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SB 6-01-26 CHI 1975-07-11 An Ass's Affection
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ANNOUNCER: The following is a
class on the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam,
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6th canto, 1st chapter,
text number 26,
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given by His Divine Grace
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda,
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recorded on the 11th of July,
1975, in Chicago, Illinois.
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PRABHUPĀDA:
oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya
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DEVOTEES:
oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya
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- oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya
- oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya
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bhuñjānaḥ prapiban khādan
bālakaṁ sneha-yantritaḥ
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bhojayan pāyayan mūḍho
na vedāgatam antakam
[SB 6.1.26]
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Bhuñjāna:
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By raising him very affectionately,
by giving him all necessities of life:
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Bhuñjānaḥ prapiban—all kinds
of drinks, milk, fruit juice;
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khādan—solid food…
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There are four kinds of
foodstuff: something we chew,
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something we swallow, something
we lick up, and something we drink.
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So, everything was being supplied,
bālakam, to that small boy.
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Every mother, every
father does so.
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It is very natural.
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Sneha-yantritaḥ;
why do they do so?
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That is God’s arrangement.
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If the father and mother hasn’t got
such affection, then the helpless child…
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In the beginning there is
no other means of living.
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Even cats and dogs; even
tigers; they also take care.
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So this is not very extraordinary thing,
that human being has got affection.
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That affection is
there even in tiger.
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So you are not very
that way advanced.
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That is natural.
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That kind of affection
for the small child,
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you will find in cats and dogs
and tigers even—even snake.
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So these things are not
extraordinary things.
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They are very much proud, “How I
have to take care of my children.”
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So that is taken care
by other animals also.
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bhuñjānaḥ prapiban khādan
bālakaṁ sneha-yantritaḥ
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bhojayan pāyayan mūḍhaḥ
[SB 6.1.26]
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In spite of so much affection
and taking care of the children,
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he is addressed here: Mūḍha.
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Just see.
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They are very much proud of
being affectionate, but śāstra says,
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“You are rascal, that’s all.”
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Mūḍha.
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bhojayan pāyayan mūḍho
na vedāgatam antakam
[SB 6.1.26]
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He could not understand that “I
am very busy in raising my child,
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but here, back side, there is death.
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Death is waiting to scramble me.”
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So not only in these activities,
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in every activity we are very
busy with material activities.
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And, we do not know that on
my back side death is standing.
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He will take everything:
What I have got.
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Kṛṣṇa says in the Bhagavad-gītā: mrtyuh
sarva-haras ca aham [Bg. 10.34].
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The death is also Kṛṣṇa.
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He said, aham.
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Mṛtyuḥ sarva-haraś
ca aham: “I am death.
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You cannot see God.
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You are very much
proud of your eyes.
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Now you see I have come.
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I’ll take away everything:
What have you got.
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Now you protect yourself
and your property,
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your skyscraper
building, everything.
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Now you protect.”
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So therefore mūḍha.
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He does not know how to protect
things, but he is creating things.
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That is called mūḍha.
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Just like I am collecting
lakhs and millions of money,
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but next moment there is standing
somebody, he will take away.
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So that I do not know,
that one man is waiting.
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I am collecting.
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There was a caricature picture when
India was struggling for independence.
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So, the Gandhi’s picture: Gandhi
was fishing with the tackle,
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and Jinnah was standing
behind with a knife and plate:
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“Let this rascal struggle for
independence, and as soon as he’s get,
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I will take share and
go away [to] Pakistan.”
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Actually he did so.
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He never went to jail, but he took
the share and made… made Pakistan.
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So Gandhi, therefore, was
not in favor of partition.
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But he had to do—accept it.
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Because the Britishers
were very intelligent,
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that, “Let us divide it so that India
may not become a strong power.”
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So, that is still, it is going on, the animosity
between Pakistan and Hindustan.
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It is British plan; that is politics.
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So similar plan is always there:
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That we are struggling for existence
and accumulating so many things.
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Just like you have got
this nice city: Chicago.
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Not only Chicago; there are
many others in America.
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But the people are
not thinking that:
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“How long I shall remain
American and enjoy this?
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Maybe fifty years, twenty-five
years or utmost hundred years.
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But, everything will be taken: my
American citizenship, my body, my wealth;
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everything will be taken by death.
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So what insurance I am
doing for that purpose,
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that I… it will not be
taken: I shall enjoy it?”
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Therefore mūḍha.
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There is reason why they
are called mūḍhas, rascals.
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They do not know
their actual interest.
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Everyone, not only you, everyone,
the whole material world,
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they do not know what
is his actual interest.
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Everyone should be self-
interested; that is very good.
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But the fools, rascals, do not know
what is his actual self-interest.
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na te viduḥ svārtha-gatiṁ hi viṣṇuṁ
[SB 7.5.31]
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Svārtha-gatim means
the self-interest.
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Svārtha; sva means own,
and artha means interest.
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He does not know.
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Therefore he is mūḍha.
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He does not know his self-interest.
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It is very good that you
become self-interested,
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but if you do not know what is your
self-interest, then you are a mūḍha.
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So actually, that is the position of all
living entities within this material world.
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Encaged by māyā, illusion, they have
forgotten what is the self-interest.
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The self-interest is: go back
to home, back to Godhead.
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That is real self-interest.
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So every intelligent man should
first of all see to his self-interest,
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how to become free from this repetition
of birth and death and go back to home,
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back to God; that is self-interest.
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And if we do not know…
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We do not execute in that way—
that means Kṛṣṇa consciousness—
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then however we may be philanthropist,
affectionate, very good economist,
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very good philosopher…
Everything is nonsense: mūḍha.
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That is the statement, that we
should not remain mūḍha.
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We should become intelligent
and see to our self-interest,
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and that is the success of life.
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Thank you very much.
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