bhakti busana swami tells a story

in his sunday feast class maharaja had made a point, that every living entity has to fight for his survival. he said, that when you see a forest from far, you tend to think, that this forest looks very nice. but when you come close, and observe in detail what is going on, you see, that every entity is eaten by another entity.
later on, when we took prasadam,i emphasized maharajas point by telling, that i often go into the eifel, which is a big and beautiful forest, where i am living. somtimes, while strolling, i saw advertisments like: "young bull meat to sell!" they have their bulls on the grazing land which they slaughter. externally it looked quite peaceful seeing the bulls grazing, but in detail, it was quite a hellish place. to even deepen that point, bbswami told the following story:

once, maharaja was guest in a devotees house somwhere in india. maharaja was peacefully sitting in the garden close to the swimming pool, when his attention on chanting was suddenly distracted. he saw, that a mouse had fallen into the pool and was fighting for her life. she tried to climb out of the water but was not able to pull herself out of the water. she now was about to drown and harrowingly die.
bbswami immediately took a twig of a tree and reached out to the mouse, who with last power climbed onto the stick, so maharaja could pull her out. it seemed,he saved her life.
the little mouse was still shaking of her near death experience, when suddenly a big falcon rushed out of the sky. with his mighty claws, he grabbed the poor mouse from the stick. only seconds later he was again gone up into the sky ready to finally kill the poor mouse and have her for lunch.
there is simply no place in this material world, which is safe.

prabhupada said, we shoud chant, like a child is crying for his mother.

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