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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1977]]
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<div class="heading">No, you can do it.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversations -- July 7, 1977, Vrndavana|Room Conversations -- July 7, 1977, Vrndavana]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Just see. For cutting the throat of cow, he's going thousands of miles. This is the civilization. He's an expert butcher, and he has got service in Australia, and he'll go. This is livelihood, personal duty. What a nonsense business, and he's going to... Mā jīva vā māra. A butcher is advised, "Don't die; don't live. If you live, it is a horrible business, and if you die, you'll go to hell. So don't die; don't live."</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: He has a question to ask. He says, "Is it permitted to use shells for making jewelry, crowns, etc., for Deities? Or is it to be considered as the bone of an animal?"</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, you can do it.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: 'Cause they're very beautiful.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: The bone of animal is the conchshell, and that is used in Deity room. It is... The conchshell is nothing but bone of an animal.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Right. He says that he has a plan. "We want to inlay the thrones for the new temple with beautiful shells if it is permitted."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Oh, yes.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: He's says he's trying to increase the book distribution by arranging a big door-to-door program.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That is my earnest desire. Fulfill it.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: That's all he has to say. That was all the mail that came.</p>
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