Big Monkeys, Ceylon jumping

Jadurani-devi dasi: In order to push his disciples to work harder, Prabhupada sometimes used sarcasm. He was tired of delays by the workers in constructing a Mayapur residential building and he blamed it on his devotees. When one of the leading managers among his disciples made an excuse, Prabhupada retorted by quoting a humorous verse: "Big, big monkey, Big, big belly, Ceylon jumping, Melancholy." Everyone laughed with Prabhupada, without at first catching the meaning. He explained that his managers were like the monkeys who, unlike Hanuman, could not jump to Ceylon. Despite having big muscles and big bellies, when asked to do something heroic, they could not.