Prabhupāda: One press reporter in the Berkeley University in the beginning, he wrote his article, and he wrote that, "After hearing this Hare Kṛṣṇa for a few minutes, I came home chanting all the road, 'Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa.' " He gave this report.
Dharmādhyakṣa: I think many scholars have a hard time realizing how just by chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa . . .
Prabhupāda: Yes, it is so nice and so easy.
Dharmādhyakṣa: . . . that the highest philosophical realization can come from chanting.
Dr. Mize: (accepting prasādam) Thank you.
Devotee: Mrs. Salim has given these flowers and clock.
Jayatīrtha: That gentleman who came over last night, he has brought this present.
Prabhupāda: Take. (eating prasādam)
Dr. Mize: This is delicious.
Prabhupāda: Now you can take. Kṛṣṇa has given us so many nice things. Why should we kill the poor animals? That's not good. Because na samaḥ, there is no such vision, samaḥ sarveṣu bhūteṣu. He is not a brahmin. He is giving the dog a bad name and hang it. "Animal has no soul." What is this? Animal has no soul?
Bahulāśva: Sometimes they argue that we're killing the vegetables.
Prabhupāda: That's all right. Vegetable has also life, but we are not killing. When you pluck out the flower, the tree is not killed. When you take a fruit, the tree is not killed. When you take grains, automatically they die, then you take the grains. There is no question of killing. But even it is killing, it is not as murderous as killing a cow. Why the state hangs a man when he kills a man? The man can plead that, "So many animals are being killed every day. If I kill one man, what is the wrong there?" The punishment is that "You have killed one important animal." Therefore the Bhaga . . . kṛṣi-go-rakṣya (BG 18.44), that cow should be protected because it is a very, very important animal. It does not say "other animal." Or does not say "all animals." He said cows, because important. It's supplying you milk, so important food. She is your mother, and you are killing mother? Is that your civilization, killing mother? "Mother is old, and mother is no more supplying milk. Kill." Is there any such sanction? Rather, old mother is given more protection. And what is this civilization, killing the mother? In the morning we require milk immediately, and the mother cow is supplying. And when she cannot supply, kill her. What is this philosophy?
Bahulāśva: I was lecturing in the University of Marin in San Francisco. So I was explaining that, and one man said: "This is just your sentiment. You just have some sentiment." So I asked him if he had a dog. And he said: "Yes." So I said that "When your dog becomes old, will you kill it?" So he said: "No, why shall I kill it? It's a good dog." So . . .
Prabhupāda: Dog is good; cow is bad. Dog is creating always nasty things, and cow is so pure, even the stool is pure, and she has to be killed.
Dr. Mize: The question has been asked about the unfertilized eggs, why they should not be eaten.
Prabhupāda: Unfertilized, but there is potency of fertilization. You check the progress of one living entity coming out of it.
Dr. Mize: Once the egg is laid, there is no chance for it to be fertilized.