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Why you should neglect the animal community

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"Why you should neglect the animal community"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1974 Conversations and Morning Walks

Why you should neglect the animal community?
Morning Walk -- February 17, 1974, Bombay:

Prabhupāda: I have already told you, you are śānta-rasa bhakta. [break] ...originally, as spirit soul, everyone is Vaiṣṇava. Everyone is Vaiṣṇava.

Dr. Patel: No, but by, by, by saṁskāras, birth. Our saṁskāra, Vaiṣṇava-saṁskāra. Whole community of us. (pause)

Prabhupāda: So why you are becoming ex-community?

Dr. Patel: I am... No. That is not... There is only one community and that is also many people. All of us one. The animal communities are there.

Prabhupāda: So that is also another community. If you take simply humanity, that is another community.

Dr. Patel: Then all communities are including...

Prabhupāda: Why you should neglect the animal community?

Dr. Patel: That's right. That is right.

Prabhupāda: That is also community.

Dr. Patel: That is why twenty-four avatāras have been shown to us in Bhāgavata, from fish to the highest.

Prabhupāda: Paṇḍitāḥ sama-darśinaḥ [Bg. 5.18]. If one is paṇḍita, he does not make any distinction between animal community and human community.

Dr. Patel: Śuni caiva śva-pāke ca

Prabhupāda: Ah, that is paṇḍita. As soon as you see, "This is animal community, this is human community," then you are not paṇḍita. You are still in, equal learning. Brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā na śocati na kāṅkṣati, samaḥ sarveṣu bhūteṣu [Bg. 18.54].

Dr. Patel: Mad-bhaktiṁ labhate parām.

Prabhupāda: That is real vision.
Page Title:Why you should neglect the animal community
Compiler:Laksmipriya
Created:16 of Dec, 2008
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1