Life is about Sacrifice not Selfishness

2013-06-04
Srimad Bhagavatam 10.20.37 - Life is about Sacrifice not Selfishness (download mp3)
by Vrajavasi Prabhu at ISKCON Chowpatty
www.iskcondesiretree.net

SB 10.20.37
naivavidan ksiyamanam
 jalam gadha-jale-carah
yathayur anv-aham ksayyam
 nara mudhah kutumbinah

Translation:

The fish swimming in the increasingly shallow water did not at all understand that the water was diminishing, just as foolish family men cannot see how the time they have left to live is diminishing with every passing day.

Purport:

After the rainy season the water gradually goes down, but stupid fish do not understand this; thus they are often stranded on the lakeshores and riverbanks. Similarly, those infatuated with family life do not understand that the remainder of their life is constantly decreasing; thus they fail to perfect their Krsna consciousness and are stranded in the cycle of birth and death.