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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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This is the Vaiṣṇava mentality. Here Prahlāda Mahārāja says that, "I am nīca. I am fallen. I am the lowest. I have no good qualifications, no good parentage, nothing of this sort. Then how can I serve Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme? But the only hope is that, that whatever I do, that is good for me." So even if I do a little, that little is good for me.
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[[Vanisource:690319 - Lecture SB 07.09.08-11 - Hawaii|690319 - Lecture SB 07.09.08-11 - Hawaii]]
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That is the temperament of a Vaiṣṇava. Vaiṣṇava never thinks, "Oh, I am this, I am that." Prahlāda Mahārāja, just see how much qualified he is, but he is thinking himself nīca. Nīca means the most downtrodden, the most fallen. Just like Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura, he is singing:

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:patita-pāvana-hetu tava avatāra
:mo sama patita prabhu nā pāibe āra 
:(Prārthanā 39)
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"My dear Lord Caitanya, You have appeared to deliver the fallen souls, but please note that You will find no degraded fallen souls more than me. I am the last. If You are finding out the fallen souls, my number is the last. So therefore kindly accept me. And then from the opposite side, because You have come to claim the fallen souls, thus from the opposite side my number is first. Please accept me."

So this is the Vaiṣṇava mentality. Here Prahlāda Mahārāja says that, "I am nīca. I am fallen. I am the lowest. I have no good qualifications, no good parentage, nothing of this sort. Then how can I serve Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme? But the only hope is that, that whatever I do, that is good for me." So even if I do a little, that little is good for me.

There is no question of disappointment. He doesn’t require any service from me. But whatever little service I can render, that is for my good. So there is no question of loss. Tasmad evam bhagavan bhakti eva tucchyati, tasmād ahaṁ nīco ’pi vigata viklava. (Śrīdhara Svāmī commentary). "Therefore I should not hesitate."

Nobody should hesitate. Prahlāda Mahārāja is giving us this assurance, that to serve Kṛṣṇa, there is no question of hesitation. There is no question that I am lower, I am uneducated, I am born of this family or that family, or I am black or white or this or that. There is no question of disqualification. In whatever position you are, you can render service to Kṛṣṇa.
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