Category:Becoming a Servant of Krsna
Theme Analysis
This analysis addresses the fundamental existential question of the living entity's identity. Śrīla Prabhupāda teaches that the soul is constitutionally an eternal servant. This nature is unchangeable; one cannot avoid service. The only choice available to the living entity is the object of that service. If one refuses the process of becoming a servant of Kṛṣṇa, one is forced by the laws of nature to become a servant of māyā, the senses, family, country, or ultimately, a dog. The analysis highlights Śrīla Prabhupāda’s famous "God or Dog" analogy, illustrating that the attempt to become a master in the material world is an illusion. True freedom and satisfaction are found only when one revives their original position as an obedient servant of the Supreme Lord.
- The Constitutional Position: Everyone is a servant by nature. The struggle to become a master (īśvara) is the root cause of material suffering.
- God or Dog: If one rejects the service of God, one accepts the service of lower entities, even to the point of serving a pet dog.
- Servant of the Senses: Serving māyā practically means serving the dictates of lust, anger, and greed.
- Beyond Religion: The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is not about changing labels (Christian to Hindu) but about reviving the universal servant nature of the soul.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Servant of God or Servant of Dog? – The Choice of Becoming a Servant of Kṛṣṇa.
Pages in category "Becoming a Servant of Krsna"
The following 54 pages are in this category, out of 54 total.
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- Our principle is not to proselytize from Christian to Hindu or Muhammadan to Hindu. We are teaching simply how to revive his own constitutional position to become servant of Krsna, how to love God. That is Krsna consciousness movement
- Servant he must remain, but if he does not become servant of Krsna, he has to become servant of so many things
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- A foolish man, if he is informed that there is better life in the spiritual world, to become servant of God, Krsna, they think, "I became servant of this material world. I have suffered so much. Again servant of Krsna? Oh..." They shudder
- Although Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is personally the Supreme Lord, Krsna, He comes as a devotee to preach the Krsna consciousness movement. Yare dekha, tare kaha 'krsna'-upadesa. One must therefore become a sincere servant of Krsna
- As soon as he's requested that, "You become servant of Krsna," "Oh, this is nonsense. They are old-type people." - We have invented something new, to become servant of sex and intoxication
- As soon as one is said that "You become God's servant," "Oh, again servant?" But he's actually servant of intoxication. That will continue
- As soon as you become servant of Krsna you get full satisfaction. Sa-natha-jivitah means you will understand that "I have a master who is so full, who is so complete, who is so competent, who is so faithful, and who is so nice, there is no injustice"
- As stated in this verse (SB 4.25.11), the living entity independently wants to become a prabhu, but as soon as he gives up this idea and becomes a servant of God, Krsna, his happiness immediately begins
- As you become servant of Krsna, then automatically you become master of your senses, because senses cannot allure you for satisfaction of the senses, because senses are engaged
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- Dharma means to become servant of Krsna, and adharma means to become servant of maya. This is the distinction between dharma and adharma, religious and irreligious
- Dr. J. Stillson Judah, a learned scholar, has been very much attracted to this Hare Krsna movement because he has actually seen that it is turning hippies addicted to drugs into pure Vaisnavas who voluntarily become servants of Krsna and humanity
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- He has to change only; instead of becoming servant of maya, be servant of Krsna. Servant he is. Where he'll go? How he will become master
- Here everyone is trying to become master, and everyone wants to avoid service. But by the nature's law, one has to become servant and render service, going on
- Here the struggle is that everyone is trying to become isvara. Nobody wants to become servant, although he is servant of maya
- How that consciousness acts? That "I am a servant of God. I am servant of Krsna." When this consciousness is firmly fixed up, this is called Krsna consciousness
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- If you actually have become transcendental servant of Krsna, if the qualities of brahmana is lacking, then you are not perfect. The brahminical qualification must be there
- If you are trained up to become a faithful servant, just become a faithful servant of Krsna; then your business is complete
- If you become proud by becoming the most confidential servant of Krsna, the same pride is for your liberation
- If you don't become servant of Krsna, then you become servant of your wife, your children, your relative, your country, your nation, your dog. At last, if you have no family, then you become servant of your dog
