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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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Sūnā means unnecessary animal-killing. Unnecessary. Human society should be sober and continent. If I can . . . I require to eat something, if I have got sufficient grains, fruits, milk, flour, vegetables, why should I kill unnecessarily a poor animal? So this is sinful.
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[[Vanisource:710925 - Lecture BG 13.02 - Nairobi|710925 - Lecture BG 13.02 - Nairobi]]
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This process of Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is making everyone a brahmin from the śūdra stage. This is a purificatory process. Just like you see these European and American boys, they are undergoing purificatory process. Purificatory process means to avoid sinful activities. That is purificatory. If you don't act sinfully, then you are pure.

So the basic principles of sinful life are four: striya sūnā pāna dyūta yatra pāpaś catur-vidhā ([[Vanisource:SB 1.17.38|SB 1.17.38]]). Catur-vidhā means four kinds of sinful activities are . . . striya means to have illicit sex life. According to Vedic principles, sex life cannot be performed without a married life that is sanctioned by religion. Therefore in human society there is system of marriage.

Not that you keep a woman, you keep a man, like cats and dogs; no human society. May be Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Sikh—it doesn't matter—any civilized form of society has got this system of marriage, because without marriage sex life is irreligious. Therefore this is one of the sinful activities: to have illicit sex life.

And sūnā, sūnā means killing of animals. Killing of animals . . . even in Christian religion it is forbidden: "Thou shall not kill." Out of the Ten Commandments the first commandment is, "Thou shall not kill." In the Buddha religion there is also the same thing: ahiṁsā paramo dharmaḥ. So in other religions, Hindu religion, they are . . . there are sometimes killing of animals in sacrifices. But that is not for eating purpose. The test of Vedic mantra was, I mean to say, verified how the mantras are being chanted. So sometimes the animals were put into the fire, and the animal would come out again with new life. That was the test of Vedic mantras.

In this age, Kali-yuga, there is no such qualified brahmin to perform the sacrifices; therefore all kinds of animal sacrifices are forbidden.

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:aśvamedhaṁ gavālambhaṁ
:sannyāsaṁ pala-paitṛkam
:devareṇa sutotpattiṁ
:kalau pañca vivarjayet 
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So sūnā, sūnā means unnecessary animal-killing. Unnecessary. Human society should be sober and continent. If I can . . . I require to eat something, if I have got sufficient grains, fruits, milk, flour, vegetables, why should I kill unnecessarily a poor animal? So this is sinful.

Striya sūnā pāna. Pāna means intoxication. Therefore those . . . of course, in this country, it is not very much so, but in India pān, betel, betel nut, and pān eating. The pāna means drinking, pāna means intoxication. So even drinking tea, chewing pān is also intoxication, what to speak of drinking wine and other things. Striya sūnā pāna dyūta. And dyūta means gambling. So if we want to be purified, then we must give up these four principles of sinful activities.

So these boys are being trained up for their purification, and although from their birth they are habituated to all these habits, they have given up. They have no other bad habits. Nothing. They don't take even tea, and smoke. This is purificatory process. Janmanā jāyate śūdraḥ saṁskārād bhaved dvijaḥ. By this purificatory process one becomes brahmin.

So this path is open for everyone—to become brahmin or to become purified. Brahmin means truthful and purified: satya, śauca, śama, dama, titikṣa, ārjavam jñānaṁ vijñānam āstikyaṁ, brahma-karma svabhāva-jam ([[Vanisource:BG 18.42 (1972)|BG 18.42]]). Truthfulness, purity—satyam, śaucam; śama—controlling the mind; dama—controlling the senses. Śama, dama; titikṣa—tolerance; ārjavam—simplicity; jñānaṁ—learning; vijñānam—practical application of learning in life; āstikyaṁ—full faith in God. Brahma-karma svabhāva-jam. These are the symptoms when one becomes a brahmin.

So at the present moment, there is necessity of creating some brahmin—creating some brahmin. Because as I have already told that in this age almost everyone is a śūdra because the purificatory processes are not adopted. Everyone's busy only for maintaining this body, āhāra-nidra-bhaya-maithuna ca. Āhāra-nidra-bhaya-maithuna: eating, sleeping, fearing and defending. But this is the business of the animals and the śūdras.

But the society cannot be peaceful unless there are four principles, four divisions of human being: brahmin, kṣatriya, vaiśya and śūdra. Just like your body is complete when there is head, when there are arms, when there is abdomen and when there are legs. If you keep simply the head and no trunk, hands or legs, that is useless.
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