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Does this (non-veg) food make effect on a human nature?

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"Does this food make effect on a human nature"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1973 Conversations and Morning Walks

No, there is difference. George Bernard Shaw, he wrote a book: "You Are What You Eat." So eating has got effect. Sāttvikāhāra or... Unless one is in the sāttvika position, he cannot understand about self-realization. It is not possible.
Room Conversation with Indian Guests -- July 11, 1973, London:

Prabhupāda: Yes. They eat human beings. Nara-buli (?), sacrifice human being, still there is a class of men.

Kṛṣṇa-bhāminī: In South America, they take a human being. From the head down, they eat. Then the head, they shrink it until it becomes very small, and this is a great prize.

Guest (2): (Hindi) That was on the television, given all this, in South America, isn't it?

Prabhupāda: Just like you, you keep the tiger's face after killing.

Guest (2): (Hindi)

Guest (5): Does this food make effect on a human nature?

Prabhupāda: Huh?

Guest (5): These non-vegetarian foods and things like that. They definitely make effect on a human nature and behavior.

Prabhupāda: No, there is difference. George Bernard Shaw, he wrote a book: "You Are What You Eat." So eating has got effect. Sāttvikāhāra or... Unless one is in the sāttvika position, he cannot understand about self-realization. It is not possible.

Page Title:Does this (non-veg) food make effect on a human nature?
Compiler:Mangalavati, Rishab
Created:06 of Jun, 2011
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