If we see devotees’ love for us as Krishna’s love coming through them are we not depersonalizing devotees?

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Okay? I am not talking about reducing our relationship or reducing the other person. I am talking about not reducing ourselves based on a relationship.
That means that when if a person is loving, yes, that person cares for him. If there is a senior devotee, there is a friend who goes out of the way to help us, then we do. We don’t neglect that.
Prabhupada came on Jagaduta. So, Sumati Murariji was the person who sponsored that travel for him. Prabhupada writes in his diary, I thank Lord Krishna for enlightening Sumati Murariji from within her heart to provide all these facilities for me.
It’s amazing, you know. Prabhupada is aware that Sumati Murariji was giving. Prabhupada is also aware that it is Krishna who is guiding her through the heart.
So actually, if somebody is offering gratitude, or doing something good for us, we are grateful for that. We don’t see that when we say somebody is an agent of Krishna’s love, that doesn’t mean that that person doesn’t have free will or that person is not offering love to us. They also have to be willing to become agents of Krishna’s.
We do credit. When somebody is offering love for us, care, kindness, we do credit for that. I am not talking about reducing that person to a depersonalized chain or link or something.
We see them as a conscious person who is choosing to love us. What I am talking about is not reducing ourselves based on that relationship. That means that if this person doesn’t care for me, then I am unloved.
If this person was caring for me, it is good. But now if this person doesn’t care for me, that doesn’t mean that Krishna doesn’t care. Krishna would care for me to this person.
Krishna would care for me to some other person.