Stories told by Śrīla Prabhupāda
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There was once a hunter who wanted to practice shooting. He took some birds and released them. The birds flew away and all of them were shot, but one bird was very cunning and instead of flying away he placed himself down at the feet of the hunter. Being so situated the hunter could not shoot the bird without harming his own feet.

The moral is instead of flying away from Krishna and being shot down by maya, we should take shelter of Krishna’s lotus feet and then maya cannot touch us.

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