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Imported quote 14541 The two eyes are attracted by brilliant things like light. Sometimes we find that little insects are attracted by the brightness of fire and thus enter into it. Similarly, the two eyes of the living entity are attracted by bright and beautiful forms. They are entangled in these forms, exactly as the insect becomes attracted to fire.
(More...) Imported quote 17505 So srsti-sthiti... Mayadhyaksena prakrtiḥ sūyate sa-caracaram [Bg 9.10]. So prakrti, this material nature, is working, and if one is criminal... Criminal means we are. Just see the flies, the insects, how much they are suffering. Whole night, they struggle to enjoy the lamp, and in the morning all dead. All dead. This is their life. So we are thinking that we are better situated. No, we are not better situated. Our the principle is the same, that you come here, you accept a certain type of body, and whole night, or whole life... Night means ignorance, darkness. So in ignorance you go on struggling whole life, and then you become dead, finished. The same thing. There is no difference between the life of the insect... Therefore Prabodhananda Sarasvati says that, that the..., these big, big demigods... Yat karunya-kataksa-vaibhavavatam. There is a verse; I just now forget it. Kaivalyam narakayate [Caitanya-candramrta 5]. Prabodhananda Sarasvati says that kaivalya, the impersonalists' theory of becoming one, monist, with the Absolute... That is called kaivalya. So he says, kaivalyam narakayate: "For a devotee who has got little favor of Caitanya Mahaprabhu, for him, this kaivalya-sukha, happiness of becoming one with the Supreme, is as good as the hell." Kaivalyam narakayate. And tri-dasa-pūra akasa-puspayate. Tri-dasa-pūra means where thirty-three millions of demigods live, heavenly planets, it is something like phantasmagoria, akasa-puspa, which has... Just like in Bengal they say, jokingly, ghoḍara ḍima. Ghoḍar ḍima means a ghoḍa, a horse, never gives eggs. It is fantastics. It is not possible. Similarly, these heavenly planets, for a Vaisnava, is ghoḍar ḍima. They don't care for it. It is no fact.
(More...) And what is the other? Now, vidhi-mahendradis ca kitayate. I was going to come to this point. Vidhi-mahendradis ca kitayate. Vidhi means Brahma, and mahendra means the king of heaven, Indradeva. Such, such big, big men, what to speak of these Churchill or Subhash Bose or... These big, big, they're kitayate. Kitayate means a devotee thinks this Brahma and Indra exactly like these insect. That is the conception. So that is actually the fact. Everyone... It is the relative world. Relatively, it looks very gorgeous, but the actually... Just like proportionate. You put five upon ten, and five millions upon ten millions. The ratio is the same: half. Similarly, these big, big men, these big, big politicians, they are struggling exactly like the insect. The whole life, they struggle. And in the morning, at a certain time, they're heap, heaps of dead body, that's all. We have seen it in Calcutta. When there was Hindu-Muslim riot, they fought, and in Baghbazar there were heaps of dead bodies. And when it is dead body, nobody could understand who is Hindu and who is Muslim; simply it was to be cleared from the road. So our position is like that.
(More...) Imported quote 17703 So this is maya. Janasya moho 'yam aham mameti [SB 5.5.8]. We gather exactly like the straws, and on account of maya's influence, we become very much attached: "Oh, here is my son. Here is my wife. Here is my family. Here is my..." And this is the, what is called, entanglement. Our main business is, in the human form of life, how to get out of this material world. They do not know. They not only create family but also society, community, nation. In this way we are embarrassed. The so-called nationalism, socialism and communism-simply moha, moha, exactly the same way as the small, that insects, under some illusion, moha, they come to the light and sacrifice their life. I have told you many times: We have seen in 1947, Partition days, Hindu-Muslim fighting. One party was Hindu, other party was Muslim. They fought and so many died. And after death, there was no distinction who is Hindu or who is Muslim. The Municipal men, they gathered together in piles and to throw them somewhere. Exactly the same way, the same insects, they come to the light and die in the morning, and we gather them together and throw in the street.
(More...) Imported quote 18468 Therefore na mam duskrtino mūḍhaḥ prapadyante naradhamaḥ [Bg 7.15]. People are becoming so naradhama, so sinful and mūḍha, that there is no rescue unless one takes to Krsna consciousness. There is no rescue. The whole world is going just like the flies. When there is fire, open fire, they come from long distance, and "fut! fut! fut! fut! fut!" being captivated by the beauty of the fire. Similarly, this whole civilization, this so-called civilization, human civilization, is falling in the fire of illusory maya, "fut! fut! fut! fut! fut!" and again and again. Bhūtva bhūtva praliyate [Bg 8.19]. Once takes birth, one again dies, again suffers. But we have no brain, mūḍha. Therefore is called mūḍha. Na mam duskrtino mūḍhaḥ prapadyante naradhamaḥ.
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