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What Prabhupada said about Fools 4 of 4 -
03-27-2008, 10:12 AM
Sri Caitanya-caritamrita, Adi-lila Introduction: It is a fact that we are constantly being kicked by mäyä, just as the male ass is kicked in the face by the she-ass when he comes for sex. Similarly, cats and dogs are always fighting and whining when they have sex. Even an elephant in the jungle is caught by the use of a trained she-elephant who leads him into a pit. We should learn by observing these tricks of nature.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:" /><o:p></o:p>
Mäyä has many ways to entrap us, and her strongest shackle is the female. Of course, in actuality we are neither male nor female, for these designations refer only to the outer dress, the body. We are all actually Kåñëa’s servants. But in conditioned life we are shackled by iron chains in the form of beautiful women. Thus every male is bound by sex, and therefore one who wishes to gain liberation from the material clutches must first learn to control the sex urge. Unrestricted sex puts one fully in the clutches of illusion.<o:p></o:p>
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Çréla Prabhupäda: Darwin and his followers are rascals. If originally there were no higher species, why do they exist now? Also, why do the lower species still exist? For example, at the present moment we see both the intellectual person and the foolish ass. Why do both these entities exist simultaneously? Why hasn’t the ass form evolved upward and disappeared? Why do we never see a monkey giving birth to a human? The Darwinists’ theory that human life began in such and such an era is nonsense. Bhagavad-gétä says that you can directly transmigrate to any species of life you like, according to your efforts.<o:p></o:p>
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Çyämasundara: Marx says that God does not create man; rather, man creates God.<o:p></o:p>
Çréla Prabhupäda: That is more nonsense. From what he says, I can tell he is a nonsensical rascal and a fool. One cannot understand that someone is a fool unless he talks. A fool may dress very nicely and sit like a gentleman amongst gentlemen, but we can tell the fools from the learned men by their speech. <o:p></o:p>
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Sri Isopanisad Mantra 10 "The wise have explained that one result is derived from the culture of knowledge and that a different result is obtained from the culture of nescience."<o:p></o:p>
As advised in Chapter Thirteen of the Bhagavad-gétä (13.8–12), one should culture knowledge in the following [18] way[s]:<o:p></o:p>
. . . These eighteen items combine to form a gradual process by which real knowledge can be developed. Except for these, all other methods are considered to be in the category of nescience. Çréla Bhaktivinoda Öhäkura, a great äcärya, maintained that all forms of material knowledge are merely external features of the illusory energy and that by culturing them one becomes no better than an ass. This same principle is found here in Çré Éçopaniñad. By advancement of material knowledge, modern man is simply being converted into an ass. . . . <o:p></o:p>
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