Snakebite (Conv and Letters)

Expressions researched:
"He will feel pleasure, biting you" |"Similarly, the snake" |"Snake will kill, unnecessarily bite and kill" |"bitten by a poisonous snake" |"bitten by so many types of Maya snakes" |"snake bite" |"snake bites" |"snake-bird, or anything may come and bite" |"snake-bite" |"snake-bitten" |"snake-bitten"

1969 Conversations and Morning Walks

The snake will do like this and crawling, and He would see it, He would strike. In this way the snake was playing and the mother became so much afraid. They cannot touch. If the snake bites... So they simply saw that the child is playing with the snake, and after some time the snake went away.

Lord Caitanya Play Told to Tamala Krsna -- August 4, 1969, Los Angeles:

Prabhupāda: Yes. That was not on that day, but when He was little grown up. As soon as He would cry, so the neighboring friends of His mother, all young girls would come and chant Hare Kṛṣṇa and He'll stop. Sometimes they would tease Him so that He may cry, and they'll see that He's crying, and they'll chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, and He'll stop. Again tease. (laughs) So that Caitanya Mahāprabhu was preaching Hare Kṛṣṇa chanting by His childhood activities.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: What are some of the things that He did when He was a little boy? Some tricks or things?
Prabhupāda: Sometimes He would play with snakes. One day, when He was crawling in the courtyard... Indian house... As, just like here is compound outside. In Indian house there is courtyard inside. So He was crawling in the yard, and a snake came, a snake. And He began to play with the snake. The snake will do like this and crawling, and He would see it, He would strike. In this way the snake was playing and the mother became so much afraid. They cannot touch. If the snake bites... So they simply saw that the child is playing with the snake, and after some time the snake went away. And they took up the child, "Oh, God has saved this child, otherwise He would have been killed. Such a venomous, big snake."
Govinda dāsī: It was a big snake? Very big? And was it Śeṣa?
Prabhupāda: That is another thing. It may be understood that he was Śeṣa, but that was the incident.

1973 Conversations and Morning Walks

Even one hundredth part of one grain, venomous poison, how it acts? So even nobody can see it, when the snake bites, nobody can see where is that... How he dies?.

Morning Walk At Cheviot Hills Golf Course -- May 15, 1973, Los Angeles:

Svarūpa Dāmodara: No, once they see the spirit soul, they can detect somehow, then they are definitely convinced.
Prabhupāda: So how you can see? It is... The measurement is given, 1/10,000th part of the tip of the hair. So where is your seeing power?
Svarūpa Dāmodara: Still they want to sense it by some...
Prabhupāda: Sense, that is... Any rascal can sense that here is living energy. That is spirit soul. Just like if you inject one grain of poison and immediately he dies, does it require how he dies? That one, not one grain. Even one hundredth part of one grain, venomous poison, how it acts? So even nobody can see it, when the snake bites, nobody can see where is that... How he dies?
Svarūpa Dāmodara: They will explain that by..., it blocks some of the metabolic paths...
Prabhupāda: That's all right, but it is acting. That is my point. You can explain in your nonsense way, this, so many things. But I see that because that very little portion of poison is there, immediately he dies. Why don't you see the action?