on a chain

The same example, as I have already said many times, that within the cage there is the bird. You don't take care of the bird, and you simply cleanse this cage-the bird will not be satisfied. He will cry always, "Give me food. Give me food." The another example I gave the another psychiatrist, that this body is a machine-actually it is a machine-and it is being driven by two persons. One is God and one is the living entity, individual. The God is giving direction. The living entity, individual soul, wants to enjoy, so he is on the carriage, same carriage, the Supersoul and the soul. So the Supersoul knows what I want to enjoy, and He is giving facility: "Oh, you want this facility? Now drive your car in this way. You want this facility? All right, drive this way, this way." Actually Supersoul, or God, does not want, but He is so kind. Just like a gentleman, he gives the dog all facility, sometimes going this side, sometimes going this side, sometimes passing stool, sometimes passing urine, and he is standing. He is controlling, but he is giving some facilities: "This dog is my servant. Let him have." This is going on. Without God's sanction, we cannot do anything.    (More...)

Actually, without Krsna's help, without God's help, you cannot do anything. Sarvasya caham hrdi... Kartaham iti manyate [Bg 3.27]. In the demonic stage the living entity becomes a, what is called, play dog. Prakrteḥ kriyamanani gunaiḥ karmani sarvasaḥ [Bg 3.27]. Just like you have been in the beach: the dog is bound up by the chain, or the master says, "You come here," he has to come here. "You go there," like that. So we are enchained by these laws of material nature-daivi hy esa guna-mayi mama maya duratyaya [Bg 7.14], but we are claiming independent. There is no independence. There cannot be independence. You are the servant. We are all the servant of maya, prakrti, because we have given up the service of the Lord. Our constitutional position is to remain a servant. But if we defy God, Krsna, and we want to become independent, that means we become servant of prakrti. Prakrteḥ kriyamanani gunaiḥ karmani sarvasaḥ [Bg 3.27]. We associate with different modes of material nature-sattva-guna, rajo-guna, tamo-guna. And under different association or being controlled by different modes of material nature, we are getting different varieties of body.    (More...)