One Who Thinks the Deity Is Stone Is Resident of Hell – Our Counter-Emblem Is Only the Sickle for Agricultural Civilization

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Morning Walk — March 15, 1974, Vṛndāvana 740315MW-VRNDAVAN [30:42 Minutes] Walk_740315MW-VRNDAVAN Prabhupāda: ...you should call learned. Arcye viṣṇau śilā-dhīr guruṣu nara-matir vaiṣṇave jāti-buddhiḥ [Padma Purāṇa]. You take it... Nitāi: Yes.

Prabhupāda: ...this quotation from Padma Purāṇa, and distribute it by transcribing to all our devotees. ["One who thinks the Deity in the temple to be made of wood or stone, who thinks of the spiritual master in the disciplic succession as an ordinary man, who thinks the Vaiṣṇava in the Acyuta-gotra to belong to a certain caste or creed or who thinks of caraṇāmṛta or Ganges water as ordinary water is taken to be a resident of hell."] Nitāi: That's the verse that says that one is a resident of hell...

Prabhupāda: Yes. Nārakī. Nitāi: ...if he considers the Deity...

Prabhupāda: Arcye viṣṇau... [break] ...when it will teach military art, with tilaka, soldiers will [chanting in marching beat], "Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa..." [laughter] We want that. Marching with military band, "Hare Kṛṣṇa." You maintain this idea. Is it not good?

Prabhupāda: When there will be military march of Kṛṣṇa conscious soldiers, anyone who does not believe in Kṛṣṇa, "Blam!" [laughter] Yes. The same process as the Muhammadans did with sword and Koran, we'll have to do that. "Do you believe in Kṛṣṇa or not?" "No, sir." "Blam!" Finished. [laughter; Prabhupāda laughs] What do you think, Madhudviṣa Mahārāja?

Is that all right? Madhudviṣa: Yes. Prabhupāda: [laughing] What these Communists can do? We can do better than them. We can kill many Communists like that. [laughter] Then it will be counteraction of Communist movement.

And you think like that. "Why you are sitting idly, no employment? Come on to the field. Take this plow.

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