Prabhupāda: And actually they are so. Because the consciousness is there. So this beauty of your country will be million times enhanced when there is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Otherwise it is dead.
Reporter lady: Erm . . . people have asked if . . . a lot of religions—I know that last night you talked about religions—have in the United States, have come into what they call social consciousness, which means establishing schools and giving money to causes, etc. And does Kṛṣṇa have anything like this for poor . . . the poor people? Ah . . .
Prabhupāda: Kṛṣṇa is not only for the poor people, for the animals also. You have got for the poor people but not for the animals. You send the animals to the slaughterhouse. Your love is like that, partial. You love the poor people but not the poor animals.
Reporter lady: Hmm.
Prabhupāda: Therefore your love is so limited and defective. And Kṛṣṇa conscious person not only loves the poor man but he loves the poor animals also—poor beast, insect, ants; he is so upright and so broadminded. These men, those who are after opening schools and hospitals, they cannot be compared even by thousand times fractional portion with this Kṛṣṇa consciousness. They are so upright.
Just like with this consciousness I am doing, I am at the age of seventy-six, seventy-seven years have left everything, and I'm trying to make them Kṛṣṇa conscious. I could have very easily retired and sit down and chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, but Kṛṣṇa consciousness is so, I mean to say, pushing, that even an old man like me, he is also working hard day and night. So who can be compared with a Kṛṣṇa conscious man? It is not possible. They are inspired by spiritual life, whereas others, they are already dead. What service they can do?
Reporter lady: Erm . . . people have asked me to ask you what . . . so, what . . . if you have any comparable . . . like what they call social actions.
Prabhupāda: Yes, social life, we are giving the best social service. Because the whole society is under darkness, because the man does not know what is the aim of life . . .
Reporter lady: Hmm.
Prabhupāda: . . . what is his constitutional position, what is his duty. Everyone is engaged in some business as gaḍḍālikā-pravāha, it is called in Sanskrit, gaḍḍālikā-pravāha, or bheḍyadāsana: one man is doing, "Oh, I shall do it." One man is doing some sort of work, andha yathāndhair upānīya (SB 7.5.31). They do not consider that this man is . . .
The example is given, in India it is called bheḍīya-kaṭa. Bheḍīya-kaṭa means . . . bheḍī means lamb. The lambs are taken in the slaughterhouse in flocks, and in the slaughterhouse if one lamb is somehow or other pushed, all the lambs will go. They have no sense that where we are going. They simply follow, that if one lamb has got in, "So let us all go in." You see?
So this is going on. They do not know by their process of so-called humanitarian work, there are all entering into the slaughterhouse; but one man has entered, so let him enter—without understanding why I . . . where I am entering and what . . . what I am going to do. There is no consideration. The nature's slaughterhouse . . .
Now we are thinking that, "I am eating very nicely by slaughtering a cow," but he does not know that he will be also be slaughtered. This is nature's law. Just like if you kill a man, then you will be killed. Similarly, in God's law if you kill an animal, the animal will kill you again. He does not know; therefore that is going on, and one is entered in the slaughterhouse, "Let me enter also." This is going on.
Reporter lady: You said that if one kills an animal the animal will kill you again . . .
Prabhupāda: Oh, yes.
Reporter lady: In another life?
Prabhupāda: Oh, yes. Why not?
Reporter lady: Hmm. Why are so many young people, for instance, why have they become interested in joining the Hare Kṛṣṇa?
Prabhupāda: Because they are reasonable. When I speak like this, they appreciate; therefore they come to me. I don't ask them to follow me blindly. I always speak to them philosophy, logic, and their intelligence will come though.