Amarendra: Prabhupada made a comparison to a lion when he talked about how people choose to stay in the material world and subject themselves to all of this suffering; birth, death, old age and disease. Prabhupada said, “Why would you do that? Why would people choose this? It’s like a lion. You don’t go up to a lion and say, ‘Oh, Mr. Lion, please open your mouth I wish to enter.’” It’s like we’re asking maya to open her jaws and let us enter this miserable condition of life.
Reference: Remembrances by Sidhanta Das- Folio Vedabase
