As an affectionate friend or envious enemy, we have got some relationship. With everyone with this world we have got some. Either it may be affectionate or envy; it doesn’t matter. So in this way we are living forgetting that death is ahead. Therefore we are mudha. Mudha means rascal, ass, who does not know what is actual interest. Just like ass. Ass, the… Mudha means ass. The ass does not know his own interest. We have seen that ass is loaded with three tons of cloth by the washerman, and he cannot go; still, he has to do it. And he does not know that, “I am loading so many tons of cloth on my back, and what interest I have got with it? Not a single cloth belongs to me.” So the ass has no such sense. Ass means he has no such sense. He is thinking, “It is my duty. To load upon me so much clothing, it is my duty.” Why it is duty? Now, “Because the washerman gives you grass.” So he has no sense that “Grass I can get anywhere. Why I have taken this duty?” This is the… Everyone is anxious about his duty. Somebody is politician, somebody is householder, somebody is something else. Because he has taken up some false duty and working hard for it, therefore he is an ass. He is forgetting his real business. Real business is that death will come. It will not avoid me. Everyone says, “As sure as death.” Now, before death, I have to act in such a way that I may have a position in Vaikuntha, in Vrndavana, and I may have permanent life to live with Krsna. This is our real duty.
Srimad-Bhagavatam 6.1.26
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Philadelphia, July 12, 1975
pamho agtACBSP, VARDHINI MAHA DVADASI KI JAI FASTING FOR INDIRA EKADASI KI JAI,nice aticle thank you for posting it,it look like if is been posted for a mudha like me who is waiting with patience to be called by SRI SRI GURU GAURANGA to become a krsna conscious living entity,is not worthy to lament about the troublesome karma that we got because at the end everything get forgot,that maya devi picture above also look like a donkey in the guise of a very attractive female, and until we remain mudhas we will be always attract by such attractive fake images yes is true we must learn how to keep balance by avoiding to get involve in more suffering we are not this mudhas although around us there are only mudhas at the present moment is not just me but everyone is in the same boat more or less,anyway good luck to everyone by forgetting the horrible situation we are passing through at the moment,agtSP ys haribol