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<div class="heading">As it is suitable. It is not that because the kṣatriyas were killing by bows and arrows formerly, you have to continue that. That is another foolishness. If you have got... If you can kill easily by guns, take that gun. Just like formerly, parivrāja, Caitanya Mahāprabhu walked on the street. There was no aeroplane or... Or he did not use it. Does it mean that I shall have to follow that? I must take the jet engine. If it is available. If somebody criticizes, "Oh, Caitanya Mahāprabhu walked on leg and you are travelling in the jet plane?" Shall I have to take that ideal? These are rascaldom.
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Hṛdayānanda: So just to clarify, Prabhupāda, I want to make sure I have it very clear, that if someone comes to our ''varṇāśrama'' college, even though this may be preliminary help, in general—you've made some exceptions—but in general, when they come to our college, they have to follow the four regulative principles, also learn something about ''Bhagavad-gītā'' and then, side by side, they learn a particular . . .

Prabhupāda: Four regulative principles compulsory.

Hṛdayānanda: Yes.

Prabhupāda: But if some of the ''kṣatriya'' or the ''śūdra'', they want, so that is our prescription, "Go to the forest and kill some animal and eat that." That's all. You can kill one boar. Some disturbing elements, you can kill. You can kill some tiger. Like that. Learn to kill. No nonviolence. Learn to kill. Here also, as soon as you'll find the ''kṣatriya'', a thief, a rogue, unwanted element in the society, kill him. That's all. Finish. Kill him. ''Bās''. Finished. So others will see, "Oh, the ruler is very strong." And others will . . . one killing will be lesson for many hundreds and thousands. No mercy. "Kill him." That's all. That was the system. In Kashmir about hundred years ago, if somebody has stolen, cut his hand. ''Bās''. He cannot steal any more. So one cutting hand means finish. In that part of the world, no more stealing.

Yadubara: How would the ''kṣatriyas'' kill the animals?

Prabhupāda: Eh?

Yadubara: How would they kill? With guns, or bow and arrow?

Prabhupāda: That, as it is suitable. It is not that because the ''kṣatriyas'' were killing by bows and arrows formerly, you have to continue that. That is another foolishness. If you have got . . . if you can kill easily by guns, take that gun. Just like formerly, ''parivrāja'', Caitanya Mahāprabhu walked on the street. There was no aeroplane or . . . or He did not use it. Does it mean that I shall have to follow that? I must take the jet engine, if it is available. If somebody criticizes, "Oh, Caitanya Mahāprabhu walked on leg, and you are traveling in the jet plane?" shall I have to take that ideal? (chuckling) These are rascaldom. When you have to work, you have to work with the greatest facility. That's all. Now I have got the facility of the talking in microphone, and . . . so why should I not take it? It will be recorded. It will be heard by so many others. I am speaking to four, five men; it can be heard by a big crowd of four hundred men.

Viṣṇujana: So we should perpetuate this technical skill of . . .

Prabhupāda: No. We are not going to. But if somebody's interested doing, so we take it, make the best use of it.

Viṣṇujana: Oh, I see.

Prabhupāda: Just like we do not want money, but they are having money by so many ways. So we take their money and construct a temple. We can sit down here and chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. We don't require that temple. But these rascals are accumulating money for wine and women. Take their money, some way or other, and build a temple. And invite them, "Come and see." Give them ''prasādam''. This is our policy. We are not constructing big, big buildings and temples for our convenience. For their convenience. This is ''sannyāsī''.