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Issue No. 425 Śrī Padminī Ekādaśī 25 May 2018 Circulation 9,235
• A Monkey’s Dharma
Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Swami Maharaja
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Issue Four Hundred Twenty-five, Page — 2
just to give me the opportunity to serve Him.” When Once a man was passing through a dense
this conviction becomes prominent in our minds, jungle that was full of ferocious animals such
then, according to the logic that “A learned person as tigers, and lions. A tiger attacked that man
sees everyone equally. Therefore, I can perceive but he climbed up a tree and saved his life. This
my worshipable Lord everywhere,” we will find our tiger had developed greed to drink human blood,
external, inferior, worldly vision cleared. At that time I so he sat down under the tree. Then the tiger
will consider the entire world to be full of happiness. noticed a monkey in the tree. He told the monkey,
— Amṛta Vāṇī, page 77. Compiled by Sripad Bhakti Bhagavat
Mayukha Maharaja. Published by Isvara Das and Touchstone Media.
Mumbai, India. 2004.
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