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PRABHUPĀDA: You can do it immediately, but unfortunately you’ll not do it. What can be
done? There is a story, I may narrate it. One poor man was begging on the street, and Lord
Śiva and Pārvatī was passing as ordinary man. So Pārvatī requested Lord Śiva that this
poor man, he’s asking, he’s begging, so requested him, “Why don’t you give him
something?” And Lord Śiva replied, “Even if I give, he’ll not be able to enjoy it. He’s so
unfortunate.” “Oh, that we shall see. Why don’t you give?” So Lord Śiva, in a watermelon, gave
him, say, one thousand dollars. “You take this watermelon.” So he thanked him, and after that
he thought “What I shall do with this watermelon?” So another man came, “Sir, if you take this
watermelon and give me one anna.” So he gave one anna and he took it. Because he had no
good fortune to take that money within the watermelon. Out fortune is like that. Kṛṣṇa is
giving us the final benefit, but we are not taking care of. This is our misfortune.
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