Prabhupāda: Indian people say like that?
Guest (2): Some of them, not all. It's not said anybody. It's just argument of people that . . . even Americans. People, they say: "We are not killing your sacred cow, because your sacred cow is in your country." It was long ago, I remember. During lunch break we had some argument.
Prabhupāda: Then what are these? American cows?
Guest (2): Yes. They said: "Our cows are not holy."
Prabhupāda: Apaśyatām ātma-tattvaṁ gṛheṣu gṛha-medhinām. They are blind. They do not know about self. Apaśyatām ātma-tattvaṁ gṛheṣu gṛha-medhinām (SB 2.1.2). Parābhavas tāvad abodha-jāto yāvan na jijñāsata ātma-tattvam. Everyone is born fool. So fool's activities means defeat. So human life, although born fool, they should have knowledge. Without knowledge all their activities are defeat of life, parābhava. So long he is not inquisitive to understand what is his self, whatever he is doing, it is simply for his defeat, parābhava.
Guest (2): One thing I have been thinking for years together, but I could never understand it. In Bhagavad-gītā, when Lord Kṛṣṇa . . . Arjuna asks a question, kena prayukto 'yaṁ pāpaṁ carati pūruṣaḥ. Lord Kṛṣṇa says, kāma eṣa krodha eṣa rajo-guṇa-samudbhavaḥ (BG 3.37). The kāma . . . where is the beginning of this kāma?
Prabhupāda: Rajo-guṇa. That is stated, rajo-guṇa. (Hindi) Rajo-guṇa-samudbhavaḥ. Therefore you have to come to the sattva-guṇa. Sattva-guṇa, to come to the sattva-guṇa, you have to sāttvika vikāra (Hindi) . . . they are described in the Bhagavad-gītā. Brahmā-karma svabhāva-jam (BG 18.42). That is sattva-guṇa. Satyaṁ śaucam.