Prabhupada, April 5, 1956: It is said in the Bhagwat Geeta that simply by surrendering oneself unto the lotus feet of the Personality of Godhead, one can surmount the stringent laws of material nature. And therefore a question arises here how is that many educated philosophers, scientist, lawyers, businessmen, administrators and all such men who are practically the heads and leaders of ordinary men—do not surrender to the lotus feet of Shri Krishna the all-powerful Personality of Godhead?
The answer is that those who are really learned leaders of society like Brahma, Shiva, Kapila, Kumara, Manu, Narada, Vyasa, Devala, Ashita, Janaka, Prahlada, Bali, and later on Madhyacharya, Ramanujacharya, Shri Chaitanya and many others in the line who are faithful philosophers, politicians, educationists, scientists etc., do certainly surrender unto the lotus feet of the Supreme Person, the all-powerful authority.
Whenever you meet such foolish worker, working very hard day and night for clearing the burden of his self-created duties, you will find him saying that he has no time to hear anything about the immortal part of the living being. To such Mudhas, material gain, which are destructible, are all in all although the Mudha enjoys a very small fraction of the fruit of his labour. Such foolish fruitive worker will remain satisfied even without sleeping for days and months together and due to some indigestive disease, will remain satisfied practically without food and yet he would like to work hard day and night for the benefit of his created masters at home and abroad. Without the knowledge of his real master the foolish worker will waste his valuable time for something which is not his master. That is his illusion and he will never surrender to the Supreme Master of all masters, neither he will have time to hear about his real master in the proper channel. The Swine who eats the night soil will not care to accept sweet meats made of Sugar and Ghee. Such foolish worker will go on hearing continuously sense-enjoyable tidings of the flickering mundane world, but will have very little time to hear about the eternal living force of the mundane world.
The Mudhas or those who are grossly foolish, like the hard working beasts of burden. They want to enjoy the fruits of their labour, by themselves and do not want to part with them for the Supreme. The typical example of the beast of burden is an ass. This humble creature is made to work very hard by the illusory method of its master the washerman. The ass does not know for whom he works so hard day and night. He remains satisfied by filling his stomach with a bundle of grass (fooding), sleeping for a while under a fear of being beaten by the washerman and by satisfying his sex-appetite even at the risk of being repeatedly kicked by the opposite party. The ass sings poetry and philosophy also sometime, creating a rabid disturbance to the whole quarter; that is the position of the foolish fruitive worker who does not know for whom he should work. He does not know that Karma is meant for Jajna. (yajnarthe karmam)
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