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Stories told by Śrīla Prabhupāda
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| Here is another story called “Increasing the fever”. There was once a doctor visiting a house to diagnose two patients. Rich house wife and a maidservant. The doctor said: “The maidservant’s fever is 100.5º.” This is in Fahrenheit. So in Fahrenheit scale the normal body temperature is 98.6º. So 100.5º is high. Doctor said: “This maidservant’s fever is 100.5º, so there is some anxiety. I will give her some medicine. But the landlady of the house is practically no fever, 99º. So there is no anxiety for her.” But when the landlady heard this she became angry and said: “This doctor is useless. I am the landlady, I’ve got only 99º and my maidservant has 100.5º. The maidservant should have 98 and I should have 110”.
| | The moral is the modern civilization is inclined to increase the degree of its fever up to 110º. As in the human body, there is death as soon as the temperature reaches 107º, so by the nuclear weapons modern civilization will come to the point of 107º and over. But devotees want to decrease the fever by living the highest ideal life and decreasing the demands of the body. So this increase of fever refers to increasing all the unnecessary paraphernalia for sense gratification, people are working so hard to accumulate more and more useless things just to enjoy their senses in an animalistic way. So the whole society is aimed at that and they think this is progress. So this story very nicely illustrates that that type of progress simply leads to death.
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