Srila Prabhupada: “become master, then you go to hell”
Audio for this lecture: https://prabhupadavani.org/transcriptions/750328ccmay/compiled by Balarama dasa
Excerpt:
“…This is paramparā system. Therefore Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura says,ei chay gosāi jār-tār mui dās
tā-sabāra pada-reṇu mora pañca-grās
This is paramparā system. You cannot jump over. You must go through the paramparā system. You have to approach through your spiritual master to the Gosvāmīs, and through the Gosvāmīs you will have to approach Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, and through Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu you have to approach Kṛṣṇa. This is the way. Therefore Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura said, ei chay gosāi jār-tār mui dās.
We are servant of servant. That is Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s instruction = gopī-bhartuḥ pada-kamalayor dāsa-dāsānudāsaḥ [Cc. Madhya 13.80]. The more you become servant of the servant, the more you are perfect. And if you all of a sudden want to become master, then you go to hell. That’s all. Don’t do that. This is the teaching of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. If you go through the servant, servant, servant, then you are advanced. And if you think that you have now become master, then you are going to hell. This is the process. Dāsa-dāsānudāsaḥ. Caitanya Mahāprabhu said. So servant, servant, servant, a hundred times servant now, that means he is advanced. He is advanced. And one who is becoming directly master, then he is in the hell..”
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 1.4
Māyāpur, March 28, 1975