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There was an upstart who developed a philosophy of protest against the rule of nature over the living entities. Once, while musing over his ideas he concluded that the sky caused the most problems of all features of nature, because from the sky came thunderstorms, lightning, hurricanes, tornados, hail, sleet and snow. In a sudden frenzy this man jumped from his seat and violently punched the air above his head again and again. For a time he hopped about, flailing away at the sky with his fists while cursing, "Rascal sky! Take this! Take that!" until he fell exhausted to earth, his arms sprained and aching. The sky, needless to say, remained unperturbed at this poor fellow's assault.
Once in a while an individual appears who is convinced that the Hare Krsna movement is the harbinger of all ills in human society. He makes it his mission in life to oppose Krsna consciousness on all fronts, even at the risk of making himself look ridiculous. The efforts of such persons may be compared to the efforts of the wild philosopher to teach the sky a lesson with the use of fists.
A very poor non-Hindu brought a hen to market to sell. He had no experience in bazaar salesmanship, but he observed that the more aged rice, tamarind and ghee was, the bigger price it fetched. Thinking that older goods must be somehow always be more costly, he thought he should advertise his hen as being very, very old. And although he was careful to inform every prospective customer of the dozens of winters this hen had seen, not one of them showed any interest in purchasing the bird once they heard this.
One year passed and the poor man had not yet found a buyer. Finally a friend advised him that people were not interested in buying old hens, though they might like old rice. Hens were sold only when advertised as young.
The poor man thought to himself, "What a fine fix I've put myself in! I've told everyone for one year straight that this hen is the great-great-great grandmother of great flocks of chickens. Now if I turn around and say she's a young virgin, hardly out of the egg herself, they'll laugh."
So when he appeared in the bazaar on the next marketing day, he told everyone that his hen was half-old and half-young. Then they really did have a laugh. And again he found no customers.
This story may be used to illustrate the philosophy of the semi-personalists like Citsukhananda who claim that when Brahman appears on earth, He does not assume a physical body but reveals a spiritual form. However, when He returns to the spiritual sky, He resumes His original impersonal formless feature.
There are also mixed-up Gaudiya devotees of Lord Caitanya who will not worship Lord Nityananda, and vice versa. And there are those who worship Guru without Gouranga, Gouranga without Guru, or the Vaisnavas without Visnu, or Visnu without Vaisnavas. The half-young, half-old fallacy applies to them as well.
Once a man fell into a deep well. There was no way for him to free himself. He shouted for help, and finally a kind-hearted passerby flung a rope down to him, telling him "Just hold tightly to this rope and I will pull you up."
The man shouted back, "Help me to hold the rope!"
The kind hearted passerby represents the spiritual master, who gives the means by which the conditioned soul may become free of material existence. But it is not that the conditioned soul should do nothing to free himself. He must strongly cling to the mercy of his spiritual master; only then can he be elevated. If, for instance, he thinks that he need not chant the Hare Krsna Mahamantra given by the spiritual master, that the spiritual master will chant it for him, then he can never get free of maya.
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