Daily Nectar
We should always be prepared to take instruction from the authorities. We should never think that we have become perfect.
Although you are perfect. Tṛṇād api sunīcena taror api sahiṣṇunā. One should be very humble, meek, and always think that "I am nothing." Just like the Author of Caitanya-Caritāmṛta, such a Great, stalwart man, such a great Devotee. Nobody has produced such literature as Caitanya-Caritāmṛta. He is presenting himself that "I am lighter than the worm in the stool." Purīṣera kīṭa haite muñi se laghiṣṭha CC Adi 5.205 . Purīṣ means stool and kīṭa means worm. So "I am lower than the worm in the stool. Anyone who takes my name, all his pious activities immediately becomes lost." In this way he is presenting himself.
That does not mean that he's actually so, but that is the Attitude of a Devotee. He's Always Very Meek and Humble.
--Srila Prabhupada, Lecture - New York - April 16, 1969
