Ingratitude transforms the protected disciple into a tiger that bites the hand of his savior.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Pṛthu-putra: He asks how many pages. Yogānanda asks how many... Because they say that you sent a newsletter to all the GBCs. He asks how many pages was the newsletter.
Prabhupāda: Newspaper? Hari-śauri: Newsletter to the GBC.
Prabhupāda: What is that newsletter? Hari-śauri: You said, "Please be informed that Nitāi has become a venomous serpent." Prabhupāda: Eh? Hari-śauri: "Please be informed that Nitāi has become a venomous serpent." Prabhupāda: So this has been sent? [laughs] Hari-śauri: Yes, to the GBC.
Pṛthu-putra: Yogānanda asked how many pages, when he heard about the newsletter. He thought that you spoke so long about that. And I just said, "Just two lines." But they never asked me what the letter said.
Prabhupāda: Yes, two lines is sufficient. Dhanañjaya: Punar mūṣiko bhava. Prabhupāda: What is that? Dhanañjaya: Punar mūṣiko bhava. Prabhupāda: Yes. This is exactly the same case. Punar mūṣiko bhava, you know the whole story? A mūṣika, a mouse, was made a tiger, and the tiger wanted to eat the saintly person who made him.
First of all he was mouse. So he came to the saintly person, "Sir, I am troubled. Give me some benediction." "What do you want?" "Now, the cat always chases." "All right, you become cat so that you'll not be attacked." Then after some time he came, "I am being chased by the dog." "All right, you become a dog." From cat to dog, from mouse to... Then again he came.
"Still they are chasing me. Fox." And then in this way, and ultimately he was made a tiger. And after becoming a tiger, he began to look, staring on the... "What do you mean by this?" "I shall eat you." "Oh?