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Prabhupada:
Even in the stool, the worms in the stool, he's also thinking "I
have got so much stool to eat." This same mastership. "I am the
monarch of all I survey. I have got so much stool." And you just
take the worm from the stool, put it here: "No, no, no, here is
my enjoyment." This mastership mentality is there in Brahma, and
the mastership mentality is there in the worm of the stool. This
mentality you have to give up. Then you become liberated. That
is liberation. The bondage is that mastership mentality. He's
servant, but he's thinking falsely that he's master. Just like
your President Nixon. He thought that "Now I have become master
of America, I'm president." He forgot that he's servant. As soon
as the people wanted, dragged him down. That he forgot, that
"I'm servant of the people." So everyone is servant, but falsely
thinking "I'm master." That is material disease. The best thing
is that if I have to remain servant, why not become servant of
Krsna? That's all. That is perfection. That is perfect life.
Even by becoming a false master of the whole American country, I
was not happy, I am now dragged down as a common man, Mr. Nixon,
then what is the use of becoming master? It is all false. Let me
become servant of Krsna; then it is perfect. Instead of becoming
a false master of the American country, let me be a real servant
of Krsna. That is liberty, liberated. Because any stage of my
life, to become master is false. That is not possible. He has to
be convinced that he cannot be master. Your constitution is to
remain servant. If you prefer to remain servant of a big
populace in America... But you are servant; don't think you are
master. That is sane. And soon as you commit mistake as master,
immediately he's in trouble. Is it not? That's it. You give up
this false notion that "I am master." Then your all welfare is
there. We teach that ask a Godbrother, "Prabhu." Don't become
master, but become servant. Prabhu means "my lord." So everyone,
if you address each other "prabhu," that mastership mentality
will be less. If you remember that "I am not master. I am
servant."
[S.P.
Garden Conversation, June 22, 1976, New Vrindaban]
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