70 Sri Isopanisad

that such worship of the masses is not possible, nor are the
masses perfect. This is something like pouring water on the
leaves of the tree, instead of watering the root. The natural
process of worship is to pour water on the root of the tree from
which the leaves grow. But today’s disturbed leaders become
more attracted by the leaves than the root, and therefore, in
spite of perpetually watering the leaves, all is drying up for
want of nourishment.

Sri Isopanisad advises us to pour water on the rool, the
Source of all germination. Worshiping the mass population by
rendering bodily service which can never be perfect is less
important than service to the soul. The soul is the rool generating
different types of bodies in terms of the law of karma, or
material reaction. To serve only the human being by medical aids,
social amenities and educational facilities, while cutting the
throats of poor animals in slaughterhouses, does not add up to

any valid service to the living beings.

The living being is perpetually suffering from the material
disease of birth, death, old age and disease, in different types of
body. The human form of life is a chance to get out of this
entanglement of material existence. This can be done simply by
re-establishing the lost relationship of the living entity with the -
Supreme Lord. And the Lord comes personally to teach us this
philosophy of surrender unto the Supreme, the Sambhitam.
Real service to humankind is to teach surrender unto the
Supreme Lord, and to worship Him only, with full love and
energy. That is the instruction of Sri [opanisad in this mantra.

The simple way to worship the Supreme Lord in this age of
disturbance is to hear and chant about Ilis great activities. The
mental speculators, however, think of the activities of the Lord
as imaginary, and therefore they refrain from any such hearing
process, and invent some jugglery of words, without any
substance, to divert the attention of the poor innocent mass of
people. Instead of hearing the activities of Lord Krsna, they

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