Saturday, March 13, 2010

Service Attitude!

Verse 1.15.25-26 (Padma Mataji):

* O King, as in the ocean the bigger and stronger aquatics swallow up the smaller and weaker ones, so also the Supreme Personality of Godhead, to lighten the burden of the earth, has engaged the stronger Yadu to kill the weaker, and the bigger Yadu to kill the smaller.
* In the material world the struggle for existence and survival of the fittest are laws because in the material world there is disparity between conditioned souls due to everyone's desire to lord it over the material resources. This very mentality of lording it over the material nature is the root cause of conditioned life. And to give facility to such imitation lords, the illusory energy of the Lord has created a disparity between conditioned living beings by creating the stronger and the weaker in every species of life.
* In Kaliyuga, as we don't see this kind of varnashrama society any more, everyone is trying to lord it over every other person.
* There is a constant try by everyone to bring down others so as to go up ourselves.
* Fortunately, this is not seen in the spiritual world. Cause everyone exists there eternally. And no one there is seeking enjoyment for themselves, everyone is serving Krishna only.
* So here too, if we have Krishna in the center, then we can be happy too.
* But worst thing is if we have this going forward mentality in devotees. We should actually always try that other devotees should get more recognition than us. We should always give way for other devotees.
* Compassion should be practiced regularly.

* The mood should be there, give priority to devotees. Our behavior should be such that Krishna wants to see us, not that we want to see Him. We should do this at the cost of discomfort for other devotees.
* Where service attitude is present, Krishna bhakti and that temple prospers.

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