The Roads of the Foolish and the Wise 55

all right and consider it to be the ordinary course of
things. We have become very proud of our educa-
tion, but we tell material nature, “Thank you very
much for kicking me. Now please continue.” Thus
deluded, we think that we have even conquered
material nature. But how is this so? Nature is still
inflicting upon us the miseries of birth, old age,
disease and death. Has any one solved these prob-
lems? Then what advancement have we really made
in knowledge and civilization? We are under the
stringent rules of material nature, but still we are
thinking that we have conquered. This is called maya.

There may be some difficulty in surrendering to
the father of this body, for he has limited knowledge
and power, but Krsna is not like an ordinary father.
Krsna is unlimited and has full knowledge, full
power, full wealth, full beauty, full fame and full
renunciation. Shouldn’t we consider ourselves lucky
to go to such a father and enjoy His property? Yet
no one seems to care about this, and now everyone
is making propaganda that there is no God. Why do
people not seek Him out? The answer is given in the
next verse of Bhagavad-gita:

na mam duskrtino mudhah
prapadyante naradhamah

mayayapahrta-jiana
asuram bhavam asritah

“Those miscreants who are grossly foolish, lowest
among mankind, whose knowledge is stolen by
illusion, and who partake of the atheistic nature of
demons, do not surrender unto Me.” (Bg. 7.15)
