Elephant (BG Lectures)

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures

Just like the elephant, it eats voraciously, but it gives service also.

Lecture on BG 1.15 -- London, July 15, 1973:

So Vṛkodara, Bhīmasena, is advertised as voracious eater. But he can perform Herculean task also. Just like the elephant, it eats voraciously, but it gives service also. Similarly if we simply eat voraciously and we cannot give any service that is not good. We must eat sumptuously and give service also. In Bengali it is said that peṭe keli piṭhe soya (?). If one is given sufficient food in the belly, he can carry more burden on the back. So Bhīma-karma, his activities were very Herculean, very, very, difficult tasks he performed.