Duty of the master

Expressions researched:
"duty of the master" |"duty of his friend"

SB Canto 4

SB 4.26.22, Translation: My dear slender maiden, when a master chastises his servant, the servant should accept this as great mercy. One who becomes angry must be very foolish not to know that such is the duty of his friend.

SB Canto 8

SB 8.7.38, Translation: It is my duty to give protection and safety to all living entities struggling for existence. Certainly it is the duty of the master to protect his suffering dependents.

Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures

But when we are going to the teacher, teacher is showing from the 1, 2, 3, 4, teacher is showing, but not to what you can tell him to just you. Teacher is telling, teacher is showing us

Lecture on BG 4.1 -- Delhi, November 10, 1971:

Guest (2): Excuse me. Your honor, sir, what is the duty of the perfect master?

Prabhupada: To teach the rascals (laughter). The students are all rascals, and the teacher's duty, to educate him properly, that is.

Guest (2): Is not the perfect master, when come to the Earth, prophet, he showed to the God?

Prabhupada: You were asking what is the duty of the master and teacher.

Guest (2): Yes.

Prabhupada: The teacher's duty is to make right the rascals, that's all.

Guest (2): When is the perfect mast...

Prabhupada: So, first of all this is the duty of the teacher. So, therefore, a disciple should consider himself, that he's a rascal, and then he goes to a teacher. If he thinks himself, that he is quite all right, he does not require a teacher.

Guest (2): But when we are going to the teacher, teacher is showing from the 1, 2, 3, 4, teacher is showing, but not to what you can tell him to just you. Teacher is telling, teacher is showing us. So the perfect master, when the Lord Krsna...

Prabhupada: But how do you know the perfect master, if you are a student?

Guest (2): When the Lord Krsna was on the Earth...

Prabhupada: First of all you answer me, that if you are a student, how you can know who is perfect teacher? (laughter) So you do not know what is your position. If you are teacher, if you are a student, then you should go to the teacher submissively, not that strong attitude.

Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

Just like you have seen that the dog and the master. The master is so friendly to the dog out of love. It is a dog, but when it is passing stool, he's waiting. Why? Is the duty of the master to wait because the dog is passing stool? No. Out of love

Lecture on SB 1.8.19 -- Mayapura, September 29, 1974: So unless we become very serious to understand Krsna, it is very, very difficult to understand Krsna. Maya-javanikacchannam. On the one side, Kunti says, antar bahir avasthitam: "Krsna, You are within..." Isvarah sarva-bhutanam hrd-dese [Bg. 18.61]. Krsna is not far away. Krsna is always with you. He, He's so friendly that just like two birds... It is said in the Upanisads: the one bird is eating the fruit of the tree; another bird is simply guiding and seeing. Because this material world, living entity wanted to enjoy. Just like you have seen that the dog and the master. The master is so friendly to the dog out of love. It is a dog, but when it is passing stool, he's waiting. Why? Is the duty of the master to wait because the dog is passing stool? No. Out of love. Out of love. We can see from practical example. Similarly... The master may be a great millionaire, but still, he loves the dog so much that on the morning walk he takes his dog and the dog is passing urine... What, what business dog has got? To pass urine and stool and go this way and that way. But the master is attending. Similarly, God, or Krsna, is so affectionate that we have come here in this material world simply to pass stool and urine, still He's attending. Still, He's attending. Just imagine what merciful is Krsna.