Story 39 Smearing stool
PRABHUPĀDA: Prakṛteḥ kriyamāṇāni [Bg. 3.27]; nature is so strong that you must die.
“I am very strong.” Ah, you may be very strong, that’s all right, but you must.
There… There is a… I mean to say,
joking story that one man thought, “How to avoid death?”
Jana Hiraṇyakaśipu [?].
So, he thought that, “Yamarāja is the superintendent of death.
He comes to take.
I shall make such policy that he may not come to me.”
What is that policy?
“So bring some stool.
I shall smear over my body, and out of bad smell, he’ll not come.”
So he began to smear stool on his body at the time of death.
So this is going on.
They are making body very stout and strong so they’ll survive.
Nobody will survive, sir, unless he is Kṛṣṇa conscious.
Thank you very much.
Subtitles by Pratyatoṣa Dāsa, Causelessmercy.com