httpv://youtu.be/bbxtUUg3E0A
video: Bangladesh Mridanga
“Whether in the material world or the spiritual world, everyone is a servant, but here people are under the impression that they are masters. The head of the family thinks, “I am the master of my wife and children.” But in fact he is serving each and every member of his family. The state executive officer thinks, “I am the king” or “I am the president”, but actually he is the servant of the citizens.
Servitude is his position, and unless he serves the citizens according to their expectations, he will be deposed or fail to win reelection.
In the material world everyone is trying to become master of all he surveys, and thus there is competition on every level–between self-acclaimed “Gods,” between heads of state, even between friends and family members. In this illusory competition to be master, everyone fails.
Mahatma Gandhi was respected as the father of India, but after all he was just a servant, and when one man didn’t like his service, Gandhi was killed. Similarly, President Kennedy was a very popular president, but somebody saw some discrepancy in his service, and he was also killed. No one is really the master here. Everyone is either a servant of maya (illusion) or a servant of God.”
Full Chapter:
A Second Chance, chapter 7
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