In the material platform, if you serve somebody, you will find tired, satiated. You won't like. But if you engage yourself in the service of Kṛṣṇa, you'll find yourself more energetic. You'll like to serve more and more. That is the test. If I feel tired, then that is material, and if I feel more encouraged, that means it is blessings of Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa-mādhurya . . . one is engaged in service of Kṛṣṇa not officially or to make show; he feels enlivened in rendering such transcendental service. Some of you must be feeling like that, I am sure; otherwise you cannot take so much responsibility, working all day, unless you feel. You see?
So that is the test. Kṛṣṇa-mādhurya. There is some transcendental ecstasy, feeling, in the service of the Lord. So in the beginning we may not relish that transcendental feeling, but as we go on, increasing, we'll feel it.
Kṛṣṇa-sevā kare, kṛṣṇa-rasa-āsvādana. This is called kṛṣṇa-rasa. Just like anything we do, there is some humor, there is some taste. Suppose a person writes poetry. In writing that poetry he feels some taste; therefore he writes. Some . . . somebody plays on flute. So everything . . . somebody drinks. So there is some particular taste. Similarly, transcendentally, you will have a taste for Kṛṣṇa's service. That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness, a taste of mellow, mellow, or, what is called, a humor. You'll like. You'll like to serve more and more. The more you serve, you'll like to serve more and more. That is transcendental service.
- ihāte dṛṣṭānta—yaiche daridrera ghare
- 'sarvajña' āsi' duḥkha dekhi' puchaye tāhāre
- (CC Madhya 20.127)
Now, Lord Caitanya is giving one example, that a astrologer has come to a poor man's house. The astrologer sees that, "This man is living very niggardly life, wretched life, but he should not have done like that. His horoscope says that he should be a rich man. His palmistry says that he should be a rich man."
- ihāte dṛṣṭānta-yaiche daridrera ghare
- 'sarvajña' āsi' duḥkha dekhi' puchaye tāhāre
- (CC Madhya 20.127)
So the astrologer asks him, "Oh, I see you have got some good symptoms in your horoscope, in your palm. Oh, why you are suffering? Why you are suffering?" So:
- 'tumi kene duḥkhī, tomāra āche pitṛ-dhana
- tomāre nā kahila, anyatra chāḍila jīvana'
- (CC Madhya 20.128)
"I see that you have got your paternal property hidden somewhere, hidden somewhere. You have got some money left by your father, but it is hidden somewhere. You have to find out. It is hidden somewhere."