So our constitutional position is that we are rendering service to somebody superior. In a country, the president or the king or queen, he is also engaged in rendering service to the nation or to the public. Similarly, we are also engaged in rendering service to some office boss or to some government post. If you analyze very nicely you will find that everyone is rendering some service to the superior.
Our this Bhāgavata philosophy says that if you are rendering service to others, somebody superior, you render your service to God, the Supreme. Then you will be happy. Otherwise you will be frustrated. Everyone is rendering service to his family, to his nation. Just like Mahatma Gandhi, he rendered best service to the nation, but the result was frustration, and he was killed. This is a fact.
So you can render service to your society, to your family, to your nation or to the international activities, but unless the center point is God, all such attempts will be frustrated. That is a fact. If you do not understand now, but if you meditate on it, you will see that is the actual fact.
Suppose you are rendering service to his family . . . to your family, and at the old age, if you ask your wife, your children, "Whether you are satisfied? I have rendered service throughout my whole life," now I don't think you will get any satisfactory reply. The children will say: "Father, you have not done this thing for me." The wife will say: "You have not done this for me." That is a fact. Because we are not serving.
Our motive is sense enjoyment. I am serving a wife or a wife is serving his (her) husband, that neither the wife is serving the husband, neither the husband is serving wife, but everyone is serving his senses. When you go to some office, you are serving some boss. Actually you are not serving that boss—you are serving your senses, because the boss will pay you some money, and with that money you will be able to gratify your senses.
In this way, if you analyze, everyone is serving his senses. That is the material existence. And that is said in the Bhāgavatam, that kāmādīnāṁ kati na katidhā pālitā durnideśā. One devotee is offering his prayer to the Supreme that, "I have served my kāma, krodha—lust, anger, greediness—so long." Kāmādīnāṁ kati na katidhā pālitā durnideśās teṣāṁ jātā mayi na karuṇā na trapā (Brs. 3.2.35). "But still, lifelong I have served them, but they are not very much pleased upon me."
You go on increasing your lusty desires, serving, but they will never be satisfied. The lusty desires will, I mean to say, dictate that you go on serving like this, go on serving like this, go on serving like this. You cannot satisfy your lusty desires. Similarly, you cannot satisfy your greediness. Increase.
So actually the philosophy is that you cannot satisfy your senses even though you give lifelong service to them, teṣāṁ karuṇā jātā na trapā na śāntiḥ. There is no śānti. They are not pleased, and they are not very much, I mean to say, merciful. They will never say: "Oh, you have served so much, now we retire." The same example like Gandhi. He gave so much service. The country did not say: "Mahatmaji, you please retire." Neither he retired. He wanted to give more service. The result was that he was killed.