To transform others spiritually, one must first become divine oneself, not remain a devil.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Morning Walk — April 19, 1975, Vṛndāvana 750419MW-VRNDAVAN [34:00 Minutes] Walk_750419MW-VRNDAVAN Prabhupāda: [indistinct] ...nobody said that this meat-eating is bad; now I am saying. You see? So they do not know that it is bad. So they are not offenders.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: And now that you are saying, many people are stopping.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Somebody, they act... Just like illicit sex. They did not know that it is sinful.
Now they are understanding. There was no good leader. Even the priests. In the Bible it is said, "Thou shall not kill." The priests never said, because they are meat-eaters.
They themselves are meat-eaters. How they can say? "It is our tradition to eat meat." But how the common man will be educated? [break] You can give me the general prasāda today.
I will taste. [break] When one become rich, he becomes lazy. What is called? "Leads to poverty"?
Hmm? Luxury. "Luxury leads to poverty." So at one time one become very rich by hard work, and next generation gets the money for nothing, he spends it on luxury, and the third generation, poor. There are many families, in everywhere.