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  Upakhyane Upadesa Instructive Stories from  Shrila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura 🔆🔆🔆🔆🔆🔆🔆 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 recitatio...

  Upakhyane Upadesa Instructive Stories from  Shrila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura 🔆🔆🔆🔆🔆🔆🔆 The  “Golden” Stone Pot A wealthy landlord called upon a goldsmith in his village and requested him while giving him a lump of pure gold, “You are to make a nice pot for my milk with this gold. You should not make it in any way impure by mixing any kind of alloy in it.” The goldsmith agreed, “Yes sir”, and went away with the gold-lump.   Thus getting a lump of pure gold in his possession, the goldsmith was tempted to steal it. However, he apprehended that he would be punished by the landlord if he cheated him entirely, so he made up a plan to prepare a stone-pot and gold-plate it so that he would not be accused of stealing the gold.   When the goldsmith took the gold-plated stone pot to  the landlord, the landlord asked him in great astonishment, “What is this thing you have brought?” The goldsmith replied, “O sir! This is a golden pot. I have ma...

There was once a frog that lived in a pond. One day, her son happened to see an elephant near a tank. The baby frog returned to it’s mother and enthusiastically told her, “Mother, today I saw a huge animal!” The mother frog asked, “Really? How big was the animal?” The baby frog replied, “Oh, it was much bigger than you are.” The frog puffed up her body and asked, “This much bigger?” The baby replied, “Oh no, much bigger.” The mother puffed up her body more and asked, “Even this much bigger?” Her child replied, “No, no mother, much bigger than that.” In this way the mother frog gradually puffed up her body more and more and each time the baby-frog would continue to tell her, “much bigger, much bigger”. Finally, while trying to puff up her body beyond limit, the frog’s belly exploded with a big bang. PURPORT The insignificant living entities who consider themselves as “para-brahma” (para = supreme, brahma = Absolute Being), or as  if nothing is equal to or greater than t...

  Upakhyane Upadesa Instructive Stories from  Shrila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura 🔆🔆🔆🔆🔆🔆🔆 A Lesson on Geometry There was once a poor widow who, through great hardship, was struggling to bring up her only son. As she realised that he was her only hope for the future, she appointed a tutor for him although she would sometimes have to borrow the money to pay for the tuition fees. Once, after being promoted to class VII, the boy was being taught Geometry by the teacher in English. As soon as the boy read out loud, “Let ABC be a triangle”, the boy’s mother rushed into the classroom and screamed at the teacher thus : “This boy is supposed to be advancing in his studies after being raised to class VII, but you are still teaching him ABC - he learned all this when he was an infant - and to think I am paying you 10 rupees a month!  From today you are no longer required here. You are only fit for teaching a primary school if all you can teach is ABC!” The wi...