We are the object and Krishna is the subject

Krishna is the source of everything that exists and everything is His energies in all material and all spiritual worlds. The material conception of life is when we put our self in the center, we want to see and we want to enjoy what we see. This whole material existence or so many objects, wherever we look we are trying to enjoy what we see, what we taste, what we hear, smell, think, feel through all of our senses. “bhoktäram yajya-tapasäm sarva-loka-mahesvaram”- Krishna is the proprietor of everything that exists and ultimately Krishna is the supreme enjoyer. For a devotee wherever we look, we are thinking how Krishna can enjoy, this is Krishna’s property, this is Krishna’s person, meant for Krishna’s enjoyment, He is in the center, how could I facilitate? How could I serve him?
Generally when you see another person or another human being, the tendency is we want to enjoy them. But in bhakti we see that the other person is the object of Krishna’s enjoyment. I am also the object of Krishna’s enjoyment. So that how to serve in such a way to utilize everything for Krishna’s enjoyment. Even when we come to the temple to see the deity, Srila Bhakti Siddhant Saraswati Thakur and Srila Prabhupada would quote him, “Do not try to see Krishna but try to behave, act, and live in such a way that Krishna is very pleased to see you”. We are the object and Krishna is the subject. When we accept this state of consciousness then the soul is liberated from the false ego which is under the conception that I am the enjoyer, the doer, the proprietor, and the controller.

Lecture By H H Radhanath Swami Maharaj