rÄjÄ kahe, — Ämi tomÄra dÄsera anudÄsa
bhá¹›tyera bhá¹›tya kara, — ei mora ÄÅ›a

 rÄjÄ kahe - the King said; Ämi - I; tomÄra - Your; dÄsera anudÄsa - most obedient servant of Your servants; bhá¹›tyera bhá¹›tya - servant of the servants; kara - make (me); ei - this; mora ÄÅ›a - my desire.


Text

The King replied, “My Lord, I am the most obedient servant of Your servants. It is my ambition that You will accept me as the servant of Your servants.â€

Purport

The greatest achievement for a devotee is to become a servant of the servants of the Lord. Actually, no one should desire to become the direct servant of the Lord. That is not a very good idea. When PrahlÄda MahÄrÄja was offered a benediction by Ná¹›siá¹hadeva, PrahlÄda rejected all kinds of material benedictions, but he prayed to become the servant of the servants of the Lord. When Dhruva MahÄrÄja was offered a benediction by Kuvera, the treasurer of the demigods, Dhruva could have asked for unlimited material opulence, but he simply asked for the benediction of becoming the servant of the servants of the Lord. KholÄvecÄ ÅšrÄ«dhara was a very poor man, but when ÅšrÄ« Caitanya MahÄprabhu wanted to give him a benediction, he also prayed to the Lord to be allowed to remain a servant of the servants of the Lord. The conclusion is that being the servant of the servants of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the highest benediction one can desire.