Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 5


Sanskrit:

न वै तेऽजित भक्तानां ममाहमिति माधव ।त्वं तवेति च नानाधी: पशूनामिव वैकृती ॥ ५ ॥

ITRANS:

na vai te ’jita bhaktānāṁmamāham iti mādhavatvaṁ taveti ca nānā-dhīḥpaśūnām iva vaikṛtī

Translation:

O unconquerable Mādhava, even Your devotees make no distinctions of “I” and “mine,” “you” and “yours,” for this is the perverted mentality of animals.

Purport:

An ordinary person thinks, “I am so attractive, intelligent and wealthy that people should simply serve me and do what I want. Why should I obey anyone else?” This proud, separatist mentality is also found in animals who battle one another for supremacy. Such a mentality is conspicuously absent in the mind of an advanced devotee, and it is certainly absent in the sublime, omniscient mind of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.