Big Big Monkey, Big Big Belly

There is a Bengali verse:

Boro boro bandolel boro boro phet,
lanka dingake mata kore het.

"Big, big monkey, big, big belly,
Ceylon jumping, melancholy."

Srila Prabhupada explains it as follows:

"Hanuman, one monkey, he jumped over the Ceylon. So other monkeys also, they were very much proud that a monkey jumped over the ocean. And as soon as he was challenged, 'Can you jump over?' melancholy. Ceylon jumping melancholy. Big, big monkey, big, big belly."
(from a Room Conversation -- July 7, 1976, Baltimore)

This is a good warning for us that we should not become proud, thinking ourselves to be big, big advanced devotees because if we do so, we will not be qualified to cross over the Viraja Ocean and enter into the spiritual world. Therefore we should always consider ourselves to be lower than the straw in the street fully ready to offer our respectful obeisances to others. This humility will keep our hearts soft so our hearts can melt when chanting Hare Krishna.

Hanuman Jumping to Lanka

Hanuman Jumping to Lanka

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Answers by Citing the Vedic Version

Question: Rama in Mahamantra Refers to Krishna or Balarama?

Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

May I ask you a question about mahamantra please? "Rama" in mahamantra always refers to Krishna? "Rama" in mahamantra never refers to Balarama?

Your servant,
Bhakta Ruslan, Kaliningrad (Russia)

Answer: Krishna, Balarama, or Ramacandra

“Rama” in the Hare Krishna mantra refers both to Krishna and Balarama as we as well as to Lord Ramacandra. So if one says that Hare Rama means "O Sri Krishna!" he is right. Similarly, if one says that Hare Rama means "O Sri Balarama!" he is also right. And similarly, if someone calls Lord Ramacandra by the vibration Hare Rama, understanding it to mean "O Lord Ramacandra!" he is also quite right. Those who are aware of the visnu-tattva do not fight over all these details.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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