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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1976]]
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<div class="heading">Then that's a rascal. You explain it, explain to him that why they cannot make an egg by chemical composition and give for fermentation and a chicken may come. Why do they not do that? Why they are taking eggs from hens? Why do they not chemically manufacture egg?
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- June 8, 1976, Los Angeles|Morning Walk -- June 8, 1976, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Duryodhana-guru: This is Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu's special mercy.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: Śrīla Prabhupāda, you were explaining to the reporter yesterday that the difference between the animal and the human is that the animal cannot think of God; he has no religion. So, when the living entity is passing through these different species, he doesn't have sufficient knowledge of...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No knowledge. That is animal. That is animal.</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: Then how is he benefited? You explained it, as he is being promoted he is being corrected.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Corrected, yes.</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: But if he cannot understand God...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, there is no need of.... Different stages of body.... Just like you are going up one step, another step, another step. There is no need of going, "What is this?" But you are going up, step by step.</p>
<p>Mahendra: In the Bhagavad-gītā, you explain that one takes a specific birth due to a specific degree of lust.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, mental situation.</p>
<p>Candanācārya: Śrīla Prabhupāda, you once said that if someone is not attracted to chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa, that he is being punished by Yamarāja.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Āpana karama bhuñjāye śamana kahaye locana dāsa.</p>
<p>Dānavīr: Śrīla Prabhupāda, sometimes when we're preaching to people that we don't eat meat, fish or egg, they say,"Why not eggs? They're not actually living. It's just a, it hasn't been fertilized."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Then that's a rascal. You explain it, explain to him that why they cannot make an egg by chemical composition and give for fermentation and a chicken may come. Why do they not do that? Why they are taking eggs from hens? Why do they not chemically manufacture egg?</p>
<p>Bharadvāja: Must have life.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That is rascaldom. If that is a fact, that there is no life, then you prepare egg. What is there? Some white chemicals. A little yellow. You can do it.</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: Just like abortion. They have a process to take the egg from the hen, and they make sure that the egg will not grow into a chicken. It is like an abortion.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That's all right. The life is there. You make some arrangement that it will not take part. That is another thing. If it is a fact that the egg is not life, then why you rascal do not manufacture a chemical egg and get a chicken? Why you rascal talking nonsense? That is our challenge. We say "rascals" not without consideration, because actually they talk like nonsense. Rascals. They cannot do, and still they'll insist they will do. That is rascal. Is it all right? (laughs) South, South America, er, South Africa, there are so many factories of begetting chicken.</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: The Rainbow Chicken Factory.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, the chicken factory, but they're taking the eggs from chicken. Why not manufacture small egg and give to the fermentation and come? There is no question of killing animals. Why they are taking?</p>
<p>Rādhāvallabha: They say God has provided it for us for food.</p>
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