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<h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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When our student become serious to be initiated, we ask that you must give up these four prohibited principles. (child talking) So, no illicit sex life, no gambling, no meat-eating . . . (aside) Who is talking outside? . . . and no intoxication. So it is very difficult for the Western people to give up all these four principles of life, because these things are ordinary dealings. Here people are accustomed to all these habits from the very beginning.
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[[Vanisource:730211 - Lecture BG 03.36-37 - Melbourne|730211 - Lecture BG 03.36-37 - Melbourne]]
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If I say, outsider that, "You come early in the morning and you take your bath and engage yourself maṅgala-ārati and do this," he will not be able. Unless one has developed a sense of service to Kṛṣṇa, one cannot do it. It is not so easy. It is not so easy. This is the proof that one has become freed from all sinful reaction. Because phalena paricīyate. We have to understand by the result.

As soon as you see one man is sitting on the bench of the high court, you must know he is very learned man and learned lawyer—he has passed already. That is the test. You cannot ask a high court judge, "Have you passed your M.A. examination?" No. There is no need of questioning. Because he is sitting on that high court bench, it is to be understood that he is a learned scholar, he is great lawyer; therefore government has given this post. Similarly, as soon as we see somebody is engaged in Kṛṣṇa's regulative service, you should know that he is above all kinds of reaction of sinful life. This is the proof.

Now, we prescribe four regulative principles. When our student become serious to be initiated, we ask that you must give up these four prohibited principles. (child talking) So, no illicit sex life, no gambling, no meat-eating . . .

(aside) Who is talking outside?

. . . and no intoxication. So it is very difficult for the Western people to give up all these four principles of life, because these things are ordinary dealings. Here people are accustomed to all these habits from the very beginning.
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