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If you're a member, you have to practice the whole thing obviously

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"If you're a member, you have to practice the whole thing obviously"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1971 Conversations and Morning Walks

Just as in the same family some of the sons have forgotten father and some of them remember, but both of them member of the same family. Because he has forgotten his father does not mean that he is not son. He still remains. So actually, everyone is a member of God's family. That is our vision. Not only human being, but animals also. We therefore consider animals also brothers. We don't support animal killing.
Room Conversation -- August 14, 1971, London:

Sister Mary: You don't have to change your religion. Like we are Christians. In the orthodox church, they say that (indistinct)

Guest (2): To be a member you don't have to change your religion? Is this a fact?

Sister Mary: To be a member, here a member here, you do, don't you? Or do you?

Revatīnandana: To live in this temple you have to take up fully our principles and take up our activities of preaching work and like that. But to practice these things outside, even in one's own religion, without changing the basis of his belief, he can simply devote himself to God in these ways. And if one is young and not so attached, he can take it up fully. He can take it up in part, or he can take it up... And religious system, there are names of God. You simply chant it.

Guest (2): (indistinct) an associate member if you like.

Sister Mary: I've only just (indistinct) asking about it.

Revatīnandana: Everyone is a member...

Guest (2): If you're a member, you have to practice the whole thing obviously. (break)

Revatīnandana: Everyone is a member of this movement. But some people have forgotten. Our movement is to remind them. Every living being is by nature a servant of God. Now people are forgetting. We want them to remember. We don't care for some difference of technique in worship. We want people to take up the business of chanting the names of God.

Prabhupāda: Just as in the same family some of the sons have forgotten father and some of them remember, but both of them member of the same family. Because he has forgotten his father does not mean that he is not son. He still remains. So actually, everyone is a member of God's family. That is our vision. Not only human being, but animals also. We therefore consider animals also brothers. We don't support animal killing.

Sister Mary: (indistinct) in your four principles.

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Revatīnandana: We follow strictly these four principles. Just like this: no animal killing, no eating of animal foodstuff including meat, fish and eggs; don't take any kind of intoxicant, even tea, coffee.

Guest (2): You're still on number one?

Revatīnandana: No, that's number two.

Guest (2): Let me get number one first. No animal killing, yes?

Revatīnandana: And no animal slaughter, no taking of animal foodstuffs including meat, fish, or eggs.

Guest (2): No animal foodstuff.

Guest (1): Not milk.

Revatīnandana: Milk we have, surely. We don't have to kill the animal to take the milk. Meat, fish and eggs we don't take. No intoxications of any kind.

Guest (2): You're on number two now.

Revatīnandana: Number two. No intoxication. That includes even tea, coffee, cigarettes, very strictly. No gambling.

Guest (2): You're on three now.

Revatīnandana: Number three, no gambling. And number four, no illicit sex life. That means no sex life whatsoever outside of marriage. And in marriage, sex life is to beget children and raise them to love God. So we follow these four principles very strictly. In this way we purify our lives and then we can develop spiritual emotion of love of God.

Guest (2): Uh, let's look at the... I quite see these four principles. I wonder if one could look at it slightly from a positive side. You said no animal killing, slaughter and no intoxicants.

Revatīnandana: These are four "nos."

Guest (2): Yes. Fine. Fine. Let's look at the "yes's." What exactly can you eat?

Revatīnandana: We can eat anything: fruit, vegetables, milk products, grains, sugar, nuts, all kinds of vegetable foodstuffs.

Guest (2): Broadly speaking, anything that comes out of the earth.

Revatīnandana: Yes. And we can eat it after it's been offered to the Lord with love and devotion. This we call prasādam or Kṛṣṇa's mercy.

Prabhupāda: Actually, any foodstuff is Kṛṣṇa's mercy. Any foodstuff is Kṛṣṇa's, God's mercy. Just like grain. You cannot manufacture grain. It is by God's mercy you get it.

Page Title:If you're a member, you have to practice the whole thing obviously
Compiler:Mangalavati
Created:15 of May, 2011
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1