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  padmavati mataji February 10, 2012 at 12:57pm
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  Gopal das February 9, 2012 at 11:35pm

  I simply love all the questions and answers put here by Mataji Padmavati Dasi.

  I get more understanding the more i read them, and i feel more humble and more respectful to all devotees here, and a million thanks to all the devotees who manage the day to day running of this great website for our benefit. Hare Krsna and  my pranams to all devotees.
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  Stefan Trofenenco February 9, 2012 at 6:48pm

  As souls we are equal, and we have different positions in the spiritual sky, why then respect have the same value for each other?

  Tanks Mataji for your answering! Hare Krishna!
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  Radika dasi February 9, 2012 at 5:07pm

  Hare Krishna Narayan Prabhu, Padmavati Dasi will give an answer about svarupa  in the Krishna Consciousness group.
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  narayan krishnan iyer February 8, 2012 at 7:42pm

  PAMHO....

  AS a Gowdia vaishnava sampradaya we do not follow the concept of svarupa as the sahajias follow. but any devotee who has served krishna in his previous life as a animal or insect is sure to attain human form in its next birth. is there any writings on our svarupa or level of our devotional spirit within our sampradaya?
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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.