Christianity declined by violating 'Thou shalt not kill'—material pleasure always produces pain, but Krishna's pleasure is eternally blissful.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Morning Walk — October 4, 1975, Mauritius 751004MW-MAURITIUS [31:22 Minutes] Walk_751004MW-MAURITIUS Cyavana: ...they're trying to convert the Hindus to Christianity, the children. [break]
Prabhupāda: ...Christian missionaries. They are trying to convert others, but they are closing their churches. They are selling their churches to us. Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Finding new suckers.
In South Africa they put up big paṇḍāls, and because the Indian people, they have no entertainment in the evening, so they go there and they are entertained, and they learn how to sing the hymns that they have. Then you find that the children are singing the hymns because that's the songs that they're learning. If we can provide entertainment like that in the form of saṅkīrtana, then they'll also sing Hare Kṛṣṇa and become devotees of Kṛṣṇa. [break]
Prabhupāda: ...own Christian priests, they asked me that "Why Christianity is dwindling? What we have done?" So I told them, "What you have not done?" [laughter]
Prabhupāda: "You have violated from the very beginning the orders of Christ, 'Thou shall not kill,' and you are killing, only killing. So what you have not done?" Devotee (1): They say that man has to dominate over the animals. They justify...
Prabhupāda: Therefore you should kill and eat them. Very good reasoning. "The father should dominate over children; therefore the children should be killed and eaten up." So rascals, and they are professing religious leaders. Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Prabhupāda, if every moment we are killing in breathing and walking and doing so many things, and then it says, "Thou shalt not kill," so then hasn't God given us an instruction which is impossible? Prabhupāda: No. Conscientiously you should not.
But unconsciously if you do, that is excused. [break] ...na punar baddhya. Āhlādinī-śakti, it is pleasure potency. So pleasure potency is not painful to Kṛṣṇa. But it is painful.