104 Sri Isopanisad

is really common sense to our intelligence, but we are so bewil-
dered by the glitter of the matcrial nature that we are distracted
from his message. He is simply canvassing for God on the order
of his spiritual master. Once Srila Prabhupada was asked, “Are
you an incarnation of God?” “No,” he answered, “I am servant
of God.” Then he paused and went on, “Not exactly servant.
To be servant of God is not an ordinary thing.” The servants or
devotees of Krsna are so great that they are beyond the desire to
merge with God. Sometimes, in their intimate association and
exchange with God, they even become “greater” than Him, as
when He allows some devotee to become His mother or lover.
Prabhupada’s mission is not less than to distribute this topmost
love of God to all persons. It is stated in the Vedic literature that
a small man wants to make only himself happy, a somewhat
bigger man wants to make his family or his country happy,
but the great man wants to make all persons happy.

His Divine Grace produces his books by speaking them on
a dictaphone. He is presently working on five books at once.
These books are a matter of realization. As he has said, “When
you become self-realized you automatically write volumes of
books.” And one of the qualifications of a devotee is that he is
poetic. Srila Prabhupada is always immersed in Krsna by
speaking, dictating, singing about Krgna’s Glories, preaching
formally at meetings or planning the expansion of the Krsna
Consciousness movement. In the Bhagavad-gita, Seventh Chapter,
it is stated that out of thousands of men few seck perfection, and
out of the thousands who attain perfection hardly one knows
Krsna. Lord Krsna also declares in the Kightcenth Chapter that
the dearmost devotee of all is he who spreads the teaching of
love of Krsna: “‘Never will there be one dearer to Me.”

His Divine Grace’s spiritual master, Bhakti Siddhanta Sarasvatt,
once drew a picture of a mrdanga (a drum used on Sankirtan)
and, beside it, a printing press. Ile said that the mrdanga
can be heard for several blocks, but thal the press can be
heard around the world. He therefore called the printing press
