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If you don't improve yourself in Krsna consciousness, then you again become stool worms

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"If you don't improve yourself in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then you again become the stool worms"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1970 Conversations and Morning Walks

If you don't improve yourself in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then you again become stool worms. The human form of life is an opportunity to come out of the cycle of birth and death, but if one does not take—these are the statements in Padma Purāṇa—then he loses the chance.


Room Conversation -- December 14, 1970, Indore:

Prabhupāda: The zamindars, immediately after this attainment of independence, all the zamindars and kings were bereft of their possessions.

You were in Calcutta? Oh, none of you were with me. We saw one house for purchasing. That was a big zamindar's house, Tagore Thakur. You saw? Yes. If you have saw . . . how nicely it was. When they were in opulence in our childhood, oh, it was a house to be seen. There are many houses. Just like in England the lord families. In Ascot, where we stayed, that was also lord family's house. Now Yoko is ocupying, a third-class Japanese girl. She has become the queen of the house.

And how third class, low grade. It is the sitting room, and a naked picture has . . . how much degraded people have become. How this man is daring to hang that picture in his sitting room so that everyone who comes sees. How much low-graded they are. They want change, but because they have no . . . (indistinct) . . . education, they are going to the animal sphere. That is hippie movement. Yes. From animal standard they become civilized. The same story, punar muṣika bhāvaḥ. You know that story? "Again become mouse."

Haṁsadūta: Oh, yeah. I've heard that.

Prabhupāda: The story is a mouse came to a saintly person, "Sir, I am in trouble. If you kindly release me." "What is that trouble?" "A cat, they are after me. I am always at risk of life." "So what do you want?" "You also make me a cat." "All right. You become a cat." Then again he came. "Sir, again the complaint is here." "What is that?" "Dogs are chasing me." "Then what do you want?" "I want to become a dog." "All right. You become a dog." In this way he came up to the tiger by the benediction of . . . and when he became a tiger, he was . . . (snarling sound) (laughter) Just like our Brahmānanda Prabhu. "All right. Again become mouse." (laughter) You see?

So these civilization is like that. They became tiger, and they are so much badly trained up that they have to become again a mouse. That is the way. That is the way of nature. If you don't improve yourself in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then you again become the stool worms. The human form of life is an opportunity to come out of this cycle of birth and death, but if one does not take—these are the statements in Padma Purāṇa—then he loses the chance. They do not know what is life, how life is rotating. Talking nonsense, "I am God. Why Kṛṣṇa should be God? This is written by man." How much low-graded people have become.

They are completely under the laws of nature. Daivī hy eṣā guṇamayī mama māyā duratyayā (BG 7.14), stringent laws of nature, and still, they are claiming, "I am God," "I am this," "I am that," "I am free," "I am . . ." And they do not mind, even they are degraded to the position of the worm of stool. But there is possibility. What is this worm of stool? It is also living entity. It is not a different thing. Paṇḍitāḥ sama-darśinaḥ (BG 5.18). One who knows, he knows that the worm of stool and Brahmā are the same living entity. Simply under different reaction of karma one has become Brahmā and another has become the stool worm.

Page Title:If you don't improve yourself in Krsna consciousness, then you again become stool worms
Compiler:Visnu Murti
Created:11 of Aug, 2010
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1