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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 7, Ch. 10]
TEXT 6
अहं त्वकामस्त्वद्भक्तस्त्वं च स्वाम्यनपाश्रयः । नान्यथेहावयोरर्थो राजसेवकयोरिव ॥ ६ ॥
aham tv akāmas tvad-bhaktas tvam ca svāmy anapāśrayaḥ nānyathehāvayor artho rāja-sevakayor iva
aham —as far as I am concerned;  tu —indeed;  akāmaḥ —without material desire;  tvat-bhaktaḥ —fully attached to You without motivation;  tvam ca —Your Lordship also;  svāmī —the real master;  anapāśrayaḥ —without motivation (You do not become the master with motivation);  na —not;  anyathā —without being in such a relationship as master and servant;  iha —here;  āvayoḥ —our;  arthaḥ —any motivation (the Lord is the pure master, and Prahlāda Mahārāja is the pure devotee with no materialistic motivation);  rāja —of a king;  sevakayoḥ —and the servitor;  iva —like (just as a king exacts taxes for the benefit of the servant or the citizens pay taxes for the benefit of the king).
TRANSLATION
O my Lord, I am Your unmotivated servant, and You are my eternal master. There is no need of our being anything other than master and servant. You are naturally my master, and I am naturally Your servant. We have no other relationship.
PURPORT
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said,  jīvera ‘svarūpa’ haya—kṛṣṇera ‘nitya-dāsa’ : every living being is eternally a servant of the Supreme Lord, Kṛṣṇa. Lord Kṛṣṇa says in  Bhagavad-gītā  (5.29),  bhoktāram yujña-tapasām sarva-loka-maheśvaram : “I am the proprietor of all planets, and I am the supreme enjoyer.” This is the natural position of the Lord, and the natural position of the living being is to surrender unto Him ( sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekam śaraṇam vraja ). If this relationship continues, then real happiness exists eternally between the master and servant. Unfortunately, when this eternal relationship is disturbed,