Madhavendra Puri wanted to leave Jagannath Puri because the people were honoring him as such a great devotee. However, this threatened his service. This is a very important principle. He was very much not liking Jagannath Puri because everyone was honoring him and worshipping him. And in his heart he just wanted to leave all this botheration of receiving honor and respect, worship, love, obeisances, gifts. But he knew that his service was to get sandalwood for Gopal and that the only way to get sandalwood was he had to remain in Jagannath Puri. So for the sake of service for Gopal he was going to tolerate all of this of this respectfulness and all of this honor and all of this worship. And this way, this is the position of a real acharya or guru. Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur, he used to say that when I sit on this Vyasasan, I feel like a dog sitting on a throne that's meant for a king. But still, because its the order of my gurudev, I must tolerate this for the sake of serving my disciples. For that a devotee is willing to endure. But if one enjoys being glorified enjoys being praised then that person is in a very unfortunate material conception of life. That person is not actually a guru, a vaishnav in the true sense.
