View source for Servant is not actually serving the master; it is serving the money which the master gives him. As soon as the payment will be stopped, there will be no more service

<div id="compilation">
<div id="facts">
{{terms|"Servant is not actually serving the master; it is serving the money which the master gives him. As soon as the payment will be stopped, there will be no more service"}}
{{notes|}}
{{compiler|Nabakumar}}
{{complete|ALL}}
{{first|2021-09-11T00:30:52Z}}
{{last|2021-09-11T00:30:52Z}}
{{totals_by_section|BG=0|SB=0|CC=0|OB=0|Lec=1|Con=0|Let=0}}
{{total|1}}
{{toc right}}
[[Category:Servant]]
[[Category:Is Not]]
[[Category:Not Actually]]
[[Category:Master]]
[[Category:Serving Money]]
[[Category:Which]]
[[Category:Giving Money]]
[[Category:As Soon As]]
[[Category:Payment]]
[[Category:Will Be]]
[[Category:Stop]]
[[Category:There Will Be No]]
[[Category:No More]]
[[Category:Prabhupada Speaks - Lectures, 1966 - 1977]]
[[Category:Prabhupada Speaks - Lectures, 1972]]
[[Category:Prabhupada Speaks - Lectures, Nectar of Devotion]]
[[Category:Prabhupada Speaks - in India, Vrndavana]]
</div>
<div id="section">
<h2>Lectures</h2>
</div>
<div id="sub_section">
<h3>Nectar of Devotion Lectures</h3>
</div>
<div class="quote">
<div class="quote_heading">
It is compared with the mirage. Just like the desert, there is reflection of water. Actually there is no water. Similarly, all this perverted reflection of śānta rasa, dāsya rasa, sākhya rasa, this is just like mirage. It is simply a reflection. It has no actual fact. Here nobody's friend, nobody's servant, nobody's parent, nobody's lover. It is simply a bondage of some self-interest. The servant is not actually serving the master; it is serving the money which the master gives him. As soon as the payment will be stopped, there will be no more service.
</div>


<mp3player>https://vanipedia.s3.amazonaws.com/clip/721109ND-VRNDAVAN_clip0.mp3</mp3player>
<div class="quote_link">
[[Vanisource:721109 - Lecture NOD - Vrndavana|721109 - Lecture NOD - Vrndavana]]
</div>
<div class="text">
The material variety is the perverted reflection of the spiritual variety. As it is described in the Bhagavad-gītā, Fifteenth Chapter: ūrdhva-mūlam adhah-śākham ([[Vanisource:BG 15.1 (1972)|BG 15.1]]). This tree, this material world compared with a aśvattha vṛkṣa. The root is up, upstairs, upwards, and the branches and leaves are down, downwards. Why? Because it is reflection, chāyā, or māyā. The real tree is in the Vaikuṇṭha planet or in the spiritual world. It is only simply a reflection. Just like a tree standing on the bank of reservoir of water, on the bank of a lake or a river, you'll see the tree is reflected downwards.

So this description in the Fifteenth Chapter, of this material world, downwards . . . Ūrdhva-mūlam adhah-śākha means this is only a perverted reflection of the spiritual world. The real tree is in the spiritual world. The other day . . . who was asking about this question? Some of our . . .? Ūrdhva-mūlam adhah-śākha? Who was asking me? Eh? Oh. Gopāla. He's not here. All right.

So adhah-śākha ūrdhva-mūlam. This means this material . . . all the varieties, here is also representation of śānta rasa, dāsya rasa, sākhya rasa, mādhurya rasa, vātsalya rasa. Here is also the reflection. We see, just like we are sitting on this ground underneath the tree. This is the . . . the earth is serving us in śānta rasa. Similarly, we have got our servants. That is dāsya rasa. We have got our friends. That is sākhya rasa. We have got our parents. That is vātsalya rasa. And we have got our lovers also. That is mādhurya rasa. But it is only reflection.

It is compared with the mirage. Just like the desert, there is reflection of water. Actually there is no water. Similarly, all this perverted reflection of śānta rasa, dāsya rasa, sākhya rasa, this is just like mirage. It is simply a reflection. It has no actual fact. Here nobody's friend, nobody's servant, nobody's parent, nobody's lover. It is simply a bondage of some self-interest. The servant is not actually serving the master; it is serving the money which the master gives him. As soon as the payment will be stopped, there will be no more service.

Therefore it is a perverted reflection of that service attitude in the Vaikuṇṭha planet. And similarly we have seen there is . . . there was high-court cases between mother and the sons, and they spent lots of money. Still they could not come into conclusion. The motherly affection, the paternal affection, just simply a shadow. It appears to be true, because the truth is elsewhere. Just like in the desert it appears there is a great, vast mass of water, but actually there is no water. But that does not mean there is no water. The impression of water is there because there is actually water somewhere.

Similarly, we are trying to taste the five rasas in this material world. Because actually these rasas are there in the spiritual world. This is only reflection. Ūrdhva-mūlam adhah-śākham ([[Vanisource:BG 15.1 (1972)|BG 15.1]]). And because in the spiritual world it is a fact, we are taking these false things as fact, these temporary things as fact. Actually it is not fact.
</div>
</div>
</div>