Are you a honey bee or a fly?

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Are You a Honey Bee or a Fly?

8 February 2025

On 18 November 1971 in New Delhi, India Srila Prabhupada wrote the following to his disciple Badrinarayana Das:

"The difference between a devotee and a nondevotee is this, just like the bee and the fly: the bee always is attracted by the honey and flies go to the open sores. So the devotee is only attracted by the good qualities in other people and does not see their faults. He is friend to everyone and in this way he finds his life sublime."

So each of us must analyze whether we are flies or are we honey bees.

(This does not mean that our spiritual superiors cannot find fault with us. This is their loving kindness to do so to help us advance in Krishna consciousness. Sometimes the foolish fly-like neophytes find fault with their superiors for pointing out their faults. This is vaisnava-aparadha and blocks their advancement on the path of Krishna bhakti.)

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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Transcendental Correspondence

Hare Ram Hare Krishna.
I want to know why this place of misery, this universe, was created by the creator.? OR whether after creation living beings became miserable by not performing bhakti.

Dr, Jag Jeevan

Answer

From: Sri Vrindavan Dhama, India

My Dear Dr. Jag Jeevan,

Please accept my blessings.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Because we stubbornly wanted to try to enjoy separately from Krishna, He gave us the facility to try to do that here in this material world. Srila Prabhupada has explained it in this way in a lecture given on 27 June 1974 in Melbourne, Australia:

You forced Kṛṣṇa to allow you to come. Just like sometimes a child forces the father. Father says, "My dear son, do not do this. Do not go there." But he insists, "Father, I must go. I must go." "All right, you go at your risk." That's all. And you suffer. What can be done? Because you are son of God—God has got independence, full independence, almighty—therefore you have acquired the quality of your father. You have got little independence. So God does not interfere with your little independence. If you persist, that "I must go and enjoy independently," so God says, "All right, you can go." This is the position. You have to take sanction. That is a fact. But when you persist, God sanctions. And you come and enjoy. Beginning from Lord Brahmā down to the worms in the stool, gradually, according to your work, according to your desire, you manufacture your different types of body and enjoy and suffer.


I hope this meets you in the best of health.
Your ever well-wisher,
Sankarshan Das Adhikari


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