Dog is your best friend. In India dog is untouchable. So "Man is known by his company." If your best friend is dog, then what you are?

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"Dog is your best friend. In India dog is untouchable. So" |"Man is known by his company." |"If your best friend is dog, then what you are"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1977 Conversations and Morning Walks

"According to Vedic civilization, you are actually untouchable. Now we have come to touch you; therefore wash you must, first. You are untouchable. In Indian civilization, dog is untouchable, and that is your best friend. So you are not touchable; therefore we have to wash you. And unless your brain is washed, you cannot understand Kṛṣṇa. So it is necessary." Is that all right? Dog is your best friend. In India dog is untouchable. So "Man is known by his company." If your best friend is dog, then what you are? We can understand your position. Because you sleep with dog, you eat with dog, your best friend is dog, so what you are? You must be washed. It is a fact. Every woman, every man, has some dog.

770111 - Conversation - Allahabad

We are brainwashing from bad to good. That is our business. We are washing the brain from all rascaldom. That is our business. You are . . . "Your brain is filled up with all rubbish things: meat-eating and illicit sex, gambling. So we are washing them." Ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanam (CC Antya 20.12). Śṛṇvatāṁ sva-kathāḥ kṛṣṇaḥ puṇya-śravaṇa-kīrtanaḥ, hrdy antaḥ-stho abhadrāṇi (SB 1.2.17). Abhadrānī washing. Abhadrāṇi means bad things. The bad things should be washed off. Don't you cleanse your home? Don't you cleanse your room? Is not that brainwashing? So if you wash your room very cleansed, who blames you? But you are so rascal that "Why you are washing this garbage?" you are protesting. You are such an intelligent man. We are washing the garbage; you are protesting, "Why you are washing the garbage?" This is your intelligence. But intelligent men wash the garbage. That is the law of nature—cleanse. That we are doing. "According to Vedic civilization, you are actually untouchable. Now we have come to touch you; therefore wash you must, first. You are untouchable. In Indian civilization, dog is untouchable, and that is your best friend. So you are not touchable; therefore we have to wash you. And unless your brain is washed, you cannot understand Kṛṣṇa. So it is necessary." Is that all right? Dog is your best friend. In India dog is untouchable. So "Man is known by his company." If your best friend is dog, then what you are? We can understand your position. Because you sleep with dog, you eat with dog, your best friend is dog, so what you are? You must be washed. It is a fact. Every woman, every man, has some dog.