By Bhurijana Dasa
If the desire to serve Krishna is present, we will always be able to do some service, even if it is of a different kind. We always have something to offer others, regardless of the externals of our circumstances. If you wish to always appear strong or successful you lose the ability for transparency. By attempting success through the management of appearances, you lose freedom to be honest, you are unable to express needs, you must cover up your mistakes, you need to have all the answers, and you lose the freedom to be yourself. Be brutally honest. What wants and needs are present? Our motives may be admirable, pure, and worthy of action. At times they are self-serving, full of avoidance, and tainted by fear, impatience, envy, pride, or the desire to place everything under our control. What is compelling me to act? What pushes me to change the circumstances from what they currently are? Is Krishna’s purpose behind the desire to act? What purpose? Am I willing to be Krishna’s instrument with no strings attached?