- If you don't become servant of Krsna, then you have to become servant of maya. You cannot be master of maya. That is not possible. Master of maya is Krsna. Mama maya
- If you don't become servant of Krsna, then you have to become servant of the dog. This is nature's way. Therefore intelligent person will take lesson from it
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- Krsna consciousness movement means everyone is engaged cent percent to become servant of Krsna. So those who are sincerely engaged in the service of the Lord, they are all liberated. They are all liberated
- Krsna is nobody's servant, but everyone is Krsna's servant. If everyone becomes Krsna's servant, then everyone is protected by Krsna. Krsna is God, so He is protecting everyone, He is giving food everyone, but especially inclined to the devotees
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- One has to become the servant of Krsna, or the servant of the servant of Krsna. That is the right way to discharge duty in Krsna consciousness, which alone can help one to act in yoga. BG 1972 purports
- Our only responsibility is how to become obedient servant of Krsna
- Our principle is not to proselytize from Christian to Hindu or Muhammadan to Hindu. We are teaching simply how to revive his old constitutional position to become servant of Krsna. This is Krsna consciousness movement
- Our real business is how we shall be successful to become an obedient servant of Krsna. That's all. That is real success
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- The Krsna consciousness movement is so nice. You can make direct friendship with Krsna. You can become direct servant of Krsna. Or, in higher stages, you can become father, mother of Krsna. Or you can become lover of Krsna
- The more we advance in so-called material amenities, we forget God. So the inherent, dormant propensity is to become servant of God, but material association is checking him
- They (neighbors of temple in Los Angeles) are right. Somehow or other we are getting everything we need, and we have no problems, for if one simply becomes a sincere servant of Krsna, everything is provided
- This is Vaisnava. He doesn't want anything. Why he will want? If he becomes servant of Krsna, then what does he want? Suppose if you become servant of a very, very big man, then what is the question of your want? This is intelligence
- This is very good intelligence: just to try to become the sincere servant of Krsna. All your necessities of life will be sufficiently supplied. There is no question of asking
- This Krsna consciousness movement is training people how to become unalloyed servant of Krsna. Suddha-bhakta, unalloyed, without any adulteration
- To become a servant of servant of servant of servant of Krsna. This is parampara system. In that way one can give up the deep attachment for all these, our creation, our developing attachments, grha-ksetra-sutapta-vittaih
- To become servant of Krsna, or God, is the supreme satisfaction. That service is very valuable service
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- Unfortunately we are trying to become master. Instead of submitting ourself to become the eternal.... We are eternal servant. We cannot be master. If we do not become servant of Krsna, then we have to become the servant of our senses
- Unfortunately, however, instead of becoming Krsna's servants, we are becoming servants of so many other things. We are servants of our senses and the sensual activities of lust, anger, greed, and illusion. Actually the whole world is serving in this way
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- We are so foolish rascal that we are prepared to become servant of the most abominable activities of our senses, but we are not prepared to surrender to Krsna and become His servant
- We can become a direct servant of Krsna, or in the highest stages we can become Krsna's father, mother or lover. Krsna is prepared to establish a loving relationship with all living entities
- We do not want to become Krsna. We are trying to become Krsna's servant. That is the difference between Mayavada philosophy and Vaisnava philosophy
- We don't claim that we are on the equal level of Krsna. That is not our philosophy. We claim to become servant of the servant of the servant of the servant of servant of Krsna (CC Madhya 13.80). This is our position
- We don't want to become Krsna, but we want to become the most obedient servant of Krsna. That is our proposition
- We forget our relationship with God, or Krsna. Then adharma. That is... Instead of becoming servant of Krsna, I become servant of so many things
- We teach our men to address his fellow man as prabhu, "You are master, I am servant." In the material world, everyone is trying to become master; nobody is trying to become servant
- When he forgets this relationship, that he is eternal servant of God, that means his material existence. In the material existence, nobody is prepared to become servant. Everyone is prepared to become the master
- When one is situated on the platform of self-realization, he can certainly be easily attracted by Krsna and become a servant of the Lord. This is explained in the Bhagavad-gita - 18.54