How can we be detached when we want to offer the best service to Krishna?

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So Naturally if you say cooking for the Lord We want to cook nicely And if it doesn’t come nicely we feel upset So how can we be detached When we are in service for the Lord See there are two different things over here That Sometimes despite our best efforts Some service results may not come Like Prabhupada’s one example is In India He was preaching for almost 40 years Doing so much And we had very tangible result in that Very little tangible result So we have to understand Sometimes despite our best efforts The results will not come So We can introspect and check If we did something wrong And we can learn and try to improve it But sometimes the results just don’t come So If our attachment is to the results We have to understand that Krishna primarily sees the endeavors So it was not that Prabhupada became successful After he came to America and preached all over the world Prabhupada was already successful In Krishna’s eyes Because he was wholeheartedly serving And success became Manifest to the world later When the preaching Mission spread all over the world So even if there is no one Even if no one Even if the world does not see the result If we are endeavoring sincerely Krishna is pleased by that So If some result does not come We can use our intelligence to see What I did wrong, what could I do right And we move forward Sometimes result doesn’t come Still we have to keep serving That is the move So it’s not that we are Apathetic about our service We definitely want to be responsible We want to offer our best to Krishna But sometimes Prabhupada also writes in the first canto That if things are beyond human control Then there is nothing to lament We have done our part Still things are going wrong Then there is nothing to lament If we keep lamenting Why did this not work out right Then basically We live in the past And we lose the opportunity In the present for ourselves So we definitely Want to learn from the past But learning from the past Is different from living in the past Living in the past means My mind Is doing like a perpetual Auto-replay of whatever went wrong Why did this happen Why did this happen Why Why did he do that Why did I do like that It just goes on and on It’s over now That chapter of life is over We have to move on Sometimes when something has gone wrong If we are too close to that event We can’t even learn properly We are too emotionally Involved with it Sometimes we just need to close that chapter We have to know that Life is too precious To be wasted In post-mortem operations So just move ahead And maybe after a few days Few weeks Thereafter When we have had some distance from that event Distance from that Then we will be able to see with more Objectivity, more detachment And more clarity What went wrong What I could have done right But one of the very big problems in life is that One thing goes wrong And the result of that is That we let many other things go wrong Because we start living in the past We start lamenting about the past And we don’t do things in the present So if Despite our best efforts Things go wrong We should know that The principle of service Is more important than the form of service So One particular form of service may not work out right But then still I am a servant of Krishna And I will keep serving Krishna So that detachment doesn’t mean Detachment in the sense of Being uncaring or pathetic About our service to Krishna Detachment means that I don’t let The flow of my service to Krishna Be limited by any Particular form So if I can’t serve Krishna like this I will serve Krishna like this So Prabhupada tried to Start a back to world magazine That didn’t work, people were not interested In reading magazines He made a league of devotees, made an organization But he found that People were not cooperating He started working With his god brothers And he found his god brothers Were not cooperating He switched over and he started Writing his own Bhagavata So basically the Form of service, if you become too attached To that, this is what I should do And this is what should work out Sometimes then the time may not be right For that, things may not work out So we find out some other way to keep serving Krishna So we are very attached to Krishna We are very attached to wanting to serve Krishna But we are detached from The form If this doesn’t work out, I’m ready to serve with some other Does it answer your question?