0 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,900 Story 37 Siva, Parvati, watermelon 1 00:00:00,901 --> 00:00:04,280 PRABHUPĀDA: You can do it immediately. 2 00:00:04,281 --> 00:00:06,626 But unfortunately you’ll not do it. 3 00:00:06,627 --> 00:00:09,996 So what can be done? 4 00:00:09,997 --> 00:00:12,895 There is a story; I may narrate it. 5 00:00:12,896 --> 00:00:16,680 One poor man was begging on the street, 6 00:00:16,681 --> 00:00:24,784 and Lord Śiva and Pārvatī were passing as ordinary man. 7 00:00:24,785 --> 00:00:29,394 So, Pārvatī requested Lord Śiva that this poor man… 8 00:00:29,395 --> 00:00:34,579 He’s asking; he’s begging; so requesting him, 9 00:00:34,580 --> 00:00:37,008 “Why don’t you give him something?” 10 00:00:37,009 --> 00:00:42,179 And Lord Śiva replied, “Even if I give, he’ll not be able to enjoy it. 11 00:00:42,180 --> 00:00:44,979 He’s so unfortunate.” 12 00:00:44,980 --> 00:00:48,833 “Oh, that we shall see; why don’t you give?” 13 00:00:48,834 --> 00:00:55,562 So Lord Śiva, in a watermelon, gave him, say, one thousand dollars. 14 00:00:55,563 --> 00:00:59,119 “Take this watermelon.” 15 00:00:59,120 --> 00:01:03,688 So, he thanked him, and after that he thought, 16 00:01:03,689 --> 00:01:07,559 “What if… What I shall do with this watermelon?” 17 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:13,576 So another man came, “Sir, if you take this watermelon and give me one anna.” 18 00:01:13,577 --> 00:01:16,225 So he gave one anna and he took the watermelon. 19 00:01:16,226 --> 00:01:23,975 Because he had no good fortune to take that money within the watermelon. 20 00:01:23,976 --> 00:01:26,800 Our fortune is like that. 21 00:01:26,801 --> 00:01:37,648 Kṛṣṇa is giving us the final benefit, but we are not taking care of. 22 00:01:37,649 --> 00:01:46,738 This is our misfortune. 23 00:01:46,739 --> 00:01:46,740 Subtitles by Pratyatoṣa Dāsa, Causelessmercy.com