Lessons From Peanuts

Radhanath Swami

I was left with nothing. And I was thinking, “Ok, what am I supposed to learn from this?” And I got a wonderful lesson, as the Bible says, seek and you shall find. I was thinking that compared to the incredible wealth that I gained, sitting on that rock, learning from Mother Ganga every day, all the wealth and power and prestige of this world is like peanuts. People lie and cry and die for these peanuts. But they do not recognize that at any moment, the monkey of another person's greed or the monkey of death is going to snatch all of our precious peanuts away.