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So for a human being both the big animal and a small animal, they are animals, although the small animals praise the big animal

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"So for a human being, both the big animal and a small animal, they are animals, although the small animals praise the big animal"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1975 Conversations and Morning Walks

So for a human being, both the big animal and a small animal, they are animals, although the small animals praise the big animal.

Prabhupāda: Yes. That is stated in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam: sva-viḍ-varāhoṣṭra-kharaiḥ saṁstutaḥ puruṣaḥ paśuḥ (SB 2.3.19). The same example. A lion is accepted as the king. He is considered to be the king of the beasts in the forest. And he is very much praised. But a human being will see that the lion is also an animal, and those who are praising him, they are also animals. Is it not? So if some animals praises another animal, does it mean that the animal is very big? It may be very big for these animals, but lion is not very big thing to the human being. They can capture it. It is nothing. Actually, they capture and keep it in the zoo. So for a human being, both the big animal and a small animal, they are animals, although the small animals praise the big animal. Do you follow what I say?

Dr. Judah: Yes.

Prabhupāda: So here a big animal is being praised by a small animal, but both of them are animals.

Revatīnandana: So in other words, the big leaders and the scientists, they are thinking that "When I am president or when I am scientist—then this time we have landed on Venus—I will be praised."

Prabhupāda: Yes, but who will praise?

Revatīnandana: By other animals.

Prabhupāda: By other animals. Not a human being.

Revatīnandana: Right. But they're thinking, "I will become great," even though we know they are not great.

Prabhupāda: No, how they will know? He is animal. How he can know his position? And especially when the other small animals praise him, he thinks that "I have become very big."

Page Title:So for a human being both the big animal and a small animal, they are animals, although the small animals praise the big animal
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Created:2022-10-27, 14:55:02
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