Excerpt from Life Comes From Life
Śrīla Prabhupāda: A sensible man will take a good lesson, but a rascal will never take a good lesson. There
is a story of a great poet named Kālidāsa, who was a great rascal also.
Once, Kālidāsa was sitting on the branch of a tree and simultaneously
cutting it. A gentleman asked him, "Why are you cutting this tree limb?
You will fall down." Kālidāsa replied, "No, no, I will not fall down." So he kept cutting the
limb, and he fell down. The conclusion is that he was a rascal because
he would not take good advice. By their so-called scientific
advancement, scientists are going to hell. But they do not listen when
they are told; therefore they are rascals. Rascals repeatedly make a
plan, see it frustrated, and again make another plan. This plan is also
frustrated, so they make another plan. Yet when we try to explain to
them that all their materialistic plans will be unsuccessful and
useless, they refuse to listen. That is rascaldom. [-]
Student: Śrīla Prabhupāda, one could say that that is bravery.
Śrīla Prabhupāda: Yes, you can say that, but that bravery is their
rascaldom. They are bravely going to hell, that's all.
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