Prabhupāda: Prakṛteḥ kriyamāṇāni guṇaiḥ karmāṇi sarvaśaḥ (BG 3.27). So there are different prakṛtis, different mentality. They want to live, eat. The eating, sleeping, mating, defending is there, but everyone has got different ideas. Just like you say, majority of people, they want to eat meat. They have got different mentality. But we don't want.
Ambassador: In India, of course, not majority, I think it's a minority.
Prabhupāda: No, no. More . . .
Ambassador: Most people are . . .
Prabhupāda: Yes, yes. In India, they're being now educated to eat meat. (Ambassador laughs) Otherwise, Indians, at least Hindus . . .
Ambassador: It is true. That's true. (laughing)
Prabhupāda: Eh? They are being educated.
Ambassador: (laughing) I belong to vegetarian family. I eat meat now.
Prabhupāda: Yes. No, in Madras, I have seen . . .
Ambassador: Most of them . . .
Prabhupāda: Mostly they are vegetarian, strictly vegetarian. Actually, in southern India, they maintain the Hindu culture. You'll find big high-court judges, they have got tilaka.
Ambassador: That's true.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Strictly in Rāmānuja-sampradāya, or Śaiva-sampradāya they have got . . . Strictly taking bath, and tilaka. In New Delhi, you'll find so many Madrasi gentlemen, big, big, high officers, they're strictly following Hindu principles.
Ambassador: You'll be surpri . . .
Prabhupāda: And still, if I am correct, in Madras they, there, there is not many Muhammadans. The Muhammadan culture could not enter . . .
Ambassador: That's very true.
Prabhupāda: . . . into Madras, southern India. And you'll find also in our Caitanya-Caritāmṛta . . . Now I am translating. When Caitanya Mahāprabhu went to southern India, practically whole southern India became Vaiṣṇava by His preaching.