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Story 29 Monkey and log
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PRABHUPĀDA: Expert
means whatever he is doing,
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he must do it very nicely; that’s all.
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Suppose you are
sweeping this room.
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You can do it very nicely,
to your best knowledge.
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That is expert.
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The people will say, “Oh,
you have very nicely done.”
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Any work you do, do it very nicely.
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That is expert.
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Don’t do it haphazardly.
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To your best talent,
to your best capacity,
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try to finish it very nicely,
whatever it may be.
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You are entrusted with some work.
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Do it nicely.
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That is expert.
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If you think that you are
unable to do that work,
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then whatever work
you can do, you take.
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But do it nicely.
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That is expert.
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Don’t imitate.
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“Oh, I have no capacity to work
in that way, but I want to imitate.
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Oh, he is doing that.”
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I shall do that.
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Don’t do that.
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That is not expert.
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You take up what you can do
very nicely and do it nicely.
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We have so many works.
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Kṛṣṇa is not that He is static.
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He is dynamic force.
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Just like Arjuna, he
was not a Vedantist,
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he was not a brāhmaṇa,
he was not a sannyāsī.
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He was householder.
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He was military man.
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But he knew his business,
how to do it nicely.
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So you do your business nicely.
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That is expert.
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And when it is dovetailed in Kṛṣṇa,
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there is no gradation that this business
is better and that business is lower,
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because everything is for Kṛṣṇa.
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So that business becomes Kṛṣṇa.
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Do it nicely and Kṛṣṇa is satisfied.
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That is your success.
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Avyāpare suvyaparam
yo naraḥ kartum icchati,
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sa-mulo hanyate
’khila pārthiva vānaraḥ [?]
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Expert.
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There is a very nice
story in Sanskrit.
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A monkey.
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A monkey… You might have some
experience, that sawmen, who cut wood?
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Sawmen.
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So a sawman was
cutting wood by the saw.
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At the end of business it was half cut
so he pulled down a, I mean to say,
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a plug so that next day he will
come and he’ll again begin sawing.
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So went… So one monkey came.
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So monkey sat down there,
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and began to pull on the plug because
monkey’s business is simply mischievous.
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So he did not know
that his plough [?]
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and some portion of his
thigh was within the hole,
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and when he took out this plug
it was, how you say, clipped,
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and he could not get out and died.
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So the instruction is that… ’Khila pārthiva
vānaraḥ, vyāpare suvyaparam. [?]
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Avyāpara means a occupation, an
occupation which is not fit for you.
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That is avyāpara.
Avyāpara-suvyaparam.
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And one occupation which is not exactly
fitting you, you do not know how to do it,
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so avyāpare suvyaparam yo kartu…
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If one wants to act in a business
in which he is unable to do,
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then he is killed just
like this fool monkey.
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Avyāpare suvyaparam yo naraḥ
kartum icchati, sa-mulo hanyate.
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That foolish person is
killed just like this monkey.
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The monkey’s business was not to imitate
the sawman, but he wanted to imitate.
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The result was that he was killed.
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So that is not expert.
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Expertness is you just try to do
which is easily performed by you.
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You don’t accept
anything heavy task,
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because Kṛṣṇa does not want that
you have to do this heavy task.
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Whatever you know,
you just apply it.
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You dovetail it in
Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
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Kṛṣṇa does not say that you have to
become like this, like that, like that.
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Then you can serve Him.
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Does not say.
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Just like this cow.
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Just see.
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What does it know?
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He’s an animal.
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You see?
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But the calf knows to brush his
head and tongue like this, in love.
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It is doing and Kṛṣṇa
accepting, “Yes.”
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That is expert.
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First of all find out what
is easily done by you.
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Don’t take anything which
is not easily done by you.
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You find out what
is your occupation,
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what you can very nicely
and easily perform,
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and do it for Kṛṣṇa.
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