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Addicted to everything - illicit sex, meat-eating, intoxication, and gambling. And now they have given up everything

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"Addicted to everything—illicit sex, meat-eating, intoxication and gambling. And now they have given up everything"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1975 Conversations and Morning Walks

Yes. Addicted to everything—illicit sex, meat-eating, intoxication and gambling. And now they have given up everything.

Prabhupāda: There is. Everyone is prone to falldown. But that percentage is very low, say one in five hundred. We have got about ten thousand students all over the world. Out of them, they have fallen about ten or, say, fifteen, that's all.

Guest (2): You means you have ten thousand students who used to be addicted to something?

Prabhupāda: Yes. Addicted to everything—illicit sex, meat-eating, intoxication and gambling. And now they have given up everything.

Guest (2): And those who relapse, can they be treated again?

Prabhupāda: Again?

Amogha: Those who have relapsed, can they be treated again?

Prabhupāda: Ah, yes, that I say. Say, utmost, ten out of ten thousand.

Amogha: He says, "Can they be treated again, a second time?"

Prabhupāda: Oh, yes. Even American government is pleased with this movement, because they have spent so much millions of dollars for stopping LSD, and they are surprised that when the people come here, they give up.

Guest (3): Do you teach abstinence or moderation in the use of these things?

Prabhupāda: No, we say "Stop." We don't allow even smoking and drinking tea. That is also intoxication. We are so strict. But still, they give up. None of us take tea. We eat very simple things—vegetables, wheat, rice, little milk, that's all.

Guest (1): Did you say you eat meat?

Amogha: Wheat, wheat.

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