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A reasonable man, a religious man, he should have discrimination that - If I get my foodstuff from here, why shall I kill a big animal

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Conversations and Morning Walks

1973 Conversations and Morning Walks

Prabhupāda: Well, lot of people may do anything.

Mother: I agree with you. Yes . . .

Prabhupāda: But a reasonable man, a religious man, he should have discrimination that, "If I get my foodstuff from here, why shall I kill a big animal?".

Prabhupāda: Even the animal is not intelligent, you cannot kill. Because your child is also not intelligent, so that does not mean you can kill your child.

Jesuit Priest: Oh, but nobody, I'd . . . nobody'd, nobody'd, master, nobody'd for one second would think about killing a child.

Prabhupāda: No, no. That is not a very good reasoning, that because the animal is not intelligent, they may be killed. That is not very good reason.

Jesuit Priest: Oh, no, that isn't the reason. That isn't the reason why we kill it. We kill the animal because we need it for a means of living.

Prabhupāda: No . . .

Jesuit Priest: As food.

Prabhupāda: You need it . . . just like if you can get nice fruits, grains, milk, why do you need animal? You have to eat. You have to eat and live. Not to kill. Similarly, that if you can get nice foodstuff from food grains, from fruits, from flowers, from vegetables, from milk, why you should kill the animals?

Mother: Well, a lot of people now are going over to health foods.

Prabhupāda: Eh?

Mother: This is thought of by a lot of people.

Prabhupāda: Well, lot of people may do anything.

Mother: I agree with you. Yes . . .

Prabhupāda: But a reasonable man, a religious man, he should have discrimination that, "If I get my foodstuff from here, why shall I kill a big animal?"

Mother: Well, it's not . . . I always think it's not for me to condemn people, whatever they do. All I ask for in life is . . . I'm not condemning you, but, uh . . .

Prabhupāda: No, we are thinking in that way. It is alright that we have to eat some living entity, but a preference . . . if we can get . . . besides that, when you get the grains, it is not actually killing. When you get the fruits, I am getting these fruits from the tree. It is not killing. The fruits are there. I take it. It falls down. I take it. The grains also. It is not killing.

Page Title:A reasonable man, a religious man, he should have discrimination that - If I get my foodstuff from here, why shall I kill a big animal
Compiler:Nabakumar
Created:2022-09-29, 11:58:45
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