The position of a servant of God is the highest possible.

It is when one truly establishes oneself in the service of love and devotion to Krishna, God, the Supreme Person, that one becomes truly independent.

Men of limited intelligence remain unable to appreciate the real position of the eternal servants of Lord Krishna. The use of the word “servant” leaves them perplexed and even confused; they cannot understand that this form of service has nothing to do with material servitude.

The position of the servant of God is the highest possible. He who can understand this truth, and thus regains his original nature as an eternal servant of the Lord, becomes perfectly independent. He finds true freedom.

The independence of the soul is lost when it comes into contact with matter. But on the spiritual plane, in the spiritual sphere, the soul possesses total independence, so that there is no question at this level of falling under the dependence of the three attributes and modes of influence of material nature, which are: virtue, passion and ignorance.

The holy being, the devotee of God, attains this prestigious position, so that he abandons the tendency to enjoy matter, having become aware of his wrongful nature.

The difference between the devotee and the impersonalist (one who believes that God is a formless Supreme Being) is that the latter seeks to merge into the identity of the Supreme Being, so that he can enjoy existence as he pleases, whereas the saintly being renounces all spirit of enjoyment and adopts the absolute loving service of the Lord. This is his glorious natural, original and eternal condition.

He then becomes fully independent. Of course, the supremely independent Being is none other than Krishna, God, the Supreme Person. The individual being distinct from God, which each of us is, becomes fully independent only when he devotes himself to the service of the Lord. In other words, the spiritual pleasure of loving and devotional service to the Lord is real independence.

Let us all return to live with God.

Human life has no other meaning than to enable the living being to develop his Krishna consciousness, his God consciousness.

What can we do to approach God and stay with Him?

The Lord answers: Always fill your mind with Me, and become My pious servant (My pious maid). Be faithful, devoted, without envy, and committed to My service. Simply surrender yourself to Me. Fear nothing, for I am with you. Do not look on anxiously, for I am your God. I strengthen you, I help you, I uphold you with My triumphant right hand.