In the land of love ,Srila BR Sridhar Swami says , we are to consider ourselves the least ,,even the soil is worshipable, our Bhakti our devotion is the least compared to others Bhakti, that consciousness of the negative may call upon the positive Bhakti devi to infuse one’s heart .This type of humility is to be practised in the here and now both within meditations and within the current society following the advice and instructions of Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Srila BR Sridhar Swami would say better be a slave in a superior energy than a master of an inferior one.
AC Bhaktivedanta Swami:” So Kṛṣṇa, the supreme authority, Supreme Personality of Godhead, He is speaking the process of acquiring knowledge, jñānam. So, the first beginning of knowledge is humility. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu has taught,
tṛṇād api sunīcena
taror api sahiṣṇunā
amāninā mānadena
kīrtanīyaḥ sadā hariḥ
[Cc. Ādi 17.31]
Anyone… This humbleness and humility is taught everywhere. Without being gentle, humble, how one can be a man of knowledge? But at the present moment the humility is forgotten. Everyone is proud unnecessarily. Although he’s nothing, he’s proud, so much so that sometimes a rascal says that “I am God.” This is the modern civilization. He’s so puffed-up, so proud, that one claims to become God, what to speak of other things. No. The first thing is that one must be very humble.
This is the process of Vedic civilization. “
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