A man went to a dentist asking that one of his teeth be extracted. Upon examining the man’s tooth, however, the dentist refused. “There’s nothing wrong with your tooth,” he pointed out. “Why should I extract it?”
“I know that my tooth is sound,” the man said. “It is my stomach that’s aching.”
Exasperated, the dentist asked, “If it is your stomach that’s troubling you, why are you asking me to extract your tooth?!”
“The pain in my mouth will make me forget the pain in my stomach.”
Srila Prabhupada explains, “Everyone is trying to make a solution of some temporary difficulties, politically, socially, economically. But real solution is, as it is stated in the Bhagavad-gita, janma-mrtyu-jara-vyadhi-duhkha-dosanudarshanam… [Bg. 13.9]. Janma, birth, mrtyu, death, jara, old age, and vyadhi, disease—to get out of this entanglement.” – Bhagavad-gita 7.3 – Vrindavana, October 31, 1973
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