Category:Everyone is Trying to Become the Master
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda identifies the desire to be the master as the root cause of the material struggle for existence. In the material world, everyone—from the tiny ant to Lord Brahmā—is driven by the ambition to control and predominate. This mentality manifests in all spheres: individual, social, national, and religious. However, this attempt is fundamentally flawed because the living entity is constitutionally a servant (prakṛti), not the master (puruṣa). By trying to become the master, one inevitably becomes a servant of their senses. The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement counters this "material disease" by teaching devotees to address each other as "Prabhu" (master) and to cultivate the realization that true happiness lies in eternal servitude to Kṛṣṇa.
- The Universal Disease: The drive to dominate is present everywhere, even in animal societies.
- Struggle for Existence: This competition for mastership creates constant conflict and anxiety.
- Constitutional Position: We are eternally servants; trying to be the master is an artificial imposition.
- The Result: Those who refuse to serve Kṛṣṇa are forced to serve their senses and māyā.
- The Cure: Realizing "I am not master, I am servant" and treating others as masters (Prabhu).
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Pages in category "Everyone is Trying to Become the Master"
The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
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- Everyone is trying to become master. Even in the cats' and dogs' society you will find one dog is trying to predominate by barking that "I am better than you." So this is called struggle for existence
- Everyone is trying to become the master. Nobody is trying to become a servant. Ask anyone that "Why you are working so hard?" - No, I shall get so much money, I shall become very wealthy
- Everyone, individual to individual, nation to nation, society to society, religion to religion, so-called religion - everyone is trying to become the master
- Everywhere, everyone is trying to become master. It doesn't matter it is a small circle or big circle. This is material disease
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- He is given the chance, "All right, go to the material world and become a master." But that is a falldown. So he's trying struggle for existence, and everyone is trying to become master
- Here everyone is trying to become master, and everyone wants to avoid service. But by the nature's law, one has to become servant and render service, going on
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- Never try to become the purusa or the master. That is very dangerous. Always remain prakrti. Prakrti means to be controlled or controlled, and purusa means the controller
- Nobody wants to surrender. He wants to compete. Individually, person to person, family to family, nation to nation, everyone is trying to become the master. Where is the question of surrendering?
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- They (the people) say the Vaisnava religion is slave mentality. They say. They do not know that it is success of life to become slave of Krsna. They do not know. Who has become happy trying to become master
- This is the material world. Everyone is trying to become master through various devices, although everyone is servant of his senses
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- We are not master; still, we are trying to become master. The Mayavada philosophy, they also undergo severe type of austerities, penances, but what is the idea? The idea is that "I shall become one with God." Same mistake
- We are trying for something which we are not. We know this word, "struggle for existence," "survival of the fittest." So this is struggle. We are not master; still, we are trying to become master
- We teach our men to address his fellow man as prabhu, "You are master, I am servant." In the material world, everyone is trying to become master; nobody is trying to become servant
- We teach to address amongst the devotees, "Prabhu," "Prabhu," "Such and such Prabhu." This should not be simply spoken by the lips; it should be realized. Everyone should think other devotee as his prabhu, master, not he should try to become master
- Why he (Brahma) is in this material world? Because he has got some desire that "I shall be the master of a brahmanda." Just like everyone is trying to become the master of his house or the society or the community or the country