One's heart has to be genuinely humble. A sutra (or message-packed phrase) that I commonly use is “mood of humble service”. That mood of humble service is not circumstantially dictated, but is genuinely felt at the heart level. It means thinking, "I am a humble servant, the order-carrier of my spiritual master". Without that humility, what good is instruction? It will be misunderstood, misused, or will just bounce off like a ball hitting a wall. It will go somewhere else, and it won't be effective. The heart has to be in that mood of wishing to carry out the service.To receive the instructions, and to qualify to receive the instructions, there has to be the proper mood of service, namely a willingness in any circumstance to take a humble service position, a humble service mood, and to carry out whatever the instruction of the spiritual master is that the circumstance requires.From a lecture by HH Romapada Swami titled "Process of Hearing", delivered during Vyasa Puja Celebrations inChicago, Jan 22 201Source: http://www.romapadaswami.com/node/7584
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