Morning Walk

KC Books Awaken Souls Worldwide, Movement Grows for Ten Thousand Years

📅 June 5, 1976 📍 Los Angeles ⏱ 43 min
Krishna Consciousness threatens the material world's foundation; only the pure-hearted will hear its message.
Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca

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[in car] Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: ...had been a kīrtana leader in his previous lifetime, how could he take so naturally to Sanskrit and chanting like that?

Prabhupāda: This boy? Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes. He's just like a Bengali kīrtana leader. He joined the movement when he was only sixteen years old.

Rāmeśvara: Jagannātha dāsa has just come back from Vṛndāvana. I think he's going to help on the books again. That will speed things up. Everything is going slowly through Sanskrit still.

Prabhupāda: [looking at bones] Chicken? Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: No, some animal, bigger animal.

Prabhupāda: ...kill. Simply kill. Paśu-ghna. As soon as you become animal killer, Kṛṣṇa consciousness finished.

Parīkṣit Mahārāja, vinā paśu-ghnāt. Except the persons who are killers of animals, everyone will be interested. nivṛtta-tarṣair upagīyamānād bhavauṣadhāc chrotra-mano-'bhirāmāt ka uttamaśloka-guṇānuvādāt virajyeta pumān vinā paśu-ghnāt [SB 10.1.4] Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: One good thing is that there is generally a growing movement amongst American people, and I don't know about other countries, for vegetarianism. People are becoming more and more... I think it is due to our books, Śrīla Prabhupāda.

Book distribution, we are educating the people in that way. Prabhupāda: Actually, we are educating. That's a fact. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Many vegetarian societies now. [break] Prabhupāda: ...they say, Santa Monica? Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes, it is cleaner there. Rāmeśvara: Yesterday you suggested that I send groups of our brahmacāriṇīs to that farm in Oregon where Yamunā Mātājī is staying, but I was thinking that actually, she is a very, very wonderful preacher, and if she can visit our temples more often, then she can... In other words, instead of...

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