Surrender to Krishna immediately restores your eternal servitude and transcends all material conditions of life.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Life Member House Lecture — April 14, 1975, Hyderabad 750414L2-HYDERABAD [26:11 Minutes] Lecture_750414L2-HYDERABAD Prabhupāda: [indistinct] this, I can keep it, no? This I can keep it, no? Devotee: [indistinct] be so loud. Prabhupāda: Alright. So Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura has sung, kīṭa janma hao yathā tuyā dāsa, bahir nā brahma janme nāhi mora āsa. Kītā janma hao yathā tuyā dāsa.
Tuyā dāsa means "your servant." Actually, we are all servants of Kṛṣṇa. Jīvera svarūpa hoy nitya kṛṣṇa dāsa. But forgetting our position, we are now acting as dāsa of māyā, māyāra-dāsa. Hoiya māyāra dāsa kori nānā abhilāṣ.
The advantage of kṛṣṇa-dāsa is that he has got only one desire: ānukūlyena kṛṣṇānu-śīlanam [Cc. Madhya 19.167]—to serve Kṛṣṇa purely. That's all. Kṛṣṇa is not impersonal.
Kṛṣṇa is person, and whatever He orders, whatever He says, if you carry out faithfully, then our original constitutional position is regained. It can be done very quickly. Kṛṣṇa says, sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja [Bg. 18.66]. And if you do that immediately, then you revive your original position immediately, within a second. Hoiya māyāra dāsa kori nānā abhilās.
We are making plans in so many ways to be happy. But if we accept this one plan, that immediately surrender to Kṛṣṇa, then our life is successful. And if we do not accept this proposal of Kṛṣṇa, and if we make our own plans to be happy, it will be never be possible. Hoiya māyāra dāsa kori nānā abhilāṣ.
Anādi bahirmukha jīva kṛṣṇa bhuli gelā, ataeva māyāra tare goliyā badila. We are not independent. If we do not agree to serve Kṛṣṇa, then we have to serve māyā. Our position as servant is never changed.
We remain servant. So if we don't agree to accept Kṛṣṇa's proposal, sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja [Bg. 18.66], then we have to take shelter of māyā and you have to perpetually serve. Bhūtvā bhūtvā pralīyate [Bg. 8.19]. To serve māyā means to continue this material existence one after another. Now I've got this body, you've got this body, and if we do not change our attitude to serve Kṛṣṇa, then we get again next body.