Expressions researched:
"Monkey's tamo-guna, cow is sattva-guna, and lion is rajo-guna. This is the last animal life before human life"
|"There are three sources: cow, monkey, and lion. This is the last animal life"
Ambarīṣa: I heard once that human beings in the modes of goodness were coming from the cow family or from the cows mostly? If there are so many cows being killed, why aren't there more people in the modes of goodness?
Prabhupāda: Hmm? Now, after the... There are three sources: cow, monkey, and lion. This is the last animal life.
Prabhupāda: For children one anna tiffin is sufficient. One anna. (looking at monkeys) You see?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yeah, a whole family of them. This is their feeding place, the garbage can here. They don't come when they see people, though. Around all the holy places I always see a lot of monkeys and cows in India. Is there some reason, special, about... I mean, cows, there's obvious reason, but what about the monkeys? Why are they around the holy places?
Prabhupāda: Because they are fed by the visitors.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: They like them. The visitors like the monkeys.
Prabhupāda: Here you'll find many of...
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: I remember in the Rādhā-Govinda Temple in Jaipur, oh, the monkeys, they lived there as regular citizens practically. And they're very friendly there. They come up and they hold their hand out.
Prabhupāda: That Kṛṣṇa was giving the monkeys. Monkeys were pet, not as enemy.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Kṛṣṇa treated the monkeys as a pet?
Prabhupāda: Friends.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Friends.
Prabhupāda: He was giving butter. In the forest playing with them.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Imitating also.
Prabhupāda: Playing. If you give them to eat something, they become friendly.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: They're intelligent.
Prabhupāda: Before, it is described, before human birth, monkey, either monkey or lion or cow. Sattva-guṇa, rajo-guṇa, tamo-guṇa. Monkey's tamo-guṇa, cow is sattva-guṇa, and lion is rajo-guṇa. This is the last animal life before human life, gradually. Everything is described. Darwins want to take credit, (laughs) nonsense.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: But he could only see as deep as the body. He could not see it was the soul...
Prabhupāda: Hm. He was rascal speculator. He took the idea from the Vedic literature, and he wanted to take the credit himself, and the different hodgepodge theory, this is... Britishers took the idea from Vedic literature and presented in British way. Britisher wanted that "We are the monopolizers of all scientists, all big men." Sir Isaac Newton, then the, who is that, Darwin, big politicians, Gladstone, everything big-British. They wanted it. "British means all big men. Therefore we must rule over the world." All Lords, Sirs, and this and that... They wanted to prove, "The only big men of the universe, they take birth in England, and therefore we should rule over the world." (laughs) And this was their pledge.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: For a while they did a pretty good job.
Prabhupāda: No, artificially you can do for a while. Unless it is sound footing, it cannot stay. You can cheat some people for some time..., no, all time. You can cheat some people for all time, and all people for some time, not all people for all time. This is the... That was their business, to cheat some people for all time and cheat all people for some time. But not all people for all time. That is not possible.
| Page Title: | Monkey's tamo-guna, cow is sattva-guna, and lion is rajo-guna. This is the last animal life before human life |
| Compiler: | Visnu Murti |
| Created: | 27 of Aug, 2010 |
| Totals by Section: | BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=3, Let=0 |
| No. of Quotes: | 4 |