10.1 Let my specific desire to serve make me committed, not attached 

ki ko’re bujhābo kathā 

baro sei cāhi

How will they grasp your message so lofty?

For that, O Lord, I seek your mercy.

My dear Lord, Srila Prabhupada is here seeking a specific blessing, which he sees as essential for his service to you. Seeking something specific from you can signify attachment, but it can also signify commitment.

O eternally loving Lord, you want me to be emotionally invested in you. You have not given me emotions so that I give them up, but so that I can give them to you. And one way I give my emotions to you is by expressing them through specific tangible service—just as in any ordinary relationship, I may express my affection for someone on their birthday by giving them a gift.

O omniscient Lord, let my desire for that particular form of service never become greater than my desire for you. Let my commitment be an expression of my desire to serve—not an attachment that makes me insist on serving only in one way or feel resentment when called to serve otherwise.

Through my commitment to serve, my beloved Lord, please draw my heart to you, so that whether my desire to serve in that particular way is fulfilled or not, my heart is fulfilled—by being filled with you.