Meat-eaters cannot understand God; scientists boast of creating life they cannot even imitate naturally.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Morning Walk — June 6, 1974, Geneva 740606MW-GENEVA [37:03 Minutes] Walk_740606MW-GENEVA Prabhupāda: ... only barrier. The meat-eaters cannot understand.
Satsvarūpa: He said, "Let us go on to higher topics. We've just been talking so long about meat-eating." Prabhupāda: Yes.
Satsvarūpa: You said: "Well, if you're sinful, there's no question of going on to a higher topic." Prabhupāda: Yes. It is specially mentioned in the Bhāgavata: vinā paśughnāt. nivṛtta-tarṣair upagīyamānād bhavauṣadhāc chrotra-mano-'bhirāmāt ka uttamaśloka-guṇānuvādāt pumān virajyeta vinā paśughnāt [SB 10.1.4] Everyone can understand the truth except the rascals who are meat-eaters. Vinā paśughnāt. Paśughnāt.
Paśu means animals, and ghna means killer. Christ therefore first says, "You shall not kill." These rascals are killers from the very beginning, and they're continuing. Vinā paśughnāt. Those who are paśughna, they cannot understand.
They're thinking, "We are doing very good work, philanthropic work, opening hospital and public road, and every ten years we are fighting and killing all the men population." They're happy. They are taking credit for these big, big buildings, but this is duṣkṛtina, because simply these buildings are meant for committing sinful activities. That's all. "Wine, women, meat-eating, gambling.
We are civilized." [break] ...this Geneva very many churches? Guru-gaurāṅga: Many churches in Geneva? No. Prabhupāda: No. Guru-gaurāṅga: Don't have many. Prabhupāda: That means godless. Eh? Guru-gaurāṅga: Yes. Prabhupāda: When I first went to America, Butler, in Pennsylvania, that is small county, but at least one dozen churches I found. I very much appreciated, that these people are not...
And they're going regularly, churches. I was invited in many churches. I was... Yogeśvara: To lecture? Prabhupāda: Yes. The, the girl, that my friend's son's wife...