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entities?” Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu 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 posi-
tion in a reputed business firm because the service
rendered in such positions earns great profits. Al-
though 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 accord-
ing 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 follow-
ing God. In the Srimad-Bhagavatam there is a list of
incarnations, and Lord Buddha is accepted as
one of them. Srimad-Bhagavatam was compiled by
Vyasadeva five thousand years ago, and Lord
Buddha appeared about 2,600 years ago, so Srimad-
Bhagavatam actually foretold the event of his incar-
nation. Lord Buddha preached that there is no God
and no soul, that this body is a combination of
