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CC Madhya 14.18 (1975)

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His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada



TEXT 18

rājā kahe,-āmi tomāra dāsera anudāsa
bhṛtyera bhṛtya kara,-ei mora āśa


SYNONYMS

rājā kahe—the King said; āmi—I; tomāra—Your; dāsera anudāsa—most obedient servant of Your servant; bhṛtyera bhṛtya—servant of the servant; kara—make (me); ei—this; mora āśa—my desire.


TRANSLATION

The King replied, "My Lord, I am the most obedient servant of Your servants. It is my ambition that You will accept me as the servant of Your servants."


PURPORT

The greatest achievement for a devotee is to become a servant of the servants. Actually no one should desire to become the direct servant of the Lord. That is not a very good idea. When Prahlāda Mahārāja was offered a benediction by Nṛsiṁhadeva, Prahlāda rejected all kinds of material benediction, but he prayed to become the servant of the servant of the Lord. When Dhruva Mahārāja was offered a benediction by Kuvera, the treasurer of the demigods, Dhruva could have asked for unlimited material opulence, but he simply asked for the benediction of becoming the servant of the servants of the Lord. Kholāvecā Śrīdhara was a very poor man, but when Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu wanted to give him a benediction, he also prayed to the Lord to be allowed to remain a servant of the servants of the Lord. The conclusion is that being the servant of the servants of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the highest benediction one can desire.