Capacity To Study Nature

So it is Pariksit Maharaja. He is very intelligent devotee. He is criticizing this atonement process—“Whole week I have done all sinful activities, and on Sunday I go to church and pay some fine, and again, from Monday, I begin my business.”

Punah punah, again and again. So this business will not help us, because the…, I may commit some sinful activities, and repenting, I pay some fine or some prayascitta, but my heart is not cleansed. That is required. The heart is filled up with all dirty things. What it will give me benefit if formally I give some fine as atonement? Pariksit Maharaja is rejecting this process, “This will not help.” And he has given very good example: kunjara-saucavat. From nature we can study so many things, very instructive. Krsna has made the nature in such a way that any intelligent man, if he studies simply the nature, without going into school or college he becomes a very learned man, if he has got the capacity to study nature. So such nature, a natural instance, example, is cited: kunjara-saucavat. Kunjara means elephant. Elephant is a very big animal, and it takes bath in the lake, very nicely washes the body. Then, as soon as he comes on the bank, he immediately takes some dust and throw it over the body. Those who have seen the elephants… This is their nature.

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So these people may be very big men, very big animal, but their intelligence is lacking. The intelligence is that “Why I am put into miserable condition of life?” That is intelligence. That intelligence was found in the life of Sanatana Gosvami. When he first met Caitanya Mahaprabhu, his spiritual master, the first question was that “I am considered as very learned scholar and very good administrator.” Gramya-vyavahare kahe pandita, satya kori mani. “And some, my ignorant friends, they call me I am very big man, very learned man.” But apanara hitahita kichui na jani: “Unfortunately, I do not know how to get out of this material condition of life. I do not know.” So that is the position, everyone. We are big, big scientist, big, big philosophers, big, big statesmen, politician, but I do not know why I am forced to die. Big, big scientists, they are discovering so many things, but he cannot discover something which will stop his death. That is not possible. So punah punas carvita-carvananam [SB 7.5.30]

Srimad-Bhagavatam 6.1.10
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Los Angeles, June 23, 1975