Sri Caitanya-caritamrta | Madhya-lila Chapter 20 — To release a conditioned soul from material bondage is very difficult because the spell of maya is so strong. Even when the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself descends to deliver conditioned souls, asking them to surrender unto Him, the conditioned souls do not agree to the Lord’s proposals.
Therefore Sri Sanatana Gosvami said, “Somehow or other, if one helps another gain release from the bondage of maya, he is certainly recognized immediately by the Supreme Personality of Godhead.” As stated in Bhagavad-gita (18.69):
na ca tasman manusyesu
kascin me priya-krttamah
bhavita na ca me tasmad
anyah priyataro bhuvi
The greatest service one can render to the Lord is to try to infuse devotional service into the heart of the conditioned soul so that the conditioned soul may be released from conditional life.
Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura has said that a Vaisnava is recognized by his preaching work-that is, by convincing the conditioned soul about his eternal position, which is explained here as nija-dharma.
It is the living entity’s eternal position to serve the Lord; therefore to help one get release from material bondage is to awaken one to the dormant understanding that he is the eternal servant of Krsna. jivera ’svarupa’ haya-krsnera ’nitya-dasa’. This will be further explained by the Lord Himself to Sanatana Gosvami.
pamho agtACBSP,
this dilemma of the conditioned soul who not agrees to the proposal of the Lord has been all the time since the beginning of creation – that’s why there is the material world.
Therefore SRI KRSNA appeared in a jail in Mathura dham to teach us that this material world is a prison house.
The most important thing is to not forget KRSNA by staying connected – even if the service is not completely pure yet but it will become if we remember KRSNA as SRI KUNTI DEVI and her 5 Pandavas sons did to remind us that it is better to accept the proposal of the Lord.
Prabhupadanuga sat-sanga helps us to attain perfection – jivera svarupa hoy krsnera nitya dasa ki jai.
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haribol
Very nicely said. First we have to untie ourself, atleast we should have some knowledge, sacrifice, dedication, discipline and then only we should go and preach, otherwise if we just subdue our false ego upon others which is often happening nowadays than it will not work.
Radhe Radhe