Śrī Śrīla Shyām Dās Bābā Mahārāj
Once, a brāhmacārī was admitted to a hospital. When treatment was going on, a nurse approached him to give him some injection as per the order of the doctor concerned, but out of angry attitude that brāhmacārī provided a kick on her chest. But since she was not doing anything for her own, so she had to suffer that kick with selfless serving mood. Her duty was just to carry out the order of the doctor. Similarly those great exalted Vaiṣṇavas they also tolerate all the kicks in the form of disrespect or criticism etc. from all those bonded jīvas (even maybe they are in the uniform of sadhu). They are always ready to provide a kick on the chest of Guru-Vaishnava. As soon as the divine instructions of Guru-Vaishnava going to destroy their false ego, then they just cannot bear it, but still a Vaiṣṇava can never leave his jīve dayā sevā. Guru-Vaiṣṇavas coming in this material world by the order of the Supreme Lord. They are not coming to this material world to collect lābha-pūjā-pratiṣṭhā or kanaka-kāminī. They are always doing sevā under the strict guidance of Guru-Vaiṣṇava. Their divine mission is never dependent upon the flickering approval of those ignorant people.
