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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1975]]
[[Category:Questions On... Animal Killing]]
[[Category:Questions On... Karma - Action and Reaction]]
[[Category:Questions On... Reincarnation, Afterlife, Transmigration of the Soul]]
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<div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<div id="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="8" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1975 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1975 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">Oh, yes. And who will become fish? That they do not know, how the transmigration of the soul is going on.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- May 9, 1975, Perth|Morning Walk -- May 9, 1975, Perth]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Amogha: They think catching fish is great sport, great fun.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: They haven't got any business. They must do all of these sinful activities. That is the defect of the modern civilization—keeping all men in darkness.</p>
<p>Jayadharma: Does that mean that the people that catch the fish have to also become fish?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Oh, yes. And who will become fish? That they do not know, how the transmigration of the soul is going on. They cannot explain wherefrom the fish are coming, wherefrom the trees are coming. Everything in darkness. And this civilization, this dark civilization, is going on, in the name of civilization. They cannot explain what is death, what is next life. Sometimes they say, "It is nature," but how nature is working they do not know. All darkness, mūḍhā na abhijānāti, mām ebhyaḥ parama. The birds and beasts are also catching fish, and they are also catching. What is the difference? What is the difference? They have got this nice human body, and they are acting like birds and beasts. And they are kept in darkness. There is no enlightenment. This is the modern civilization. (pause) The smell. What is the smell?</p>
<p>Amogha: If we go up there, I don't think it will be there.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Some decomposed things? And this is not good for you. (pause) They fish this side?</p>
<p>Amogha: The birds? Seagulls.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: He has got the human body. He also... These birds are catching fish. He does not know that he has got other business.</p>
<p>Amogha: At the school, the students say, "Why not eat fish? Jesus was passing out fish, in the Bible. And we all catch fish. We like to catch fish." And then we tell them about meat. So, they think that we are loosing a great pleasure, that we cannot eat meat.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: You tell them, that you will be very merry—that's all right. But do you want to stop these merry affairs all of a sudden? Ask them, what will they reply?</p>
<p>Amogha: They'll say "No, we don't want to stop."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Then, the nature will stop it. What are you going to arrange for that?</p>
<p>Amogha: They say, "We don't know what will happen after, so we'll just enjoy and have fun now, as much as possible."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So why have you come to school? Why don't you play all day?</p>
<p>Amogha: Because we need to get a good job so we...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Then, they are thinking of future. Now we are thinking of the future. That is ignorance—that they do not know what is future life. They are thinking of the future, that's a fact, but because they are kept in darkness, about future life, they are doing all this irresponsible work.</p>
<p>Amogha: But nowadays people usually only go to school because the law requires it. Then at the age of...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Law requires or not requires, they are going to school with some future hope. So every sane man should think of the future. But because they are kept in darkness, they are all insane. They do not know what is the future of life. That is the defect. Everyone is thinking for future, but he does not know what is future after death. That is their ignorance. And Bhagavad-gītā begins that as the child has future, the boy has future, the young man has future, similarly the old man has also future. So that they do not know. That is their ignorance.</p>
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