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Dog or God Civilization
Prabhupada: Irritated... If your mind is
in peace... If you are not indulging in intoxication, gambling, illicit sex,
then your mind will not be irritated. How a gambler can be in peaceful mind?
That is not possible. How a drunkard can be in peaceful mind? Agitation is
for them who are simply engaged in sinful life. Those who are not engaged
in sinful life, naturally they are peaceful. Their mind is not agitated.
Vegetarians are naturally peaceful. Just see between a dog and a cow. (laughter).
Dog unnecessarily will talk: "Gow! Gow! Gow! Gow!" (makes barking sound)
without any fault. "Why you are here? Why you are here? Why you are here?"
That is dog's qualification. A cow, so useful animal, it will never agitate.
The dog has no use, but still he's the best friend. (laughter) And cow, actually
giving us milk, sending to the slaughterhouse. Just see. This is human civilization.
A dog is worshiped, and a cow is slaughtered. Do you think it is civilization?
Do you think? Can you support this?
Guest (1): Well, I had a friend who was a vegetarian...
Prabhupada: No, apart from this, these two animals. One is dog,
and another is cow. So dog is worshiped and cow is sent to the slaughterhouse.
What kind of civilization it is? Huh?
Hamsaduta: Animal.
Prabhupada: Less than! Cow is supporting the whole society with
milk. Every morning, without milk, we cannot live. The child, without milk,
cannot live. She should be treated as mother. And they are being sent to
the slaughterhouse. And still, they are thinking of becoming free from sinful
life. Can anyone kill his own mother? "Oh, mother is old and useless. Let
her be killed. Burden." Is that very gratitude for the mother by the son?
Revatinandana: They do that. As soon as the cow is too old to
give milk, immediately slaughterhouse. I was talking to one man, he was a
cowherdsman here in England. He said he couldn't stand it. He said a nice
cow, she would get old, she couldn't give milk anymore, immediately slaughterhouse.
Just like that. The most disgusting thing.
Prabhupada: (people coming in) Oh. You come forward. Give him
seat. Sivananda, you come... You can sit there. Yes. So the God consciousness
can be awakened if you stop sinful activities. Otherwise, it is impossible.
You go on preaching for millions of years; there will be no God consciousness.
There will be no God consciousness. That is the... in Bhagavad-gita.