Wrong Line Insurance
As I found myself in the wrong line at the DMV last Friday, I recalled an idea offered by Mad magazine some fifty years ago, “Wrong Line Insurance”. After waiting in the wrong line for some twenty minutes, I was told that I should have been at a far-off other window. I wanted to e-file my “wrong line claim” then and there. When I asked if I could jump back to the front when I needed to return to this window, the clerk chuckled and put up her “Position Closed” sign.
This dilemma exactly mirrors material existence. As people expire, expecting a host of angels to take them to their fabled heaven, they find themselves in line at the wrong window. Rather than discovering St. Peter and his trumpet, the find only the duttas of Lord Yama at the end of their miserable journey to hell. As long as we have this human form of life, we should get in the line back to home back to Godhead. That is the line which leads to Shrila Prabhupada waiting at the window to the Spiritual Sky. And the way to get to that window to Vaikuntha is found in chanting the mantra surcharged with the holy names of the Lord.
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare
