AGAIN BECOME A RAT

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Unfortunately, at the present moment

in every state and every society people are trying to forget God. Some

people publicly say there is no God; others say that if there is a God, He is dead;

and so on. They have built such a so-called advanced civilization, with so many

skyscraper buildings, but they are forgetting that all of their

advancement is dependent on God, on Krsna. This is a very precarious condition for the

human society.

There is a very nice story that

describes what happens to a society that forgets the Supreme Personality of

Godhead. Once a rat was being troubled by a

cat. So the rat went to a saintly personwho had mystic powers and said,

"My dear sir, I am very much troubled."

"What is the difficulty?"The rat said, "A cat always

chases me, so I have no peace of mind.""Then what do you want?""Please make me into a

cat.""All right, become a cat."After a few days, the cat came to the

saintly person and said, "My dear sir,again I am in trouble.""What is that trouble?""The dogs are chasing me.""Then what do you want?""Make me a dog.""All right, become a dog."Then after a few days the dog came

and said, "Sir, again I am in trouble.""What is the trouble?""The foxes are chasing

me.""Then what do you want?""To become a fox.""All right, become a fox."Then the fox came and said,

"Oh, tigers are chasing me.""Then what do you want?""I want to become a

tiger.""All right, become a

tiger."Now the tiger began to stare at the

saintly person. "I shall eat you," the tiger said.

"Oh, you shall eat me? I have

made you a tiger, and you want to eat me!Yes, I am a tiger, and now I

shall eat you." Then the saintly person cursed him:

"Again become a rat!" And the tiger became a rat. So, our human civilization is like

this. The other day I was reading the World Almanac. It said that within

the next hundred years people will be living underground--like rats. Scientific

advancement has created the atomic bomb to kill men, and when it will be used

people will have to go underground and become like rats. From tiger to rat. That

is going to happen; it is nature's law. If you defy the laws of your state,

you will be put into difficulty. Similarly, if you continue to defy

the authority of the Supreme Lord, you will suffer. Again you will become rats.

As soon as the atomic bombs explode, all civilization on the surface of the

globe will be finished. You may not like to think about these things--you may

regard them as very unpalatable--but these are the facts.Satyam grhyat priyam

grhyan ma priyah satyam apriyam. It is a social convention that if you want to speak

the truth you should speak it very palatably. But we are not meant for

social convention. We are preachers, servants of God, and we must speak

the real truth, whether you like it or not. A godless civilization cannot be

happy. That is a fact. So we have started the Krsna consciousness movement to

awaken this godless civilization. Just try to love God; this is our simple

request. You have love within you--you want to love somebody. A young boy tries to

love a young girl; a young girl tries to love a young boy. This is natural,

because the loving propensity is within everybody. But we have created

circumstances in which our love is being frustrated. Everyone is

frustrated--husbands, wives, boys, girls. Everywhere there is frustration, because our

loving propensity is not being utilized properly. Why? Because we have

forgotten to love the Supreme Person. That is our disease.FOR THE COMPLETE BOOK "THE JOURNEY OF SELF DISCOVERY" WRITE TO ME AT chanu15

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