So service of Krsna is not idleness. There are different methods of spiritual realization, especially jnana and yoga. That is all right, but actual process of self-realization is service. If you speculate to know about God... You can do so, but after knowing God, if you do not know what God desires you to do, then such kind of knowledge is simply waste of time. That is, you may, of course... That is not real knowledge. Real knowledge is tothat will be explainedto be induced to give some service to the Lord. In the beginning, this is called santa-rasa, to understand the greatness of God, "God is great."

There is a song, the devotee is singing that sita atapa bata varisana. Sita means severe cold, winter season, snow falling. That is called sita. And scorching heat. You have no experience of scorching heat. In India we have got 110, 120, and I think Middle East, there is 135. Here you have got less, 50 in winter. So some way or other there is always trouble. This material world means we must suffer trouble. Either scorching heat or pinching cold or blast or adhidaivika, adhyatmika. These things should be discussed. But still we got to work, why? Only for love. That is the only cause. I love my children, I love my wife, or I love my country, my society. Love is there. But this love is not giving me satisfaction. We are disappointed. As I, yesterday I cited the example of Mahatma Gandhi. For his country's love, he did so much. He wanted Hindu-Muslim unity, and he wanted nonviolence. In this way he was organizing. But the world is so ungrateful that instead of unity of Hindu-Muslim, in India we experienced complete partition, Hindustan and Pakistan. So he was baffled. And so far nonviolence was concerned, he was killed by violence. So he died very disappointed. So everyone... This is giving the best example, typical example. Everyone. We are attached to the love of this material world, but we are all disappointed. From everyone's experience, you'll find. Everyone is disappointed. Both sides, the lover and the beloved, both sides. You have got very good experience in this country. They marry, again they are divorced, because disappointed. So this is going on. Therefore our love has to be reposed to Krsna. That is the recommendation of Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Caitanya Mahaprabhu said, prema pumartho mahan. Pumartho, we want some achievement in this life. Caitanya Mahaprabhu said, "Achieve love of Godhead. That is the best." Prema pumartho mahan. So this Krsna consciousness movement is for that purpose, how we can develop our love for Krsna. The love is already there, but it is misplaced, misplaced. Somebody is loving somebody, somebody is loving somebody, but it is misplaced. Real love, if it is executed for the service of the Lord, then our life is successful.

He is first-class yogi. Who? "Who is always thinking of Me," Krsna says. Always thinking of Krsna. Always thinking "How I shall preach Krsna's words, Krsna's message?" The Caitanya Mahaprabhu's mission and Krsna's mission is the same. Only the difference is that Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, He's ordering. Because He's God, He has the position to order you, everyone. Everyone is servant, and He is the supreme master; therefore He is ordering, sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja [Bg. 18.66]. So you give up all other occupational duties, simply engage yourself to serve Him. This is His order. But people misunderstood it because they are not trained up. Therefore Krsna again came as Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu to distribute Krsna.

So Caitanya Mahaprabhu also said the same thing, yare dekha, tare kaha 'krsna'-upadesa [Cc. Madhya 7.128]. He does not say, "I have manufactured something, you take it." No. He said you take up seriously what Krsna has said, yare dekha, tare kaha 'krsna'-upadesa. So every acarya... Sanatana Gosvami is acarya, direct disciple of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. He is taking shelter. He has already taken; therefore he said, krpa kari' yadi more kariyacha uddhara. He's already, he knows. Because he met Caitanya Mahaprabhu when he was minister and he got the inspiration that "I must resign from this post, my ministership. I must join Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu to spread this Krsna consciousness movement," then that determination, he is already liberated. That determination. Therefore he says, "I know it is not a very easy thing. I was minister, I was in a very good position." Tyaktva turnam asesa-mandala-pati-srenim sada tucchavat. He was minister. Naturally, his associate were very, very exalted persons. Tyaktva turnam asesa-mandala-pati, mandala-pati, big, big leaders, big, big merchants, big, big industrialists or something like that, very, very big men. They are called mandala-pati. One who has control over many people, he is called mandala-pati. So who will have control unless he is a very big man? So about these Gosvamis it is said, tyaktva turnam asesa-mandala-pati-srenim sada tucchavat. They gave up such position, exalted position, tucchavat, "Eh. Insignificant. What is this?" There is no meaning of this. He was not madman, but he gave up. He understood that these exalted posts... They are hankering after, they are trying to capture the big, big post, materialistic persons, laboring so hard, spending so much money. And he already possessed that position, and out of his own, or the inspiration by Krsna, he resigned it. The master, the Nawab Shah, was unwilling to give him release. He became very, very sorry, that "If Sanatana Gosvami resigns, then my empire will be ruined. I was so confident that he is managing. Now he's going to resign, the whole responsibility will be mine." So he became very much disturbed. He arrested him, "No, you cannot resign, then I'll keep you arrested." So many things happened. But still he resigned and he came to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

So in this connection, Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura said that "My only duty is to execute the order of my spiritual master. I do not mind whether I am going to hell or going back to Godhead. No. My only life and soul is to execute the order of my spiritual master." He has explained like that. So devotional service is great responsibility, to execute the order of the superior. Then our life is successful.