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in the big city for the first time. He stood gaping at a fifty-story building which housed the country's biggest newspaper press. He asked a passerby, "What is this huge building for?"
Seeing how naive the Polack was, the passerby said, "Why, that is where Brutus the Giant lives!"
The Polack hung around in front of the building all day in the hope of catching a glimpse of the giant.
At ten o'clock in the evening the same passerby saw the Polack still standing there and took pity on him.
"Look, there is not any giant in there, I was just joking!"
"Joking, my foot!" replied the Polack. "Five minutes ago a truck arrived loaded with huge rolls of toilet paper for him!"
A Polack found a twenty-dollar bill. He thought for a few minutes about how to spend it. Finally he flipped a coin. "Heads, I will eat it away; tails, I will drink it."
The coin spun in the air, fell on his lap, and disappeared between the buttons of his fly. "Aha!" grinned the Polack. "That's another possibility!"
For these people, Prabhupad, the founder of Hare Krishna Movement... He is almost like a magnet: he attracts the uttermost idiots in the world! That much credit must be given to him. Muktananda -- he is not that much great as Prabhupad but comes very close. Now he is sitting on the Miami Beach -- that is the right place, that's where these people are needed.
And for the second category, the average intelligent person: Mother Teresa, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Anand Mai, these people will do.
The police station received a call: "Philip's residence!" a hoarse voice shrieked. "Get over here quick! There is a cat in the house!"
"A cat?! And you called us up for that? Whom am I talking to anyway?"
"Philip's parrot!"
Average intelligence!
Murphy, the father of ten children, asked the pharmacist for a packet of contraceptives. He returned six weeks later to complain: "They did not do any good at all. My wife is pregnant again. I think they were too big, even though I cut off a droopy bit at the end!"
And for the third category, the people who are attracted to Krishnamurti:
A fat Jewish lady
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