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Story 35 Scholar and the boatman

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An interesting story
has been described

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by our Satsvarūpa Mahārāja
in the <i>Back to Godhead</i>:

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The learned scholar
and the boatman.

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The boatman… In Bengal,

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there are many rivers, and the people
generally transport by boat service.

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So, a learned scholar
from Calcutta, say,

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was going home in the village on
a boat, and he was very happy.

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So he was asking the boatman,

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“My dear boatman,

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do you know what are these stars, the
astronomy, how they are working?”

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“No, sir, I do not know.”

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“Ah, your life is twenty-
five percent lost.

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You do not know anything.”

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Then after some time,

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“You know the geology, how this
earth, water, they are working?”

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He said, “No, sir, I am poor
man; what can I know?”

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“So, your fifty percent
of your life is lost.”

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Then, all of a sudden
there was a cloud,

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black cloud on the sky,
and there was storm.

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Then at that time the boatman asked,
“Sir, do you know how to swim?”

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“No, I do not know.”

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“Then one hundred
percent you are lost now.

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You are going to be drowned.”

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He jumped and he drowned.

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So this is the point.

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That you are trying to understand

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the whole analytical study
of the material world.

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That is very good.

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But if you do not know how to
remember Nārāyaṇa at the time of death,

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then you are going to be
cats and dogs; that’s all.

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