Srila Prabhupada recites a very Instructive story about an old woman

Prabhupada: There is that story that one old woman, she was suffering, and she had to collect woods from the forest and sell in the market. So one day, how do you say, she was praying to Krsna, or God, that “Kindly help me. I am in very poverty-stricken.” So one day, she was carrying that load of fuel. It fell down. So nobody was there to help [her]. So she began to cry, “Who will help me?” So she began to pray to God, “Kindly help me.” And God came: “What do you want?” “Who are You, Sir?” “I am God.” “Kindly help me to take this burden on my head.” Yes. “All right.” From God, she’s asking, “Please help me to get this burden on my head.” That’s all. So everyone is going on, “Let my family be very happy, my son be married. Let him pass M.A. examination.” But it is the same thing: “Give me the burden on my head.” This is the prayer. Mudhah.

[Bg 7.15].

[Those miscreants who are grossly foolish, lowest among mankind, whose knowledge is stolen by illusion, and who partake of the atheistic nature of demons, do not surrender unto Me.]

The life was meant for understanding Krsna and worship Him, and he’s asking, “Give me the burden on my head.” Therefore mudha, rascal, fool. He’s asking something which will never make him happy, even by merging into the effulgence, Brahman effulgence. It will never make him happy. But he does not know. Therefore he’s mudha, rascal.

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Morning Walk – March 6, 1974, Mayapur