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facing difficulty in understanding one of the lines of Srila Prabhupada

Posted by Priyanshu Singh on August 6, 2025 at 5:16pm in Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krishna 

please accept my humble obeisances 

all glories to Srila Prabhupada

 

I'm facing difficulty in understanding one of the lines of Srila Prabhupada,

Like an animal, he has no proprietorship even over his own body. A cruel proprietor of an animal sometimes kills the animal in his possession, yet the animal does not protest. Nor does it have any real independence (bg, 4.21 purport)

Why srila prabhupada compares krishna conscious man to an animal? Krishna conscious person has no real independence? Why so tough analogy?

i'm unable to understand this line in overall

dear devotees please help me to reconcile this 🙏🙇‍♂️

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  • Jan Mares August 7, 2025 at 1:33pm

    Fully KC person is immersed in Sri Krisna seva in a total dependence on the Lord.
    Tapa (skin branding used in Ramanuja and Madhva sampradaya) and tilak are analogous to animal branding showing ownership. Vaisnava tilaks are variations of U/V, standing for "Visnu".

    Hari Hari
    ys J.

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