When we chant Hare Krsna we pray: “Krsna, engage me in Your service.” To have an opportunity to serve for a devotee is the answer to his prayer. When the opportunity comes, we may not be able to recognize how Krsna gives it to us if we are not careful and if we have mixed motives. We may think while praying to Krsna: “Krsna, give me this service that I like.” That’s what Srila Bhaktisiddhanta is saying here. To chant the Lord’s name means to take His help but His help for what? If we consider Him our servant or expect Him to do our work, then there’s no question of living in the conception ‘I’m lower than the straw in the street’. In other words, if we are praying to Krsna ‘please give me this’, we are actually asking Krsna to become our servant.
May 15, 2011, Kishinev