Ass, by Javier Figuerola or Haripada dasa
With love and trust I share this beautiful and practical verse from Srimad Bhagavatam, 2.3.19, and is the translation of the meaning of our spiritual master Srila Prabhupada. Translation:
Men who are like dogs, pigs, camels and asses praise those men who never listen to the narrations of the transcendental pastimes of God or Krishna, He delivers from all evil.
Part of the meaning:
The donkey is a famous animal as the greatest of all silly, even among animals. The ass works very hard and carries heavy loads without profit to himself. Human life is to get values. This life is called arthadam, or that which can provide values. And what is the best value you can get in life? The return home, back to God, as stated in the Bhagavad-gita, (8, 15). Selfishness one must aim at going back to God. The donkey does not know what suits you, and work very hard just to others. A person who works hard only for others, forgetting the staff well you can get in the human form of life, is like the donkey. In the Brahma-vaivarta Purana it says that human life is so important that even the demigods in the higher sometimes planets aspire to have a human body on this Earth, because only in the human body can one go back to God easily. If despite having obtained such an important body, one does not restore the eternal relationship with Govinda, Lord Krishna, a relationship that is lost, no doubt that one is a necioque has forgotten what suits you. This material body in human form is obtained through a gradual process of evolution from one body to another, in the cycle of life 8400.000 varieties. And the poor man, forgetting how important it is his own, becomes entangled in many illusory to raise the position of others, as leader of the political emancipation and economic development occupations. There is nothing wrong with trying to achieve political emancipation and economic development, but one should not forget the true purpose of life, all these philanthropic activities must be coupled to the return to God. One who does not know this is like the donkey, who works only for others, without thinking of neither good nor them your own. Usually, the donkey is used by the washerman, whose social position is not very respectable. And the characteristic quality of the donkey is that it is very used to being kicked by the opposite sex. When the ass begs a sexual relationship, is kicked by the weaker, more sex, however, it follows the female after sexual pleasure. So a man who is henpecked, is said to be like the ass. The generality of the people work hard, especially in the age of Kali. In this age the human being is in fact dedicated to work ass, carrying heavy loads and driving human-powered vehicles. The supposed progress of human civilization has occupied the human being at work ass. The workers in large factories and workshops are also dedicated to the hard work, and after working hard during the day, the poor worker has to be kicked again, this time for the fair sex, not only for the sake of sexual enjoyment, but also by many household affairs.
So, the categorization Srimad-Bhagavatam makes the common man without any spiritual enlightenment, placing it in the society of dogs, pigs, camels and donkeys, is not at all an exaggeration. The leaders of those ignorant masses of people may feel very proud to be worshiped by the large number of dogs and pigs, but that's not very flattering. The Bhāgavatam openly declares that although a person a great leader of that class of dogs and pigs dressed as men, if not feel pleasure in being illuminated with respect to the science of Krishna, such a leader is also an animal, and nothing else . You may designate it as a strong and powerful animal, or a large animal, but in the Srimad-Bhagavatam opinion is never given a place in the category of men, by their atheistic way of being. Or, in other words, those leaders of dogs and pigs men are atheists larger animals, with the qualities of animals in greater proportion.
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With love and trust I share this beautiful and practical verse from Srimad Bhagavatam, 2.3.19, and is the translation of the meaning of our spiritual master Srila Prabhupada. Translation:
Men who are like dogs, pigs, camels and asses praise those men who never listen to the narrations of the transcendental pastimes of God or Krishna, He delivers from all evil.
Part of the meaning:
The donkey is a famous animal as the greatest of all silly, even among animals. The ass works very hard and carries heavy loads without profit to himself. Human life is to get values. This life is called arthadam, or that which can provide values. And what is the best value you can get in life? The return home, back to God, as stated in the Bhagavad-gita, (8, 15). Selfishness one must aim at going back to God. The donkey does not know what suits you, and work very hard just to others. A person who works hard only for others, forgetting the staff well you can get in the human form of life, is like the donkey. In the Brahma-vaivarta Purana it says that human life is so important that even the demigods in the higher sometimes planets aspire to have a human body on this Earth, because only in the human body can one go back to God easily. If despite having obtained such an important body, one does not restore the eternal relationship with Govinda, Lord Krishna, a relationship that is lost, no doubt that one is a necioque has forgotten what suits you. This material body in human form is obtained through a gradual process of evolution from one body to another, in the cycle of life 8400.000 varieties. And the poor man, forgetting how important it is his own, becomes entangled in many illusory to raise the position of others, as leader of the political emancipation and economic development occupations. There is nothing wrong with trying to achieve political emancipation and economic development, but one should not forget the true purpose of life, all these philanthropic activities must be coupled to the return to God. One who does not know this is like the donkey, who works only for others, without thinking of neither good nor them your own. Usually, the donkey is used by the washerman, whose social position is not very respectable. And the characteristic quality of the donkey is that it is very used to being kicked by the opposite sex. When the ass begs a sexual relationship, is kicked by the weaker, more sex, however, it follows the female after sexual pleasure. So a man who is henpecked, is said to be like the ass. The generality of the people work hard, especially in the age of Kali. In this age the human being is in fact dedicated to work ass, carrying heavy loads and driving human-powered vehicles. The supposed progress of human civilization has occupied the human being at work ass. The workers in large factories and workshops are also dedicated to the hard work, and after working hard during the day, the poor worker has to be kicked again, this time for the fair sex, not only for the sake of sexual enjoyment, but also by many household affairs.
So, the categorization Srimad-Bhagavatam makes the common man without any spiritual enlightenment, placing it in the society of dogs, pigs, camels and donkeys, is not at all an exaggeration. The leaders of those ignorant masses of people may feel very proud to be worshiped by the large number of dogs and pigs, but that's not very flattering. The Bhāgavatam openly declares that although a person a great leader of that class of dogs and pigs dressed as men, if not feel pleasure in being illuminated with respect to the science of Krishna, such a leader is also an animal, and nothing else . You may designate it as a strong and powerful animal, or a large animal, but in the Srimad-Bhagavatam opinion is never given a place in the category of men, by their atheistic way of being. Or, in other words, those leaders of dogs and pigs men are atheists larger animals, with the qualities of animals in greater proportion.
http // http // alimentosparalapaz.blogspot.com prabhupadanugas108.blogspot.com
www.vedabase.com
