“Once, while taking a walk with some of his students, Prabhupada stopped and stood, watching a tugboat pull a large ocean vessel backwards into the harbor.”
Hamsaduta dasa, Back to Godhead Magazine, N°56, 1973: […] Srila Prabhupada stayed in Hamburg for about two months, lecturing in English while his German disciple Mandalibhadra translated his words. Prabhupada met with important Sanskrit professors, and he would be seen early in the morning taking his daily walk on Landungsbruecken, the waterfront of Hamburg.
Once, while taking a walk with some of his students, he stopped and stood, watching a tugboat pull a large ocean vessel backwards into the harbor. Suddenly he turned and said, “Just see! A man under the spell of maya [illusion] is just like this big ocean liner. The tugboat is small, but because the big ocean liner has its ship’s motor shut off, it is possible for the little tugboat to drag the big ship helplessly to dock. Similarly, the soul without Krishna is being pulled by maya, down to hell.”
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