To become servant of Kṛṣṇa, or God, is the supreme satisfaction. It is not that . . . that service is very valuable service. Sa-nātha-jīvitaḥ. Sa-nātha-jīvitaḥ means that service is not ended, only few minutes' notice. Just like government servant cannot be dismissed simply by saying: "Oh, don't come . . . come tomorrow. We don't want." So if government service cannot be terminated so whimsically, how Kṛṣṇa's service can be terminated whimsically? No. So as soon as you become servant of Kṛṣṇa you get full satisfaction. Sa-nātha-jīvitaḥ. Sa-nātha-jīvitaḥ means you will understand that "I have a master who is so full, who is so complete, who is so competent, who is so faithful and who is so nice, there is no injustice." Therefore, those who are mendicants, they are so much confident that, "Kṛṣṇa will provide for my subsistence. Kṛṣṇa will . . ." Abhayam. Therefore they are not fearful. Abhayaṁ sattva-samśuddhiḥ (BG 16.1).
In the Bhagavad-gītā you will find that . . . that one has to attain to that stage—no fearfulness. Fearfulness is due to our absorption in the material consciousness. Bhayaṁ dvitīyābhiniveśitaḥ syād īśad apetasya viparyayāsmṛtiḥ (SB 11.2.37). Because we have got a different consciousness, therefore we are fearful. If you are Kṛṣṇa conscious, then we can never be fearful. Nārāyaṇa-paraḥ sarve na kutaścana bibhyati (SB 6.17.28): "One who is in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he is not afraid of anything." Several times I have given you this example: especially Lord Jesus Christ, he was not fearful. When he was punished to be crucified, he never cared for it.
So these are . . . there are many examples in the history, in the scriptures, that those who are Kṛṣṇa conscious, or God conscious, they are not fearful. Prahlāda Mahārāja himself, he was five-years-old boy, and his father was teasing him, "Oh, you cannot become Kṛṣṇa conscious. Who is Kṛṣṇa?" Atheistic, "You cannot do that. It is my order."
He several times pleaded, "My dear father, why you are talking like this? You are also servant of Kṛṣṇa." So he never cared for it. Ultimately he wanted to kill his five-years-old boy, and Lord Nṛsiṁha-deva appeared. And this prayer is in connection with that. So Prahlāda Mahārāja is beginning his prayer:
- sarve hy amī vidhi-karās tava sattva-dhāmno
- brahmādayo vayam iveśa na codvijantaḥ
- kṣemāya bhutāya utātma-sukhāya cāsya
- vikrīḍitaṁ bhagavato rucirāvatāraiḥ
- (SB 7.9.13)
So he is praying, "My dear Lord, the . . . here the demigods are present." The demigods means Brahmā, Lord Śiva and others, Indra. "They all have come here because You have appeared. So they are not troublesome like my father. They are not troublesome. Because my father was a demon, so he was against always, always against God. But these demigods, they are not like my father. So You pacify Yourself. Now my father is killed. That business is finished. Now, these people, they will never create any trouble, so You become pacified."
That is the difference between the demons and demigods. There are two classes of living creatures always. Either in this planet or any planet within this universe, there are two classes of living creatures. One is called the demon, and the other is called the demigod. What is the difference?
The demigods are godly. They accept the existence of God, they obey the orders of God, they act in God consciousness, or Kṛṣṇa consciousness, whereas the demons, they don't believe in God, they defy God's regulations, and they want to become imitation God. So Hiraṇyakaśipu was that type of demon, whereas the Brahmā and others, they were not that.