CC daily 206 – 7.39-41 – Understand the CV needed to be the Lord’s servant

Thank you Shretanikata Amrit chapter 7 text 39 krishnadasan rishis rishis rishis rishis japa patra vastra vahi to ma sang gaya be ye to mara iccha kara kichu na bali be tabe tandravakya prabhu kari yangi kare taha sab alaiya gela sarvabhauma ghare So here, Janand Prabhu, after realising that Lord Chaitanya was not going to accept any of them, either him or the other intimate associates as his companion on the South India journey, he proposes Sarala Brahman, the Brahman assistant, Krishna Das. He says, he will carry your cloth, he will take care of you and he will just do whatever you tell him. He will not speak one word.
It’s interesting that normally when people want to get some job, they have to blow up their CV. So, for example, if someone just turns off a tap of water somewhere and saves some water, that person may write in one CV that I saved 5000 ml of water and thus contributed 0.001% to minimizing the problem of climate change due to excessive hydrophobic denudation. Whatever that means.
The point is that people usually blow up their profiles and every small thing that they have done, they try to put it in bombastic terms to try to impress others. And the whole spirit is that in this world there is a lot of competition and for every job there are many candidates for competing. And it’s not easy for anyone to qualify.
So, therefore, whatever is done is put things aside and leave them for others to deal with. That means put one’s own, not just the best side, it’s quite okay to put one’s best side forward, but it’s quite another thing to exaggerate things so that others can be neglected and one will be selected. That is unfortunately the way the world is today.
It’s ultra competitive world and in general the nature of material existence is that there are, as in economics, the underlying paradox is said to be there are unlimited desires and limited resources to fulfill those desires. And that’s what causes the competition and ultimately the frustration. Now, among the limited resources, of course, there is limited oil, there is limited land.
Those are resources which are limited, but along with that there are limited jobs. So then people compete and compete quite intensely to try to get the best job, to try to get the best position. And thus they end up feeling frustrated sometimes because they do not get what they want.
And then they try to blow up their profile even more. So here, when Lord Chaitanya is to go to South India, what is the profile of the candidate who gets the job? Normally you would say that a Brahmana is very learned, a Brahmana is very austere, a Brahmana is very clean in culture. Krishna gives the qualities of a Brahmana in the Bhagavad Gita.
Krishna says that that actually there is mind control, sense control, austerity, cleanliness. Tolerance of peacefulness, truthfulness, straightforwardness, knowledge, realization and faith. These are the qualities out of which Brahma Karma is done.
Born from this Svabhava, Svabhavajam, are the Brahma Karma. So Krishna is saying here that It’s interesting the way Krishna puts it, Brahma Karma, Svabhavajam. Now, what are the Brahma Karma? Brahma Karma is usually talked of in terms of Yajan, Yajan, Pathan, Pathan and Daan Parigraha.
Performing Yajan, teaching others to perform Yajan. Pathan, Pathan. Studying scripture, teaching others to study scripture.
Daan Parigraha, receiving charity and giving charity. So, those Brahma Karma, how are they born? They are from qualities. Now, these qualities are important in a Brahmana.
But, when it comes to Krishnadas, this Krishna is of course different from Krishnadas Kaviraj Goswami, who is not a contemporary of Lord Chaitanya. He was born later, one generation later, and almost one generation later. And he wrote, most of the biographies of Lord Chaitanya had already been written by the time he started writing.
And he started writing actually in his old age also. So, that Krishnadas is definitely different from this Krishnadas going to South India. Going to South India with Lord Chaitanya.
And his qualification is that Sarala. He is straightforward, he is not a complicated person. And he says, he will simply do what you tell, O Lord.
And he will not interfere with your plans in any way. Not only that he will not interfere, he will not speak one word. So, normally Brahmanas are expected to speak.
Brahmanas are said to have two duties. One is to accept food on behalf of the Lord. And the second is to speak on behalf of the Lord.
So, both of these are important. And yet among them, more important is sharing, speaking, so as to share spiritual knowledge. And here we see that that Nityanand Prabhu recommends Krishnadas.
Not because he will speak so eloquently, but that he will speak nothing. The idea is, Lord Chaitanya has objected that you people interfere with my plans and disrupt my mind. So then, given the special circumstances that they are in, he says, this qualification is that he won’t interfere with your plans.
Not only will his actions not be an interference, even his words will not be an interference. And then, Lord Chaitanya agrees. So, we may require to bloat our CV when we are approaching the Lord.
Sorry, when we are trying to get a job in this world. But every job requires a particular kind of CV, as we say. And if we are to serve the Lord, the primary qualification that we need is that we be willing to serve Him.
If He wants us to speak, we speak. If He wants us to be silent, we stay silent. If He wants us to do a prominent service, we do that service.
If He wants us to do an insignificant service, no service of the Lord is insignificant, but insignificant in the sense that, sorry, we could use more appropriate words, an inconspicuous service, we are ready to do that. And it is that mood of devotion, of devotional disposition, of devotional surrender, that of being simple, uncomplicated and uninterfering, that uninterfering but obliging, that becomes the qualification for Krishnadas to become the assistant of Lord Chaitanya during his travels.