“Better be a slave within the superior energy than a master of an inferior one”.

Srila Bhakti Rakshak Sridhar Swami, the Godbrother of the founder of the ISKCON , Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada , was famous amongst the Gaudia Math ( a spiritual organisation) , for coming up with brilliant philosophical truths coined in attractive and thought provoking ways. The founder of the Gaudia Math Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja,  the spiritual teacher of both Srila Sridhar Swami and AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada,  very much appreciated his philosophical and scientific approach to the Vedas , and partly his way of putting trancendental truths into attractive phrases

What did he mean by the title of this piece ?

Loving exchanges is the purpose of life ,and it’s what everyone is looking for .

Appreciation and sharing life and consciousness in such a way that all” discord is harmonized in the absolute” is  another of Srila Sridhar Swamis sayings.

So , rather than attempting a life of  self-centred mastership of all we survey, with  exploitative calculated exchanges with others , in artificial pretence ,  that are  really only for our benefit , because an  individual tiny consciousness particle  is  unable to fully understand the  inner  needs , along with an  individual psychological yearnings  of others , the tiny individual is not equipped with the unlimited beauty or  capacity , and does not possess the blissful qualities of the originator of consciousness.  Divinity is the lone personality who can expand Himself and simultaneously and  perfectly reciprocate a limitless enthusiasm in spiritual love.

So better we offer to assist Divinity in His superior realm , than become a master of a flickering life , which is far inferior.


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