Lord Rāma, He married only one, Sītā. And when Sītā was kidnapped by Rāvaṇa, He never married again. Or when Sītā was sent to the forest for public opinion, He never married again. He remained a sticked to . . . stuck to only one wife, because He was setting example, moral principle, to the world. Kṛṣṇa married 16,108.
Not religious. Religious, He married only eight wife. But these 16,100 girls were kidnapped by one demon, and they were concentrated in a camp. So they prayed to Kṛṣṇa to save them. Kṛṣṇa is kind to everyone. So Kṛṣṇa came to their rescue, and He killed that demon. He rescued all the girls.
But the girls requested Kṛṣṇa that, "Because we were kidnapped and we are concentrated under his custody, so if we go back to our father, it will be difficult for him to get us married to a suitable prince. So our request is that You marry us." Kṛṣṇa agreed, "All right." He married wholesale, 16,100. And that can be possible. Why 16,100? He can marry 16,000,000 at a time. Otherwise how He's God?
Therefore Prahlāda Mahārāja advises his class fellows that "Don't be bothering yourself for solution of economic question. That is already provided." Just like all these animals, these birds, they have no question how to live, how to eat, how to mate, how to defend. This is already there.
They're eating, they're sleeping, they're mating and they're defending as far as required. Just see the birds, as soon as they see us they . . . (indistinct) . . . so the defending propensity is there. How you can say the man is greater intelligence? There is intelligence. They were here, and as soon as they saw, "Here are come all the men. They can eat us. Let us fly there." The man cannot come to . . . (indistinct) . . . so don't you see the defensive propensity is here?
You may, according to your intelligence, you may discover defensive weapons, nuclear weapons, and aeroplanes and bombs, and so many things, because they have got higher intelligence. That the . . . but the ultimate conclusion: that the defensive propensity is there in you also. There is no difference in the material existentional propensities. So what does he find?
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Mālatī: That man is . . .
Prabhupāda: Huh?
18:15 Mālatī: I think I understood you to say that man's intelligence is higher in purpose and it's not manual service, taking advantage of it.
Prabhupāda: Yes, his higher intelligence is utilized for purification. That is the teaching.
Mālatī: You were talking about Prahlāda.
Prabhupāda: Yes, Prahlāda Mahārāja said. Yes. About this body. It is arrangement, according to different body. Now, these swans, they have left this, defending—they're going away. This is defending only. Yes. And as soon as they're on the water, they think, "Oh, we are safe, because these rascals cannot come in the water." They are thinking about us "rascals." As we are thinking about them that they are lower animals, so they are also thinking, "These are rascals." Just like some father rebukes the son, the son also thinks of the father as rascal: "Unnecessarily he's chastising me."
There is a proverb that as the child grows . . . (break) . . . also thinks that "This boy is a fool, he'll do wrong by . . ." This is stated. And the child is stated in a different way. Just like sometimes our audience also. When we speak, they think, "All nonsense he's speaking. Oh, Kṛṣṇa, what is this Kṛṣṇa? Let us enjoy." They are not purified.