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  padmavati mataji February 8, 2012 at 11:59am
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  Stefan Trofenenco February 6, 2012 at 3:19pm

  BHAGAVAN and individuals souls are SVARAT,in transcendental loving service, the servitor is as free as the Lord. The Lord is independent and the soul is independent,the transcendental loving service is due to spontaneous love, not forced service.

  Thank's Mata ji, for openning my eyes!
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  padmavati mataji February 6, 2012 at 12:01pm
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  padmavati mataji February 6, 2012 at 12:00pm

  Śrīla Śrīdhara Svāmī has brilliantly summarized all these meanings

   of the word dhāma by giving the Sanskrit term svarūpa as a synonym.

   The word svarūpa means"one's own form or shape" and

   also "one's own condition, character or nature." Since Lord Kṛṣṇa,

   being pure spirit, is nondifferent from His body, there is absolutely

   no difference between the Lord and His visible form. By contrast,

   in this material world we conditioned souls are all distinctly

   different from our bodies, whether those bodies be male, female,

   black, white or whatever. All of us are eternal souls,

  different from our temporary, flimsy bodies.
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  padmavati mataji February 6, 2012 at 11:59am

  Transcendental loving service is never to be compared

   to the forced service of the material world. In the

   material world, even if one is under the conception

   that he is no one's servant, he is still the servant

   of his senses, under the dictation of the material modes.
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  padmavati mataji February 6, 2012 at 11:59am

  Factually no one is master here in the material world,

   and therefore the servants of the senses have a very

   bad experience of servitude. They shudder at the

   thought of service because they have no knowledge 

  of the transcendental position. In transcendental

   loving service, the servitor is as free as the Lord. 
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  padmavati mataji February 6, 2012 at 11:58am

  The Lord is svarat  or fully independent, and the servant

   is also fully independent, or svarat, in the spiritual

   atmosphere because there is no forced service. 

  There the transcendental loving service is due to

   spontaneous love.
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  padmavati mataji February 6, 2012 at 11:57am

  A reflected glimpse of such service is experienced

   in the service of the mother unto the son, the

   friend's service unto the friend, or the wife's

   service unto the husband. These reflections of service

   by friends, parents or wives are not forced, but are

   due only to love.
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  padmavati mataji February 6, 2012 at 11:57am

  Here in this material world, however,

   the loving service is only a reflection. The real service,

   or service in svarupa, is present in the transcendental 

  world, in association with the Lord. The very same

   service in transcendental love can be practiced

   in devotion here.
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  narayan krishnan iyer February 4, 2012 at 4:21pm

  PAMHO...

  What is the meaning of Srila Prabhupada mentioning on page no. 420 0f Canto 3 part 1 of Shrimad Bhagavadam that the Bhagavan is svarat and the individual soul is also svarat. in my feeble mind understanding that in the spiritual world we as the individual is fully indipendent to carryout our devotional service to sri gopinath or sri rasbihari or even Radha Radhadomodhar any enlivining comments from other acharyas pls...

  Narayan krishnan