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Our mission to educate the dogs, hogs... ![]() Our mission to educate the dogs, hogs, camels and assesExcerpt from lecture on Srimad-Bhagavatam 2.3.19, Los Angeles, June 15, 1972PRABHUPADA: The karmis [materialists] are compared with the ass. Big, big businessmen, day and night working hard, earning money, not for himself. What he will eat? Two chapatis, that's all. Or little milk or little... Not that he has earned 1000 dollars every day and he will eat it. No. He will eat, out of that 1000 dollars, he will eat fifty cents, and balance will be eaten by others. You see. But still, he is working hard. And the example is ass. The ass takes a morsel of grass. It is worth nothing. The ass can get anywhere the morsel of grass. But still, he thinks that the washerman is feeding me. So he remains there. And in Mexico you found some asses, carrying loads. So they are carrying loads, very heavy loads, tons, for that morsel of grass, which he can get anywhere. But he thinks, "Oh, I will die. If my master does not give me a morsel of grass, I will die. So let me remain here and carry all the big loads." You see. Similarly, the karmis, they remain at home. They think that "My wife, my children, my family—without them, I shall die. So I have to work to maintain them like an ass." That's all. The karmis, they are working, accumulating bank balance, more, more, more, more, more, more. But forgetting the real mission of life. Therefore ass. Ass means fool. Whenever one man is called, "You are ass," that means he's a fool. So this human form of life, so valuable... To realize Krishna and go back to Him, that should be our main business. But these karmis, they do not know what is the mission of this human form of life. They are busy working hard, day and night, for a morsel of grass. That's all. There are many other verses. Yan maithunadi-grihamedhi-sukham hi tuccham [Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.9.45]. So shastra [Vedic literature], intelligence, knowledge, means one should study everything very critically: "What is my position? What is my duty?" We should not be like the animals. Shva-vid-varahoshtra-khara [dogs, camels, asses and pigs]. Now we have got our great personalities, leaders. They are praised, eulogized, our, these political leaders. "Our Hitler," "Our Gandhi," "Our Churchill," "Our Nixon." But shastra says these leaders, those who are not spiritual leaders, those who cannot give our life, they are worshiped by these classes of animals, animals. These so-called leaders, politicians, they are eulogized very much by whom? By these class of men: dogs, camels, asses and... What is the other one? So this is the position of Kali-yuga [the present age]. Mleccha rajanya-rupino bhakshayishyanti prajas te. That is predicted in the Srimad-Bhagavatam, that in Kali-yuga the mlecchas (means the rejected from human society), such persons, rogues and fools and rascals, they will take the post of king. Rajanya-rupinah. They are unworthy to be kicked, but they will take the post of government.
Rajanya-rupinah. And what will be their business? They will eat the citizens. That's all. Vital force. Vital force, blood-sucking, tax. Durbhiksha-kara-piditah [SB 12.2.9]: on one side, there will be scarcity of supply; on other side, the people will be perplexed with taxes. These are going to happen. And they will give up their homely life and will go to the forest, to the hills. Just like every year you hear. Now it is going on. Just like in Vietnam. The poor people, they are sometimes vacating this place, vacating that place. They are troubled. The politicians, they are making their own plan, and the poor people ... We have seen. When partition was made in India, all poor Hindus and Muslims, they were in trouble. And the leaders, they were in happy mood in their apartment, ordering and eating very nicely, butter and bread. That's all. This is going on. |
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