Prabhupada 's humour

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Srila Prabhupada's humour:

SEEING GOD

" So seeing God is not difficult, but we have to prepare our eyes. And

how that eye is prepared, that is stated in the Vedic literature, that if

you kindly smear your eyeball with the ointment of love... There is an

ointment. Of course, it is not available in the drug shop. You have to

prepare that ointment. You have to prepare that eye ointment, love, love

ointment."

 

THE BIGGEST SHOCK OF ONE'S LIFE

(Prabhupada's Lectures Bhagavad-gita 1966 )

Prabhupada: Here Krsna gives the symptom how one is situated in the Brahman

situation. Na prahrsyet priyam prapya. When one is situated in Brahman

conception of life or Krsna consciousness life, suppose all of a sudden he

gets some hundred millions of dollars. Suppose he is a poor man, but all of

a sudden... There was a case in... There are many case. In India there was

a case in Calcutta. One... What is called? The caretaker of the horse? What

is this called? What is his name?

Devotee: Groom. A groom.

Prabhupada: Groom, yes. He, with his master, purchased some lottery ticket,

and the master did not get anything, but the groom, he got some ten lakhs

of rupees or something like that. His name was there. So when he was

informed by the master, "Oh, you have got this money," he at once failed

his heart and died. So he thought, "Oh, so much money I have got." So

thinking that, there was heart failure and died. Yes. All of a sudden this

happened. You see. It is a shock. Just like you get some horrible shock, so

this is pleasure shock. This is pleasure shock. Shock it was really... Poor

man, ordinary man, when he understood that "I have got ten millions of

dollars in my bank now," oh, he became shocked and at once died. So here

the same thing: one who is actually in the stage of equilibrium--na

prahrsyet priyam prapya.