Analogies Saunaka Rsi uses to condemn those averse to devotional service

1.     Do the trees not live

1.    Saunaka Rsi compares the long lives that the materialists aspire for with the long lives the trees live. A prolonged life without any devotional service is useless as Sankaracarya lived for 32 years and Lord Caitanya was on this planet for 48 years, on the other hand a materialist may try everything to prolong his life but his life is useless as it is not used for devotional service.

2.    do the beasts not eat and discharge semen?

1.    Saunaka Rsi indicates that persons who are simply engaged in planning a better type of animal life consisting of eating, breathing and mating are also animals in the shape of human beings. A society of such polished animals cannot benefit suffering humanity, for an animal can easily harm another animal but rarely do good.

3.    Men who are like dogs, hogs, camels and asses praise those men who never listen to the transcendental pastimes of Lord Sri Krsna, the deliverer from evils 

1.    As dogs are negligible animals and serve the master faithfully for bits of bread, a man serves a master faithfully without sufficient rewards. 

2.    Persons who have no discrimination in the matter of foodstuff and who eat all sorts of rubbish are compared to hogs. Hogs are very much attached to eating stools.

3.     The camel also sucks its own blood while chewing thorny twigs. The thorns the camel eats cut the tongue of the camel, and so blood begins to flow within the camel’s mouth. The thorns, mixed with fresh blood, create a taste for the foolish camel, and so he enjoys the thorn-eating business with false pleasure.

4.     Similarly, the great business magnates, industrialists who work very hard to earn money by different ways and questionable means, eat the thorny results of their actions mixed with their own blood.

5.     The central point of attraction for material enjoyment is sex life. To enjoy sex life is to suck one’s own blood. The ass works very hard and carries burdens of the maximum weight without making profit for itself.* When the ass begs for sexual intercourse, he is kicked by the fair sex, yet he still follows the female for such sexual pleasure. 

6.    The laborers in great factories and workshops are also engaged in such burdensome work, and after working hard during the day, the poor laborer has to be again kicked by the fair sex, not only for sex enjoyment but also for so many household affairs. In other words, such godless leaders of dogs and hoglike men are bigger animals with the qualities of animals in greater proportion.

4.    earholes like the holes of snakes, tongue like the tongue of a frog.

1.    If the tongue is not engaged in chanting the glories of the Lord then it is considered like the croaking of the frog because such a tongue is just engaged in speaking nonsense which has no value in one’s spiritual advancement for the speaker and the receiver.

2.     If the ear is not engaged in hearing about the Lord then the ears are to be considered like the holes of the snakes. Rats and mice make holes in agricultural fields; however the snakes eat the rat and mouse and live in those holes. Similarly if the ear is not used to hear the message of the Lord, then they are not being utilized properly. the senses and the action of the senses are to be considered impure or materialistic as long as they are employed only in sense gratification.

5.    Head crowned with a heavy silk turban.

1.    The common man who is puffed up with his material position and does not bow down before the Deity of the Lord in the temple, or who defies temple worship without any knowledge of the science, must know that his so-called turban or crown will only succeed in further drowning him in the water of the ocean of material existence. A drowning man with a heavy weight on his head is sure to go down more swiftly than those who have no heavy weight. 

2.    A foolish, puffed-up man defies the science of God and says that God has no meaning for him, but when he is in the grip of God’s law and is caught by some disease like cerebral thrombosis, that godless man sinks into the ocean of nescience by the weight of his material acquisition. 

3.    Advancement of material science without God consciousness is a heavy load on the head of human society, and so one must take heed of this great warning.