginning, for He is the beginning of everything. He is the cause of all causes.”

Hence we must know that God has neither beginning nor end. He is the cause of all causes and master of entire existence. Everything is to be considered as the object of His enjoyment. 

His Divine Grace Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaja says: “But when I am determined to exist only for Him, to maintain my existence for Him, when I can think: “I am for Him, and everything is for Him”- then I have got some position. As Hegel told, “Reality is by Itself and for Itself”, so, everything is for Krishna, it is for Himself; and when I am for Him, then I have got some position. And as much as I can dedicate myself to Him, to being for Him, so much of a concrete or substantial position I may acquire. My position depends on my rendering sincere service to the Prime Cause. Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu said:

jivera ‘svarupa’ haya- krsnera ‘nitya-dasa’

krsnera ‘tatastha-sakti’, bhedabheda-prakasa

(Chaitanya Charitamrita Madhya 20:108)

“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, as a molecular particle of sunshine is one with, and different from, the sun.”

The soul is of the marginal potency. From the independent standpoint, it can be seen that he has something in common with the Lord, and something different from Him; and such a position is inconceivable. Krishna is all-in-all, and the soul has a dependent position, as His potency. The Owner is He, and if we are conscious of that fact, we can thrive. We can improve our position, and we may also get the higher position, we may enter into the higher, most confidential service, only if we can satisfy the permanent servitors of that highest conception.

Who is the highest servitor, Who can serve Him best- they should be the subject of our highest reach. Our aim should be to enter into Their group. And that is Radharani’s group. To enter into Her group, Her camp, Her association- that is radha-dasya.

Service is our life, it is everything for us. We thrive only there. And whenever we want to do the work of a master, we deviate from that; we go away, we degrade. By serving, we live, and by trying to make ourselves master, by lording it over others, we die.

So, you will have to ‘die to live’- by dying to your false ego, your self-aggrandizing tendency, you can live, live in the world of service, divine service. Everyone is trying to live in this world avoiding death, physical death. They are trying to ‘live without death’, and that of course is not possible. Just as it is not possible in the ordinary sense to live without death, so you also, who are aspiring for divine life, don’t try to live, without death! Die now! Die, to both your exploiting and renouncing tendencies, to really live in service divine.”

Sincerely,

Sushen Krishna das