I am not surrendering to somebody for his satisfaction, but for my satisfaction. I join some political party because I am finding out the opportunity how I can become a minister or how I can capture some power by going through this political party. This is my real aim. I do not go to serve the country. Maybe one or two. But my real purpose is how to get some opportunity, some position. Therefore I am not serving that party but I am serving my ambition.

Service and Servitude

Our business is to surrender — but where to surrender?

Because every one of us, we have surrendered to somebody. Analyze everyone. He has somebody superior where he has surrendered. It may be his family, his wife, or his government, his community, his society, his political party. Anywhere you go, the characteristic is to surrender. That you cannot avoid. That was the talk with Professor Kotovsky in Moscow. I asked him, "Now, you have got your Communist philosophy. We have got our Krishna philosophy. Where is the difference in philosophy? You have surrendered to Lenin, and we have surrendered to Krishna. Where is the difference?" Everyone has to surrender. It doesn't matter where he is surrendering. If the surrendering is correct, then the things are correct. If the surrendering is not correct, then things are not correct. This is the philosophy. So we are surrendering.

Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu has explained this: Jivera svarupa haya nitya-krishna-dasa [Chaitanya-charitamrita Madhya 20.108-109]. We are surrendering, but we are not surrendering to Krishna. This is the disease. This is the disease. And Krishna consciousness movement means to cure this disease. Cure this disease. Krishna comes also. He says, yada yada hi dharmasya [Bg. 4.7: "Whenever and wherever there is a decline in religious practice, O descendant of Bharata, and a predominant rise of irreligion—at that time I descend Myself."]. The dharmasya glanih, discrepancies in the matter of execution religion, when there is discrepancies, Krishna says, tadatmanam srijamy aham. And abhyutthanam adharmasya. Two things are there. When people do not surrender to Krishna, they manufacture so many "Krishnas". So many rascals to surrender there. That is adharmasya. Dharma means to surrender to Krishna, but instead of surrendering to Krishna, they want to surrender to cats, dogs, this, that, so many things. That is adharma.

Krishna did not come to establish the so-called Hindu religion or Muslim religion or Christian religion. No. He came to establish real religion. Real religion means we have to submit, surrender to the real person. That is real religion. We are surrendering. Everyone has got some idea. He has surrendered there. Either political, social, economical, religious, anything. Everyone has got some idea. And the leader of that ideal is also there. So our business is to surrender. That is a fact. But we do not know where to surrender. That is the difficulty. And because the surrender is mistaken or misplaced, therefore the whole world is chaotic condition.

We are changing this surrender to that surrender. No more Congress Party. Now Communist Party." Again, "No more Communist Party. This... This party, that party." What is the use of changing party? Because this party or that party, they are not surrendered to Krishna. So unless you come to the point of surrendering to Krishna, there cannot be any peace. That is the point. Simply by changing from frying pan to the fire will not save you. Therefore Krishna's last instruction is:

sarva-dharman parityajya
mam ekam sharanam vraja
aham tvam sarva-papebhyo
mokshayishyami ma shuchah

"Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reactions. Do not fear." [Bg. 18.66]

So the discrepancy of religion means... This is also stated in the Srimad-Bhagavatam. Sa vai pumsam paro dharmah. First class or superior dharma. Parah means superior, transcendental. Sa vai pumsam paro dharmo yato bhaktir adhokshaje [SB 1.2.6]. When we surrender to the Adhokshaja... Adhokshaja means the supreme transcendence, or Krishna. Krishna's another name is Adhokshaja. Ahaituky apratihata. Ahaituki means without any cause. Without any cause. Not that "Krishna is such and such, therefore I surrender." No. Without any cause. Ahaituky apratihata. And it cannot be checked. Nobody can check. If you want to surrender to Krishna, there is no checking, there is no hindrance. You can do it in any position. You can do it. Ahaituky apratihata yayatma suprasidati. Then you will... atma, your atma, your soul, your mind, your body, will be satisfied. This is the process.

There is one verse by a learned scholar that here we are surrendering to somebody... I am not surrendering to somebody for his satisfaction, but for my satisfaction. I join some political party because I am finding out the opportunity how I can become a minister or how I can capture some power by going through this political party. This is my real aim. I do not go to serve the country. Maybe one or two. But my real purpose is how to get some opportunity, some position. Therefore I am not serving that party but I am serving my ambition.

Therefore service means, at the present moment, service means kamadinam kati na katidha palita durnideshah. Our so-called service is to serve my lust. Kamadinam. Kama, krodha, lobha, moha, matsarya. We have got all these things. So somebody is serving lust, somebody is serving his anger, somebody his greediness. In this way we are serving the senses. Not the particular person. When you go to the office, we serve. But you do not serve the office, but we serve the money. Because he is paying me, as soon as he says, "Now tomorrow I cannot pay, " then, "namaskara." Therefore he is serving the money. And why money? "Because money will help me in satisfying my senses. Therefore I am serving my senses." Nobody is serving anyone. Everyone is serving his senses. This is the position. This is dharmasya glanir bhavati. As soon as we are engaged in serving our senses, that is dharmasya glanih. And as soon as we agree to serve the senses of Krishna, that is dharma.