Upakhyane
Upadesa
Instructive Stories from Shrila Bhaktisiddhanta
Sarasvati Thakura
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Honey and the Foolish Bumblebee
Once a bumblebee saw a transparent glass bottle full of honey,
and it wanted to enjoy the contents. Without realising that the honey was
covered by the glass bottle, the foolish bee tried again and again to relish
it.
Sitting upon the bottle, the bee concluded finally that it had relished
the honey. In fact, it could not even touch the honey, not to speak of relishing
its sweetness. The bee was simply self-deceived.
PURPORT
The materialistic persons
and commonplace so-called vaisnavites believe that they have relished the nectar
of devotion. In fact, they can not even discover the source of transcendental
mellows of devotion, Lord Krishna.
In modern times, some people while
listening to chanting and performing musical recitations of the compositions of
such stalwarts like Candidas, Vidyapati and the like on the pastimes of Lord
Shri Krishna, believe that they have relished the transcendental mellows of love
from Lord Shri Krishna. In fact, they never reach the province of Lord Shri
Krishna's pastimes or His transcendental mellows.
Some awful religious
renegade and turbulent heretic like Kalapahadh, the notorious iconoclast, may
think that they can demolish and destroy Deities and temples of the Supreme
Godhead, or some egotistic so-called preachers may boast of finding out quite a
good number of faults and discrepancies in the holy scriptures like Shrimad
Bhagavatam and Shrimad Bhagavad Gita!
Even Ravana, the great king of demons,
intended to abduct Sita Devi with an idea of enjoying her. In fact, they could
not even have a look at the object of their lust and desire, not to speak of
touching them. Ravana simply deceived himself by abducting only the shadow-form
of Sita Devi and failed in his attempt to enjoy her.
If anyone tears up a
map of India in anger and jealousy, and thinks that he has destroyed the entire
state of India, then it is nothing but his foolishness. Similarly, people who
are inclined to go against Shri Hari and the spiritual masters including all
Vaishnavas, under the illusory materialistic knowledge, simply expose themselves
as the most foolish entities on this earth.
Shri Chaitanyadeva has
said:
aprakrta vastu nahe prakrta gocar
/
vede puranete ei kahe nirantar
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"Spiritual substance is never within the jurisdiction of the
material
conception. This is always the verdict of the Vedas and
Puranas."
(Cc.Madhya Lila
9.195)
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Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare
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Hare Krishna ๐
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