Saints never say enough is enough. They never say,
“I don’t need this.”
So Jagadguru Shree Kripalu Ji Maharaj is saying, you know, that this situation is not favorable towards the Saints, so they should be sensible and just stay in the Divine abode and keep enjoying their Divine bliss over there, but they have one fault, one doṣh (flaw), that is their nature.
पर उपकार बचन मन काया, संत सहज सुभाय खगराया I
Par upakār bachan man kāyā, saṇt sahaj subhāy khagarāyā.- Ramayan
The Saints are under the effect of their own gracious nature. They can’t help it. You would have heard of the story of the frog and the scorpion.
The frog said, “Let me give you a ride across the river!.”
The river was in flood. The scorpion wanted to get to the other side.
The frog said, “I can swim. Why not hop on my back?”
And the scorpion said, “It’s my nature to sting.”
And the frog said, “Okay, whatever, let’s try to get across and, you know, that if you sting mewe’re both going to sink, right?”
“Yes, yes, I know.”
“Okay, hop on my back.”
The scorpion gets on his back, and he can’t help himself. Halfway across, he stings the frog, and the frog dies and sinks to the bottom. So the scorpion is like us; we worldly people can’t help our nature. We’re always finding fault and criticizing.
And the Saint is like there’s another story of a Saint on the bank of a river who saw a scorpion drowning and said,
“Okay, let me help that scorpion.”
And he reached his hand in, and just as he was going to pick it up, the scorpion stung him. So he recoiled his hand, but then he tried to pick the scorpion up again, and the scorpion stung him again. The scorpion is drowning, and the Saint is trying to pull him out of the water, but keeps getting stung again and again. And somebody said,
“Oh, Guruji, what are you doing? The scorpion’s just going to keep stinging you! It’s his nature.”
And Guruji (spiritual teacher) said, “But it’s my nature to help. He can’t help his nature. I can’t help my nature.”
So Saints will keep coming in this world because of one fault they have, (which is) their causeless graciousness. They just can’t help it. Shree Krishna (the supreme Divine Personality) can’t help it, and His Saints can’t help it. They have to try to help us. It’s their nature. They just have to try to help other people all the time. They can’t change their nature. And that’s lucky for us.
