Svāminī puts all the preparations on golden plates and covers them with sheets.
She has full faith that Tulasī and the other maidservants will feed Kṛṣṇa as if She Herself is doing it. mad vidhānām nija sakhīnām means ‘Your girlfriends, of whom I am one!’
The practicing devotee should also immerse himself in that rasa.
Śrī Narottama Ṭhākura sings: dehe nā koriho āsthā – “Don’t place your trust in the material body!”
Trust should be placed in the spiritual body. “I am Your maidservant!” – what a beautiful introduction!
Kṛṣṇa dāsa abhimāne ye ānanda-sindhu; koṭi brahma-sukha nahe tāra eka bindu
(C.C.)
“The bliss of brahman multiplied ten million times is not one drop compared to the ocean of bliss the devotee swims in when he considers himself to be Kṛṣṇa’s servant”.
And the self-identification as Rādhā’s maidservant is even more blissful than that! Rādhārāṇī considers the kiṅkarīs to be Her own:
“My Rūpa! My Tulasi! My maidservant!”
“O Svāmini! I don’t want anything else but to belong to Your group! Please take me by the hand and accept me as Your maidservant!” A little of this great aspiration should also arise within the hearts of the practising devotee.
Srila Ananta das Babaji
