Should God be Loved as a Master or a Son?

O Learned and Devoted Servants of God,

[Shri Durgaprasad asked: Paadanamaskaaram Swami, You told that one should keep Lord in place of children. Then only, love towards Lord becomes natural. Gopikaas showed exactly this type of love and served Lord like a family member. On otherhand, Lakshmana and Hanuman served Lord like slaves. It means they are always on alert mode. These two types of love appear to be quite opposite. How to understand this difference?' Your servant, - Durgaprasad]

Swami replied:- The parents are also slaves to their children in doing the service, which is really greater than the service done by a slave. The mother washes the anus of the child after excretion, which is generally hesitated by a slave. The master pays limited salary to the servants as per the quality and quantity of their service. The parents pay all their property to the issues after doing service to them and even if the issues don’t serve them! I don’t find much difference between these two types of devotion. The parents have blood relationship with issues and the masters do not have such blood relationship with servants. Of course, the parents do not have blood relationship with their adopted son. Even then, they serve and give all their earnings to the adopted son. The real service and sacrifice comes only with the stamp of issue, whether it is born or adopted. Hence, this is the highest bond and should be kept as goal treating God as adopted son, which is the actual meaning of the word Datta. God wants to become Datta (adopted son) so that at least a part of your real service and sacrifice will be done to Him so that you can be uplifted. But, the devotees are very very alert about the reality of this sacrifice and service due to terrible knowledge of economic and commerce! Hence, the devotees reverse this bond making Datta as adopted parents so that God will do service and sacrifice to them even if they are wrong! The word Datta means adopted son only and not adopted parents. There are ten types of sons called Aurasa, Krutrima, Kshetraja, Guudhotpanna, Datta etc. The devotion to the issues (Apatya Bhakti) is the highest type of devotion towards which, the devotee shall always try to proceed especially while doing service and sacrifice to God whatever may be the type of bond selected by the devotee. This issue devotion is the actual sugar material deciding the value in any selected bond, which is only an external doll form of sugar like swan, parrot, donkey etc. The weight of sugar decides the cost to be paid and not the form of the sugar doll. One Kg of sugar swans costs the same as one kg of sugar donkey!

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