again you become a mouse
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Imported quote 16292 My dear Srila Prabhupada, only by remaining a faithful servant of your instructions, by which one develops attachment for your lotus feet, can one advance and become fixed on the platform of pure devotional service. I am praying for the wisdom and the undeviating fidelity to never break my eternal connection with you and the disciplic succession. You have indicated that when the qualified acarya leaves the planet, then things once again become disordered. We can all understand that the spell of the illusory energy is very strong (daivi hy esa guna-mayi mama maya duratyaya [Bg 7.14]), because even when you were present on the planet many apparently advanced disciples who deviated from your instructions met ignominious ends, being once again pulled under by the material whirlpool. This is undoubtedly because they left the shelter of your lotus feet. You have, however, indicated what we may do in the troubled and difficult days that lie ahead: "The perfect disciples of the acarya try to relieve the situation by sincerely following the instructions of the spiritual master." (Bhaktivedanta purport to Bhag. 4.28.48) Daily everything else is becoming insignificant. You have said that this material world is insignificant, that in Krsna's creation this world is simply like a single mustard seed in a bucket full of mustard seeds. I pray that I may return to my real position by never forgetting your instructions for a moment. I want to make them my very life and soul, and I am praying to develop the unalloyed devotion to do this.
(More...) Imported quote 23651 Prabhupada: Yes. This is exactly the same case. Punar mūsiko bhava, you know the whole story? A mūsika, a mouse, was made a tiger, and the tiger wanted to eat the saintly person who made him. First of all he was mouse. So he came to the saintly person, "Sir, I am troubled. Give me some benediction." "What do you want?" "Now, the cat always chases." "All right, you become cat so that you'll not be attacked." Then after some time he came, "I am being chased by the dog." "All right, you become a dog." From cat to dog, from mouse to... Then again he came. "Still they are chasing me. Fox." And then in this way, and ultimately he was made a tiger. And after becoming a tiger, he began to look, staring on the... "What do you mean by this?" "I shall eat you." "Oh? You become again a mouse." [laughter] Again he become mouse. That's all.
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