Prabhupāda: Why don't you touch Bhagavad-gītā? Yes. Do you think Aurobindo is greater than Kṛṣṇa?
Guest (1): He says that . . .
Prabhupāda: He says he is greater than Kṛṣṇa?
Guest (1): Yes.
Prabhupāda: Then he's a nonsense, if anyone says like that.
Guest (1): He says that . . .
Prabhupāda: What he has done greater than Kṛṣṇa? Why do you accept like that? What he has done greater than Kṛṣṇa?
Guest (1): He says, one who goes in . . .
Prabhupāda: Don't say like that, unauthorized, "He is greater than Kṛṣṇa." Kṛṣṇa says, mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat kiñcid asti dhanañjaya (BG 7.7). And you say he's greater than Kṛṣṇa. Anyone can say like that, "I am greater than Kṛṣṇa." So why do you accept like that, unless you see practically that he has done greater than Kṛṣṇa? Huh?
Guest (1): That is a . . . and he said, I said . . . it can be said the Aurobindo was . . . (indistinct)
Prabhupāda: No, no. Suppose if I say: "I am greater than the President of the United States," will you accept?
Guest (1): Sad-dharma (Hindi). How he says sarva-dharmān parityajya (BG 18.66)?
Prabhupāda: Because you have created so many rascal dharma; therefore, you have to give it up.
Guest (1): The position of dharma is dharati, sa dharma.
Prabhupāda: Yes. And what is that dhārayet? What is your position? You are servant. You cannot give up your servitude. All of you, you have assembled here, can you say you are master? You are all servant. Is anyone that you are the master, supreme master? Who is a master? You are all servants, but you are servant of māyā. That's all. You are servant of your senses. Your senses dictate something, and you are obliged to abide by that.
So you have to give up this service attitude of māyā and you have to take the real servitude of Kṛṣṇa. That is your salvation. Constitutionally, you are servant, nothing but servant. Artificially you are claiming that, "I am master." Nobody's master. You are servant. Caitanya Mahāprabhu says, jīvera svarūpa haya nitya kṛṣṇa dāsa (CC. Madhya 20.108-109). That is the real identity of jīva. He's eternal servant of Kṛṣṇa.
So as soon as you accept that position, you are liberated. That is your natural position. You are constitutionally a servant. Artificially, you are thinking, "I am master." That is māyā.
- kṛṣṇa bhuliya jīva bhoga vāñchā kare
- pāsate māyā tare japatīyā dhare
- (Prema-vivarta)
Why you are . . . we have come in contact with māyā? Because artificially we're thinking that, "I am the Lord." Everyone is trying to be lord here in this material world. And when he's frustrated, he says, "Oh, it is false."
Nobody is master. Everyone is servant. Try to understand this fact. Who is not a servant here? Is anyone that, "I am not servant, anyone's servant"? Everyone is servant. If anyone has nothing to serve, he keeps a dog and cat and becomes a servant of the dog and cat. I have seen in America.