Why people are inimical to others always?

[suchandra]

Already in 1973 Prabhupada spoke of computer experts but without a good master this education is useless, how true!

 

"So why they have been described as dog? Dog means he is very

faithful to his master. But if you pass through him without any fault,

he will bark, “Gow! Gow! Gow! Gow!” That is dog’s fault. One

qualification is that he is very faithful to the master, but to the

others, he is inimical always. In your country we have got

experience. They have written, “Beware of dog.” And if you pass, you

are not entering the house, still, unnecessarily, the dog will bark.

Even if he is on the top of veranda corridor, by seeing another

unknown person, he will bark. That is offensive. So that is dog’s

business. And at the present moment the dog is happy only when he

has got a good master. Otherwise dog is not happy. A street dog, he

cannot eat. He has no eating. He has no place. He is lean and thin.

You have seen. But he has got a good master, he is very stout, fatty,

and very expert in barking. (laughter) So this is dog’s qualification.

He is very faithful.

So at the present moment people are like that. They are being

educated, but technologist or computer expert or this, that, so

many… The father spends so much money. He becomes an expert.

But if he does not get a good master to employ him, he is useless.

He is useless. His technological knowledge will be useless if he does

not get a master. So therefore the modern education system is to

create dogs. He will never be happy unless he gets a good master.

Actually, we are constitutionally all dogs. But we do not know whom

to serve. That is our misunderstanding. Actually, every one of us,

servant. That’s a fact. But we are missing the point, where to engage

ourself in good service. That is Kṛṣṇa. We have to serve. You cannot

avoid this. If you do not serve Kṛṣṇa, then you will have to serve

māyā. That’s all. But you have to serve. So in that respect, if we do

not know who is the best master, then we will have to serve our

senses, our lusty desires. If I do not become servant of Kṛṣṇa, then I

shall become full of desire, to my lusty desires for sex life. I have to

become servant. That is a fact. You cannot become master.

Therefore the most intelligent person is he who knows that “Why

shall I serve my lusty desires? Why not serve Kṛṣṇa?” Because I have

to serve. This is intelligence."

 

 

 

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.15.37

by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

Los Angeles, December 15, 1973