Can we use the word “our spiritual glory” when actually we are meant to be humble servants in spiritual life?
Hare Krishna question in your Gita dailies you often refer to the concept of regaining our spiritual glory in spiritual life we are meant to become humble and realize that we are insignificant servants of God so is it right to use the word spiritual glory? answer yes definitely because our original position as parts of Krishna is glorious what can be more glorious than the fact that we are the beloved children the very cherished parts and parcels of the all-attractive supreme personality of Godhead that is glorious for a Sri Prabhupada would often give the example of a millionaire's son returning back to the millionaire the prodigal son returning back to the father is also a story in the Bible so actually our original position is glorious now that glory is not in the egoistic sense in the sense that we don't go around parading our glory to everyone and it is not that everybody is praising us as some egotists or egoists may hope in this world but actually as compared to whatever we are right now or whatever we can become eventually by struggles in this world whatever glory we may achieve the glory of returning back to Krishna is far far greater because it is eternal eternally we'll belong to a family where we'll be loved and cared and cherished and not just by anybody but by the supreme lord himself and those who love him so it's only when we understand that actually our original spiritual position is glorious then we will become free from the infatuation to attain glory in this world as long as we think that oh in spiritual life I'll become insignificant I'll just become one among billions and billions of devotees of Krishna and no one will notice me and I'll be I'll just be lost as long as we don't realize that our spiritual position is glorious our urge for glory will make us seek that glory in this world and when we seek glory in this world the result will be we'll be distracted from devotional service to Krishna so now the process for returning back to the spiritual world is to become humble but still we are also in that same shikshashtakam where Shaitan Mahaprabhu talks about such humility he also tells the lord my dear lord I want to love you I want to serve you now we could say that itself is a matter of pride you know who is you know how can a tiny soul desire to serve the lord but that is our eternal position so to desire to go back to the lord to be a part of his leela we could call that itself as a proud desire but that's not proud because that's our original position and it is a glorious position so what Krishna is offering us when we return back to him is truly glorious although it is not glorious in an egoistic sense but it is glorious that the supreme lord is offering us his love and his abode for living eternally and to the extent we recognize that glory to that extent we will become free from the desires for glory in this world thank you.