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Stories told by Śrīla Prabhupāda
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| The next one is called “The logical bull”. There was a logician, who went to purchase some flour from the miller. The miller asked him to kindly wait for a few moments, because he was just grinding it. The logician noticed that the miler had an ox for turning the millstone. That ox would walk in a circle and it was connected to the stone and thus the grains would be ground. And on the neck of the ox, there was a big bell. As the ox walked along the bell would ring. In the meantime the ox was walking miller went into the house. Then he returned and gathered some fresh ground flour into a sack and gave it to the logician. “I have one question for you,” asked the logician. “A question for me?” the miller replied. “I am simply a farmer. What do I know of your scholarly questions”. “No, no, this is a question about your line of work. Tell me, why do you keep this bell on the neck of the ox?” And the miller replied: “Oh you see, that way I can do other things. When that ox walks turning the stone in my house I can hear the bell. If I hear no bell, I come out and take the stick and give him a whack and get him walking again. Otherwise if I just had to stay here and watch if he was walking or not, then so much other responsibilities would not be accomplished.” Then the logician asked: “What if that ox would just stand still and shake his neck like this and ring the bell?” The farmer replied: “Oh, that’s no problem, because he is a bull, he is not a logician like you.”
| | The moral is: too much intelligence is dangerous sometimes, because it can be used for thinking how can I avoid work, or how can I avoid to surrender to Krishna, like that.
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