To desire Krishna’s remembrance – that is natural | Sri Caitanya-caritamrita, New York

Prabhupada, New York, November 30, 1966:

daridrya-nasa, bhava-ksaya,—premera ‘phala’ naya prema-sukha-bhoga—mukhya prayojana haya

So by devotional service one should not expect, “My miserable material condition may be improved” or “I may be liberated from this material entanglement.” So that is also a kind of sense gratification. If I want that “Let me be free from this entanglement…”

Just like the yogis and the jnanis, they try. They try to be free from this material entanglement. But in the devotional service there is no such desire, because it is pure love. There is no expectation that “I shall be profited in this way.”

No, it is not a profitable commercial business, that “Unless I get in return something, oh, I shall not practice the devotional service in Krishna consciousness. There is no question of profit. Lord Caitanya prays to the Lord like this:

na dhanam na janam na sundarim kavitam va jagad-isa kamaye mama janmani janmanisvare bhavatad bhaktir ahaituki tvayi

“Oh,” He says, “My dear Lord, Jagadisa…” Jagadisa means the Supreme Lord, Krishna. Jagat, jagat means this world, material world or spiritual world, all worlds. Jagat. Jagat gacchati iti jagat: “Which is progressing, that is called jagat.”

So Jagat-isa, the supreme master of this jagat, going concern. “Jagadisa, O the supreme master of this jagat, I pray unto You that I do not want,” na dhanam, “I do not want any wealth,” na janam, “I do not want any number of followers…” Na janam na dhanam na kavitam va jagadisa kamaye. Kavitam means very nice wife, poetical… “I do not want.” “Then what do You want?”

Mama janmani janmanisvare. Janmani janmani means “birth after birth.” So He does not want liberation also. Because when we speak of liberation, there is no birth. Mad-gatva punar janma na vidyate: “One who reaches the kingdom of God, he hasn’t got to come back again to take birth here.” So here Lord Caitanya says, mama janmani janmani: “Birth after birth.” That means “I do not want liberation also.” Mama janmani janmani.

“Then what do You want?” Isvare bhavatad bhaktir ahaituki: “My dear Lord, I may be put in any condition of My life, but please bestow this benediction, that I may not forget You. That’s all. I may not forget You. Because due to My forgetfulness I am suffering so much. So if I can remember You, I don’t mind in whatever condition I am.”

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