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Therefore Caitanya Mahāprabhu – not only Caitanya Mahāprabhu but also the Vedic literature – says:

Mike Robinson: But you were a chemist in secular life, were you not?

The commandment is “Thou shalt not kill.”

If one does not know hygienic principles, he will not know what will contaminate him. A criminal may say, “I did not know the law,” but he will not be excused if he commits a crime. Similarly, a child, not knowing that fire will burn, will touch the fire. The fire does not think, “This is a child, and he does not know I will burn.”

It is not all-important.

Visitor: Christians take this commandment to be applicable to human beings, not to animals.

Let it be as it is; with Love or not at all.

I do not know. This is the problem. People do not take this problem seriously, but the Bhagavad-gītā indicates that that is real education Real education is to inquire why, although we do not want to die, death comes. We do not want to become old men. Why does old age come upon us?

Parīkṣit Mahārāja says here, “It is not that if I say there is no God then there will be no God or I will not be responsible for what I do.” Atheists do not want God, because they are always sinful – if they thought that there was a God, then They think that if they do not accept God, then there is no punishment and they can do whatever they

But Vedic civilization says, No, that is not advancement. Not that you have constructed skyscraper buildings.

Śrīla Prabhupāda: It is not a question of religion. It is a question of science. So you may believe in the Christian religion and I may believe in the Hindu religion, but that does not mean that you are going to become an old man and I am not. It is not that because you are Christian you are becoming old or because I am Hindu I am not becoming

far as the Hindu religion is concerned, there are millions of Kṛṣṇa temples in India, and there is not a single Hindu who does not worship Kṛṣṇa. Therefore, this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is not a concocted idea.

At ISKCON’s Paris center Śrīla Prabhupāda talks with Cardinal Jean Daniélou: “The Bible does not simply say, ’Do not kill the human being.’ It says broadly, ’Thou shalt not kill.’… Why do you interpret this to suit your own convenience?

If you do not accept that Kṛṣṇa is the supreme entity, then try to understand. That is education: there is someone supreme; Kṛṣṇa is not Indian; He is God. The sun rises first in India, but that does not mean that the sun is Indian; similarly, although Kṛṣṇa

Śrīla Prabhupāda: Yes, God consciousness includes self-consciousness, but self-consciousness is not necessarily

Śrīla Prabhupāda: But the people do not. Their disease is that they don’t want to understand.

Visitor: I think understanding God is not a question of intelligence, but a question of humility.

Śrīla Prabhupāda: It is not a question of belief. Do not bring in this question of belief. You may believe or not believe, but if you break the law, you’ll be punished by the government.

Singh: Darwin says that the species are not created independently but are descended from one another.

The tiger does not come to eat your fruits. His prescribed food is animal flesh. So how can you say that animal killing is not a sin?