Story 37 Siva, Parvati, watermelon
PRABHUPĀDA: You can do it immediately.
But unfortunately you’ll not do it.
So what can be done?
There is a story; I may narrate it.
One poor man was begging on the street,
and Lord Śiva and Pārvatī were passing as ordinary man.
So, Pārvatī requested Lord Śiva that this poor man…
He’s asking; he’s begging; so requesting him,
“Why don’t you give him something?”
And Lord Śiva replied, “Even if I give, he’ll not be able to enjoy it.
He’s so unfortunate.”
“Oh, that we shall see; why don’t you give?”
So Lord Śiva, in a watermelon, gave him, say, one thousand dollars.
“Take this watermelon.”
So, he thanked him, and after that he thought,
“What if… What I shall do with this watermelon?”
So another man came, “Sir, if you take this watermelon and give me one anna.”
So he gave one anna and he took the watermelon.
Because he had no good fortune to take that money within the watermelon.
Our fortune is like that.
Kṛṣṇa is giving us the final benefit, but we are not taking care of.
This is our misfortune.
Subtitles by Pratyatoṣa Dāsa, Causelessmercy.com