The soul's eternal joy blooms only in surrender to Krishna, not in the barking emptiness of imagined independence.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Morning Walk — November 4, 1975, Bombay 751104MW-BOMBAY [52:53 Minutes] Walk_751104MW-BOMBAY Girirāja: ...very nice. Very nice. Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: It's very long also.
Prabhupāda: Long and broad. [aside:] Hare Kṛṣṇa. Jaya. [break] ...is anātha, without any master, like these dogs, loitering, no hope where to get food, where to take shelter.
Anātha. Anātha and sa-nātha. And you'll find a big man taking care of the dog, and he's happy and barking like any..., "Aw! Aw!
Aw!"—because he has got his master. And this poor fellow has no master; therefore he is suffering, anātha. [break] ...Yamunācārya, very nice. Mano-rathāntaram.
Kadāham aikāntika-nitya-kiṅkaraḥ praharṣayiṣyāmi sa-nātha-jīvitam. [break] ...the dog, that "These are saintly persons. If they can take me..." [break] bhavantam evānucaran nirantaraḥ praśānta-niḥśeṣa-mano-rathāntaraḥ kadāham aikāntika-nitya-kiṅkaraḥ praharṣayiṣyāmi sa-nātha-jīvitam [Cc. Madhya 1.206] Bhavantam eva caran nirantaraḥ: "Simply abiding by the orders of Your Lordship," bhavantam eva caran, "acting," nirantaraḥ "twenty-four hours," and prasanta-niḥśeṣa-mano-rathāntaraḥ, "and finishing all this mental business, mental concoction, making plans." Niḥśeṣa-mano-rathāntaraḥ.
Bhavantam eva caran nirantaraḥ prasanta-niḥśeṣa-mano-rathāntaraḥ, kadāham aikāntika-nitya-kiṅkaraḥ: "When I shall be unalloyedly devotee of Your Lordship, and," praharṣayiṣyāmi, "I shall be jubilant, living," sa-nātha-jīvitam, "that 'I have got my master. I have got my master.' I have no cares and anxiety." bhavantam evānucaran nirantaraḥ praśānta-niḥśeṣa-mano-rathāntaraḥ kadāham aikāntika-nitya-kiṅkaraḥ praharṣayiṣyāmi sa-nātha-jīvitam [Cc. Madhya 1.206] This is the ideal of life, to become sa-nātha-jīvitam, living with hope that "I have got my master who will give me protection." That is ideal life. Others, they are living independently—anātha, no master.
Just like a child without having father and mother is called anātha. So-called independence means anātha. Anātha. What is the independence?