Adi-tila, Chapter 6 545

“| do not want any one of the four desirable stations. | simply want to engage as a
servant of the lotus feet of the Lord.” King Kulasekhara, in his very famous book
Mukunda-mald-stotra, prays:

naham vande pada-kamalayor dvandvam advandva-hetoh
kumbhi-pakam gurum api hare naérakam ndpanetum
ramyd-ramd-mydu-tanu-latd-nandane nabhirantum
bhave bhave hrdaya-bhavane bhavayeyam bhavantam

“My Lord, | do not worship You to be liberated from this material entanglement,
nor do | wish to save myself from the hellish condition of material existence, nor do
| ever pray for a beautiful wife to enjoy in a nice garden. | wish only that | may
always be in full ecstasy with the pleasure of serving Your Lordship.’’ (M.m.s. 6) In
Srimad-Bhagavatam also there are many instances in the Third and Fourth Cantos
in which devotees pray to the Lord simply to be engaged in His service, and nothing
else (Bhag. 3.4.15, 3.25.34, 3.25.36, 4.1.22, 4.9.10 and 4.20.24).

TEXT 43

CHS Bfwata-yzee wire AAC |
‘Saayy’ Be — HNC Grxcwa VF i Bo Wi

sei abhimana-sukhe dpand pdasare
‘krsna-dasa’ hao——jive upadesa kare

SYNONYMS

sei—that; abhimdna-sukhe—in the happiness of that conception; dpana—Himself;
pasare—He forgets; krsna-dasa hao—You are servants of Lord Krsna; jve—the living
beings; upadesa kare—He instructs.

TRANSLATION

He forgets Himself in the joy of that conception and teaches all living entities,
“You are servants of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.”

PURPORT

The transcendental devotional service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is
so ecstatic that even the Lord Himself plays the part of a devotee. Forgetting
Himself to be the Supreme, He personally teaches the whole world how to render
service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
