Chikoo Tree
Therefore Caitanya Mahāprabhu gives us, warning us that, tṛṇād api sunīcena taror api sahiṣṇunā: “You just become humbler than the grass.” Just you trample over the grasses, it does not protest. Not only you, so many people are going on the grasses, but they tolerate. So tṛṇād api sunīcena taror api sahiṣṇunā. And He has given the example, “Tolerant than the trees.” The trees are standing in one place. Scorching heat and cold and rains, they are all suffering, and the people taking their leaves, taking their branches, woods, cutting them, taking fruit, and still, the trees give you shelter. This is the example of tolerance. So tṛṇād api sunīcena taror api sahiṣṇunā, amāninā mānadena. Everyone in this material world is very much fond of getting honor. Although he’s not honorable, still, he wants to get honor. Although he is unfit, still, he wants. That is the material propensity. So Caitanya Mahāprabhu says that, “You give them honor. Don’t ask for yourself any honor, respect, but others, you give them.” That is the process of Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s preaching.
(740304 – Lecture CC Adi 07.04 – Mayapur)