We are like street beggars

[Guest guest]

We are as if roaming in the street like street beggars, although we are all

the transcendental sons of the richest personality, the Personality of

Godhead. With a cool head, we could very well understand this fact. But

unmindful of our supremely rich father and our relationship with Him, we go

on endeavoring in many ways to solve our street-beggar problems of poverty

and hunger, but with practically no appreciable results. On the streets we

meet many friends who are similarly poverty-stricken. Sometimes those who

are a little better off than we are direct us toward some progressive stage

of life, but actually we do not derive any happiness from such directions.

These people show us the paths of work, knowledge, meditation, mysticism,

and various other ways also, but unfortunately none of them is able to give

us that happiness for which we are ever hankering. For this very reason,

Lord Caitanya advised Sri Rupa Gosvami at Dasasvamedha-ghata, on the bank of

the Ganges at Prayaga, that only the most fortunate souls can obtain the

seed of devotional service, by the mercy of the Personality of Godhead and

His bona fide representative.

 

Message of Godhead Ch. 2: Karma-yoga