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<div class="heading">If you are thinking of universal way, how you can give protection to a human being born in America, and send a cow to the slaughterhouse. What is your reason?
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 10.8 -- New York, January 6, 1967|Lecture on BG 10.8 -- New York, January 6, 1967]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: As soon as you become Kṛṣṇa conscious, as soon as you become God conscious, then your real universal, ideal, universal consciousness develops. Otherwise it is all simply jugglery. There are so many doctrines of universal love, universal friendship, fraternity, but they are fighting, and they are killing simply, because there is no God consciousness. If you are universal, if you are after universal love, then how you can maintain regular slaughterhouse? How you can think that an American gentleman or lady is your countryman and not a cow, and not a goat, not a serpent? Where is your universal idea?</p>
<p>So unless there is development of God consciousness, this universal ideas, oh, these are nonsense. There cannot be. It is all false, jugglery of words. So first business is to understand your identity, identity of God, your relationship, and your action reformed in that way. Then there is question of universal, brotherhood, universal... Otherwise it is simply jugglery of words.</p>
<p>If you are thinking of universal way, how you can give protection to a human being born in America, and send a cow to the slaughterhouse. What is your reason?</p>
<p>Guest: This would be a personal love.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Universal means all. You have to love everyone.</p>
<p>Guest: If I didn't love the cow as equally with a child, then it is a personal love because I'm defining qualifications.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: But how can you avoid this personal?</p>
<p>Guest: Because to love the child only, I have to exclude other things, meaning the cow.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: But personal, child is the person. How can you avoid person?</p>
<p>Guest: How can what?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: How can you avoid person? When you love, how can you avoid a person? What do you mean by love? Whenever you love universally... In the universe there are so many men, animals, and plants, and beasts, and birds, and so many things. So we have to love everyone. That is universal. You cannot discriminate, "Oh, this is not universal. This is universal." Universal means all-including. So how you can avoid this person or imperson? You have to love everyone. That is universal.</p>
<p>Guest: If I don't do that, then I have a love with limitations, and this is false. This would be...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No. Not limitation. The point is: if you love the root, then you love everything. Just like if you pour water on the root of the tree, then the branches, the flowers, the leaves, the fruits, and everything is nourished. So you have to know the technique, how to love the whole. If somebody is loving the tree—he is putting water in each every leaf, every branch, every flower—he is spoiling his time. Another intelligent man goes and he pours one bucketful of water on the root. Oh, it is distributed. This is foolishness, that without knowledge of the root, you want to love the branches. Your body. You love your body. Why do you supply your food in the stomach? Why not to the eyes, to the ears, to the nose? Why not individually, every finger, every hand, every part, every hair? No. As soon as you put the foodstuff to the stomach, the energy is at once distributed everywhere. Similarly, universal love means to love God.</p>
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