Prema Samputika - "I am the follower of the Lord. I am the servant of the Lord. The Lord with his associates, an ocean of sweetness with his form qualities and pastimes, is to be served by me."

If one thinks in this way identifying oneself as the Lord's servant and making the Lord and his followers the object of one's possession, it "is called prema. Prema is different from both bondage and liberation, and is thus called the crown jewel of human goals. There is an order of spiritual development based on this