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Story 07 The Brahmana and the Cobbler
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PRABHUPĀDA: So, for a devotee these
informations of Kṛṣṇa, oh, become so…
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“My Kṛṣṇa is so God; oh,
my God is so powerful.”
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And, I think, sometimes
I recited one story.
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This is for very instructive,
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that Nārada Muni… He used
to visit Nārāyaṇa every day.
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So when he was
passing on the road,
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so one very learned brāhmaṇa and taking
thrice bath and everything very nicely,
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he asked Nārada Muni,
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“Oh, you are going to Lord.
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Will you inquire when I
shall get my salvation?”
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“All right, I shall ask.”
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And then another cobbler, he was under
the tree, sewing the shoes, old shoes.
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He also saw Nārada Muni.
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He also inquired, “Will you kindly inquire
from God when my salvation is…?”
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And when he inquired
Kṛṣṇa, Nārāyaṇa…
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Nārada Muni goes generally
to Nārāyaṇa, in another planet.
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So, “Yes, two, one brāhmaṇa and
one cobbler,” they inquired like this.
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“So may I know what
is their destination?”
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So Nārāyaṇa said, “Well, yes, the
cobbler, this after giving up this body,
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he’s coming here at Vaikuṇṭha.”
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“And what about that brāhmaṇa?”
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“Oh, he has to remain
there still so many births,
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or I do not know
when he’s coming.”
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So Nārada Muni
was astonished, that
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“I saw that he’s very nice
brāhmaṇa, and he’s a cobbler.
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How is that?”
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So he inquired that “I could not,
cannot understand the mystery.
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Why You say that
cobbler is coming this,
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after this body, and why
not this brāhmaṇa?”
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“Oh, that will, you’ll understand.
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If they inquire that ‘What Kṛṣṇa, or
Nārāyaṇa, was doing in the, in His abode,’
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so just explain that He was taking
one elephant from the holes of a…”
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What is called…? “Needle,” yes.
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“Through the hole of a needle,
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He’s pulling an elephant
this side and this side.”
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All right; so when he again
approached the brāhmaṇa,
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the brāhmaṇa said, “Oh,
you have seen Lord?”
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“Yes.”
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“So what was [He] doing?”
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“He was doing this:
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through the point of a needle
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He was pushing one elephant
this way and that way.”
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“Oh, therefore I have
no faith in your…
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I have got all respect for your garb,
but we don’t believe all this nonsense.”
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Then Nārada could understand,
“Oh, this man has no faith.
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He simply reads books.
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That’s all.”
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And when he went to the cobbler,
he also asked, “Oh, you have seen?
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What Nārāyaṇa was doing?”
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He also said that “He
was doing like this…”
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Oh, he began to cry, “Oh,
my Lord is wonderful.
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Oh he can do anything.”
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Śrī Nārada inquired,
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“So do you believe that Lord can push one
elephant through the [hole] of a needle?”
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“Oh, why not?
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I must believe.”
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“Then what is your reason?”
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“Oh, my reason?
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I am sitting under this banyan tree,
and so many fruits are falling daily,
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and in each fruit there are thousands
of seeds, and each seed there is a tree.
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If in a small seed there
can be big tree like that,
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is it very impossible to accept that Kṛṣṇa
is putting one elephant through the,
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I mean, the [hole] of a needle?
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He has kept such a
nice tree in the seed.”
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So this is called belief.
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So unbelievers and believer means the
believers, they are not blind believers.
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They have reason.
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If by Kṛṣṇa’s process, by God’s
process, or nature’s process,
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such a big tree can be
put within the small seed,
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is it very impossible for Kṛṣṇa to keep
all these planets floating in His energy?
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So, we have to believe; we
have no other explanation.
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But we have to
understand in this way.
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Our reasoning, our argument,
our logic should go in this way.
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So those who are devotee…
Just like the cobbler.
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He may be a cobbler.
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They believe everything.
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And those who are not devotee,
they’ll say, “Oh, these are all bluffs.”
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It is all bluff.
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But they are not bluff.
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It is simply meant for the
devotees; they can understand.
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The nondevotees, they
cannot understand.
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