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It so happened that a frog found a half-rupee coin at the bottom of his pond. He seized it and thought, "Is there anyone who is as rich as I am now? So now I shall claim what is rightfully mine. This pond belongs to me alone!" Clutching the half-rupee coin tightly, the frog sat in the middle of a landing which was used by the king's elephant when he visited the pond to drink and bathe.
Soon the royal elephant-keeper lead the king's own tusker to the landing. The frog puffed himself up and held up the halfrupee coin. He shouted, "Halt and turn back, you fat fool! I am the lord of this pond, and you are henceforward forbidden to set foot here--"
Without paying attention to him, the elephant set his foot upon that frog's body, crushed him flat and entered the pond for his bath.
And so the insignificant jiva declares himself lord and master of all he surveys on the strength of something that is really valueless. Wealth, power, fame, beauty, knowledge, artistic talent or any other gift of material nature is impermanent--so what value will the attainment of these have for the eternal spirit soul? How foolish we are to become puffed-up due to these "anarthas" (valueless acquisitions). And how foolish we are to declare the products of material nature (over which we have no control) to belong to us alone. His mind inflamed by the infections of "I" and "mine", the ignorant living entity rushes headlong to his death, thinking that he is so great that even death must give way.
A woodcutter decided to journey to the great Sundarban forest to collect a big load of wood. A friend warned him that the Sundarban is filled with wild animals. "You should not fail to take a weapon with you," his friend advised.
The woodcutter snorted, "I am an experienced woodsman. Your advice that I should take a weapon with me to the forest is like asking a man from Newcastle to bring a load of coal with him when he returns to his home city. The forest is filled with trees, and the trees possess hard and stout branches. If any beast comes to threaten me, I'll saw off a branch and use it to frighten him off."
And so, while the woodsman was in the midst of the Sundarban, a man-eating tiger gave him the opportunity to put into practice his boast. As the tiger bounded out of the underbrush, the woodsman flailed away at a branch of a tree with his saw. But he had hardly cut through the bark before the tiger seized him by the neck and killed him.
Yogis who hope to conquer their senses by the strength of their senses put themselves in exactly the same position as this unfortunate woodsman. While struggling to execute a posture or a breathing exercise, the yogi may at any moment be overwhelmed by an attack of six enemies: lust, anger, greed, illusion, pride and envy.
On the other hand, a devotee subdues these dangerous enemies by turning them over to Krsna's control. Lust becomes subservient to the transcendental Kamadeva, anger is used against atheists, greed is directed to hearing about Krsna, illusion is transformed into infatutation for serving Krsna, pride becomes absorbtion in one's true identity (rather than the false identity of the body) and envy simply cannot remain, because a devotee is full of compassion to everyone.
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