Serve the Supreme Being
Expressions researched:
"servants of the Supreme Being"
|"serve the Supreme Being"
|"service attitude toward the eternal Supreme Being"
|"service of the Supreme Being"
|"service of the Supreme Spiritual Being"
|"service to the Supreme Being"
Srimad-Bhagavatam
SB Canto 2
Akāmaḥ is one who has no material desire. A living being, naturally being the part and parcel of the supreme whole puruṣaṁ pūrṇam, has as his natural function to serve the Supreme Being, just as the parts and parcels of the body, or the limbs of the body, are naturally meant to serve the complete body. Desireless means, therefore, not to be inert like the stone, but to be conscious of one's actual position and thus desire satisfaction only from the Supreme Lord. Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī has explained this desirelessness as bhajanīya-parama-puruṣa-sukha-mātra-sva-sukhatvam in his Sandarbha. This means that one should feel happy only by experiencing the happiness of the Supreme Lord. This intuition of the living being is sometimes manifested even during the conditioned stage of a living being in the material world, and such intuition is expressed in the manner of altruism, philanthropy, socialism, communism, etc., by the undeveloped minds of less intelligent persons.
Page Title: | Serve the Supreme Being |
Compiler: | Matea, Lavanga Manjari |
Created: | 13 of Nov, 2009 |
Totals by Section: | BG=0, SB=3, CC=0, OB=1, Lec=1, Con=2, Let=0 |
No. of Quotes: | 7 |