“And similarly, similarly, guru also—no within, no without. Otherwise how we can say sākṣād-dharitvena? Directly. If you make distinction, how he can be directly?”   Srila Prabhupada’s Morning Walk – Bombay, February 23, 1974   Prabhupāda: This is also very good, good in this sense, that they do not eat without restriction. There is some restriction. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: To sacrifice. Prabhupāda: Yes. That if you want to eat meat and chicken, then you first of all sacrifice before the deity. So at least they’ll be restricted from eating meat purchased from slaughterhouse. But this rascal civilization, one side they’re advertising, “Stop cruelty to animals,” another side they’re opening unrestricted slaughterhouse.…

  Srila Prabhupada Morning Walk, January 9, 1974   Nitāi: January 9th, 1974, Los Angeles. Morning walk. (break) Prabhupāda: . . . origin of everything, animate or inanimate. Prajāpati: Jaya. Your lecture this morning was brilliant, Śrīla Prabhupāda. Your logic could defeat anybody. (Prabhupāda chuckles) The theological rascals, though, they will not accept any authority except their own mind. They are such nonsense. Prabhupāda: That is called mano-dharmī. In Sanskrit it is called mano-dharmī, mental speculators. Prajāpati: It’s a disease, actually. Prabhupāda: And therefore mental speculators, they have been condemned. Manorathenāsati dhāvato bahiḥ (SB 5.18.12). Because they carry on, or they are carried by, the chariot of mind, manorathena. Manorathena…

Srila Prabhupada Morning Walk, April 26, 1973 Devotee: (introducing recording) Prabhupāda’s morning walk. Los Angeles, April 26, 1973. Prabhupāda: . . . about animals not willing to die. Why? What is the psychology? Nobody wants to die. Svarūpa Dāmodara: They will ask, “How do I know that animals do not want to die?” Prabhupāda: That is another foolishness. As soon as you want to kill, it cries. Man or animal, anyone. Even the trees, they feel pain. That is also . . . you do not know that? Svarūpa Dāmodara: They’re conscious. Prabhupāda: No. They feel pain. You know Jagadisha Bose’s pulsitation . . .? What is called? Svarūpa Dāmodara:…

Kṛṣṇa-kāntī: (introducing recording) Śrīla Prabhupāda’s morning walk, recorded May 14th, 1973, at Cheviot Hills Park, in Los Angeles. Prabhupāda: The material energy, it is also coming from Kṛṣṇa. The spiritual en . . . Kṛṣṇa Himself is spiritual energy. Exactly like that is. This weather is coming from sun, but sun is covered. The weather created by sun makes himself covered; not himself covered, it is covering our eyes. Sun is not covered; my eyes are covered. Therefore material means when our consciousness is not developed. That’s the meaning. It is somehow or other covered. That is material. (aside) Where is our scientist? They . . . the mistake of…