|
Stories told by Śrīla Prabhupāda
<< 35 The man who lost his hat >>
 | |
| This is a modern story called “The man who lost his hat”. A man in California was driving to his wedding when suddenly his hat blew off onto the highway. Tucking to the brim of a hat was a 100 dollar bill. So in the middle of traffic that man tried to break his car and jump out to rescue his hat. But just behind him there was a highway patrol police car and the officer, he spoke over the loud speaker and told the man: “Stay in your car, keep moving.” The man obeyed. But on the next exit he turned off to a road side motel, parked his car and he ran out of the car, jumped the fence and ran across the highway through 4 lines of traffic and picked up his hat. Mission accomplished, he ran back into the traffic to go back to his car, so one car was coming and he very expertly dodged it, but he didn’t see another car was coming which killed him.
| | The moral is, in human life we are meant to move straight on the road back home, back to Godhead. But maya, illusion is always trying to divert us, she grabs us by our senses and she pulls us. She gets us thinking about something other than Krishna and we get stock on that and then it’s like when a fish bites the hook and is caught. Maya can just pull us in, pull us right off the path of the devotional service.
|
|
| |
|---|
English
Español
Pусский
Português