Prabhupada, Philosophy Discussions: […] There is a story that one king, he had ministers, a prime minister, so other salaried workers complained, “Sir, we are actually working. This minister is giving nothing, you are giving him so much salary. We are so underpaid.
So, “Oh, all right.” So he called the minister, and brought one elephant. “Please immediately take this elephant and let me know what is the weight. Take this elephant. Weigh him.” So they went to…All market, they went to find out a scale, how to weigh this. Where is the scale for weighing an elephant? So they could not do anything. They came back.
“What happened?” “Sir, we could not get such a scale.” “Oh, you could not weigh? All right. Minister, will you kindly weigh this elephant?” “Yes, sir.” “All right, take it.” So within six minutes he said, “It is twenty mounds,” and like that. You see? So they were standing. They were surprised: “How is that? Within some minutes he came back and he said the exact weight.”
So king asked that “How did you weigh? Did you get some very big scale?” “No sir. It is not possible to weigh the elephant in the scale. Very difficult.” “Then how did you weigh?” “Yes, I took it in a boat. I got it on the boat. I saw the water mark, and I marked it, and then, after getting down the elephant, I put weight on it. So when it came to that water mark, I understood.”
So the king said, “Now you see the difference?” They agreed, “Yes.” Buddhir yasya balam tasya nirbuddhes tu kuto balam: “One who has got intelligence, he has got strength, and one who has got no intelligence, rascal fool, what strength there is?” These people are like that, rascal fools. We don’t take advice from them. We take advice from Krishna or His representative. Full Discussion
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