Become a SEVAKA, not SEVAYA!

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Shabdahari Das

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Feb 17, 2009, 12:03:29 AM2/17/09
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Become a SEVAKA, not SEVAYA!


Jayapataka: Brahmacaris don't like to take the instructions from the elder devotees, and then they want to take sannyasa, so they think they can be independent and give orders them self and not listen.

Prabhupada: Therefore not to be given all of a sudden. [break]...to become sevaka. Everyone wants to become sevya.

Hrdayananda: Served.

Prabhupada: Yes. And, ultimately, God. Se pasha pasha pasha bo... (?) When everything failure, then to become God.

Jayapataka: That's why Lord Caitanya said that "I am not a sannyasi or a..."

Prabhupada: Yes. Gopi-bhartuh pada-kamalayor dasa...

Yasodanandana: Nahah vipro na ca nara-patir napi vaisyo...

Prabhupada: Bhrtyasya-bhrtya, servant of the servant [Cc. Madhya 13.80]. Everyone, if he wants to become a master, that is materialism.

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