Prabhupada's Bengali stories

Srila Prabhupada: One of Prabhupada's Bengali stories was about a doctor visiting a house to diagnose two patients, a rich housewife and her maidservant. The doctor said, "The maidservant's fever is 105, so there is some anxiety. I will give her some medicine. But the landlady of the house has practically no fever, 99, so there is no anxiety for her." When she heard this, the landlady became angry and said, "This doctor is useless. I'm the landlady. I've only got 99 and my maidservant has 105. The maidservant should have 98, I should have 110!" Prabhupada compared this to the modern civilization, which is inclined to increase the degree of its fever up to 110. As in the human body there is death as soon as the temperature reaches 107, so Prabhupada said that by the nuclear weapons, modern civilization will come to the point of 107 and over. But devotees want to decrease the fever, by living the highest, ideal life and decreasing the demands of the body.