282 THE SCIENCE OF SELF-REALIZATION

unalloyed devotion is that one cannot maintain any desire other than to
become fully Krsna conscious. Even if one knows that all other forms of
God are also Krsna, one should not worship any other form, but should
concentrate on the Krsna form. Krsna has many forms, but one only has
to worship Krsna in His form with the flute, as in the Radha-Krsna Deity.
Simply concentrate on that form, and all mental speculation and fruitive
activities will fall away. One has to cultivate Krsna consciousness favor-
ably, and that means to execute service by which Krsna becomes
satisfied. Krsna consciousness is not attained by manufacturing one’s
own way. I may think that Iam doing something in Krsna consciousness,
but who has sanctioned it? For instance, in the Bhagavad-gitd, Arjuna
hesitated to fight, for certain moral reasons, but he was viewing the situa-
tion from the platform of fruitive activities, on which one has to enjoy or
suffer the results. He was considering that if he killed his family mem-
bers, he would then be subjected to many reactions. This conclusion,
however, was not sanctioned by Krsna. The law of action and reaction in
the material world is called karma, but devotional service transcends
karma.

Unalloyed love must be free of all tinges of fruitive activities (karma)
and all tinges of mental speculation and material desire. That unalloyed
devotional service should be favorably fixed on Krsna. ‘‘Favorably”’
means in accordance with what He desires. Krsna desired that the Battle
of Kuruksetra take place; it was all arranged by Him. Arjuna was told,
‘*You are thinking in your own way, but even if you do not fight, rest
assured that because it has been arranged by Me, none of these warriors
who are assembled here are going back to their homes. They will be
killed here. It has already been arranged.’’ God’s desire is such that one
cannot change it. Krsna has two qualities: He can protect, and He can also
kill. If He wants to kill someone, theré is no power in the world that can
protect him, and if He protects someone, there is no power in the world
that can kill him. Krsna’s desire is supreme. Therefore, we have to
dovetail our desires with Krsna’s. Whatever Krsna desires, no one can
make null and void because He is the Supreme Lord. Therefore, our duty
is to dovetail our acts with Krsna’s desire, not to manufacture an action
and then declare: ‘‘I am doing this action in Krsna consciousness.’’ We
have to be very careful to ascertain whether Krsna actually wants it. Such
authorized knowledge is instructed by the representative of Krsna. In our
prayers of praise to the spiritual master we are singing daily, ‘‘If the spiri-
tual master is satisfied, then God will be satisfied. And if one dissatisfies
his spiritual master, then there is no way for him to please God.”’
