choti choti magar moti batein
Praween
Everyone is looking for shelter. There are two primary aspirations – pleasure and shelter. People want both physical and emotional shelter. Physical shelter refers to the maintenance of life and the facilities for sense gratification. Emotional shelter is our false ego with its want to be loved. A conditioned soul wants to be respected and adored which is simply a distorted way of trying to find love.
The false ego just distorts it into the idea that the experience of love will come through adoration and respect. To the degree we are not experiencing real love we may need those things. Humility is the natural symptom of one who loves God. If you love God and feel His love, you just don’t need any of those things. Humility is not just the process but the symptom of one who has obtained the goal of life. We only need those external shows of respect and adoration because of an emptiness within. If one is finding fulfillment, whether one is praised or blamed, it really doesn’t matter because we are experiencing God’s love.
Often times we take shelter of God in the time of need. But we also should take shelter of the beauty and sweetness of God. Therefore, Srila Prabhupada balanced his books so nicely by describing the sweet eternal pastimes of the Lord and the loving reciprocation of the Lord’s devotees but always along with truth of the suffering and miseries of material existence.
PRAWEEN PRAKASH
5th year UG student
Electrical Engineering department
IIT KGP