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entities?” Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu immediately answered that the real identity is that of servant of God. We should not understand the word “servant” in the sense of materialistic servant. To become a servant of God is a great position. People are always trying to get some government post or some position in a reputed business firm because the service rendered in such positions earns great profits. Although we are very anxious to get good positions in the government service, we do not stop to think of getting a position in God’s service. God is the government of all governments.
God’s service is  dharma . This  dharma  may be described differently in different countries according to different cultural and climatic conditions or situations, but in every religious scripture obedience to God is instructed. No scripture says that there is no God or that we as living entities are independent—not the Bible, the Koran, the  Vedas  or even the Buddhist literatures. Generally, according to Buddhist philosophy, there is no individual soul and no supreme soul, but actually since Lord Buddha is accepted by Vedic literatures as an incarnation of God, by obeying Lord Buddha one is actually following God. In the  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  there is a list of incarnations, and Lord Buddha is accepted as one of them.  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  was compiled by Vyāsadeva five thousand years ago, and Lord Buddha appeared about 2,600 years ago, so  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  actually foretold the event of his incarnation. Lord Buddha preached that there is no God and no soul, that this body is a combination of