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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1973]]
[[Category:Questions On... Animal Killing]]
[[Category:Questions On... Human Beings, Other Species or Types of Living Entities]]
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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="1973_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="6" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1973 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1973 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Rosicrucians -- August 13, 1973, Paris|Room Conversation with Rosicrucians -- August 13, 1973, Paris]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Yogeśvara: In other words, "These are nice principles that you are following and we are sure that you have come to these conclusions on your own, just like maybe one day we will come to those conclusions on our own also." They are something that is self-initiated, these regulative principles.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So for the time being there is no such rules and regulations? In their order. (break)</p>
<p>Yogeśvara: ...makes certain suggestions, but it doesn't oblige anyone to follow their suggestions.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: What is that suggestion?</p>
<p>Yogeśvara: The movement suggests that people live a life as perhaps yours is, of purity, and pure thoughts and moral living and even following certain principles of...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: But these things are there, but they don't say. Suppose a man is killing animals. They don't prohibit him. Then that is immoral life, but if they don't prohibit him, then how he can become moral? (break) ...killing of animals and morality will go together?</p>
<p>Yogeśvara: It's an order that likes very much the ideals of beauty and harmony and morality, but they can't see imposing on anyone these things. I guess their idea is that you can't impose beauty and morality on anyone. You can't insist that anyone stop killing. You can't tell anyone forcibly not to do this or not to do that, that these are things that you have to realize.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: But is there such rules and regulation or injunction from the society that "You do not kill." Just like Bible there is, "You shall not kill." So they have no such thing.</p>
<p>Yogeśvara: He says Jesus ate meat and furthermore there is a sect in the Orient that wears gauze over their mouth so as not to kill microbes while they breathe. But we are killing those microbes. We have killed these flowers.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So they are to satisfy everyone.</p>
<p>Yogeśvara: Don't you think we are killing other living beings?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That is another thing. (break)</p>
<p>Yogeśvara: ...study everything.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: (laughs) They haven't got their own anything. Simply they are studying.</p>
<p>Yogeśvara: Realization is what counts.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So that he cannot explain, what is the realization. If you cannot describe, then what is the realization?</p>
<p>Yogeśvara: He says he is only forty-nine years old. He can't describe it for you.</p>
<p>Guru-gaurāṅga: He knows the Rosicrucian order is good because everything he has attained in his life, he owes to the order. So he knows it is good by what he has attained.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That's all right. But I think for mass of people, unless they have got some ideal, how they can join? That is my point.</p>
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