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We say that, that God is one, and every one of us, we are all servant of God. So let us engage in our original position as servant of God. This is our teaching

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"that God is one, and every one of us, we are all servant of God. So let us engage in our original position as servant of God. This is our teaching"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1975 Conversations and Morning Walks

The way is one. God is one, and we all living entities, we are dependent on God's mercy. Therefore we are servant. Everyone is servant. We say that, that God is one, and every one of us, we are all servant of God. So let us engage in our original position as servant of God. This is our teaching.


Room Conversation with Reporter -- March 9, 1975, London:

Prabhupāda: Everyone is servant of Kṛṣṇa.

Reporter: Are you saying . . .

Prabhupāda: Everyone. You are also servant of Kṛṣṇa. Are you not servant of Kṛṣṇa? Are you master? You are not servant of anyone? Are you? You have come as press representative. You are servant of the press. So you are not master.

Reporter: Uh-huh. But I wanted to ask about other spiritual groups in this country. . .

Prabhupāda: So any spiritual . . . if he is actually belongs to the spiritual understanding, then he must admit that he is servant of God.

Reporter: Servant of God.

Prabhupāda: That is real spiritual understanding.

Reporter: But many different groups give the . . .

Prabhupāda: They are not . . . they have no spiritual understanding. Anyone who says something else beyond this understanding, that every living entity is servant of God, if he says something else, he does not know what is spiritual life.

Reporter: But there seem to be a lot of groups that are saying that, but teaching a different way to . . .

Prabhupāda: Different way . . . there cannot be dif . . . the way is one. God is one, and we all living entities, we are dependent on God's mercy. Therefore we are servant. Everyone is servant. We say that, that God is one, and every one of us, we are all servant of God. So let us engage in our original position as servant of God. This is our teaching.

Reporter: Do you feel that. . . in other groups also there are sort of teachers or masters or whatever they call them. Do you feel that there can be more than . . .

Prabhupāda: They are wasting time simply and cheating others. That's all.

Reporter: They are wasting time.

Prabhupāda: Yes. Because they do not understand what is their position, therefore their teaching is simply waste of time. This is the position: that God is great, and we are all dependent on God. Who will deny this? This is the original principle. Now, in one religious system it may be taught in a little different way. In another religious system it may be . . . but if there is no such sense that, "God is the supreme, and we are all subordinate servant . . ." This should be the basic idea.

Page Title:We say that, that God is one, and every one of us, we are all servant of God. So let us engage in our original position as servant of God. This is our teaching
Compiler:Bhaktavasagovinda
Created:20 of Nov, 2011
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
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