| "So if we want to understand, if we want to know God, we have to become His devotee. Devotee means servant—not paid servant, but servant by affection. Just like, these boys, European boys, American boys and some of the Philippines boys, they are trying to serve me, but they are not paid servant; they are servant by affection. Just like father and mother becomes the servant of the sons. The son, the small child, passing stool, and the mother cleansing. That does not mean the mother has become sweeper. The mother is mother, but out of affection she is giving service. Similarly, when we give service to the Lord in affection, in love, then God reveals: ataḥ śrī-kṛṣṇa-nāmādi na bhaved grāhyam indriyaiḥ (CC Madhya 17.136)."
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