“They are in dog consciousness;
we have to raise them to God consciousness“
To Love God or Dog?
Prabhupāda: Have you not seen how a man is controlled by a dog? In the street the dog stops, passes stool, and his master will stand and wait. Is it not? He is passing stool and urine, and the master is thinking, “I am master.” But he is being controlled. That is māyā. He has become servant of the dog, but he is thinking, “I am master.” So unless one is Kṛṣṇa conscious, one cannot understand. We can understand that this rascal is being controlled by his dog, but he is thinking that he is the master. We can understand. What do you think? Has he not become controlled by the dog?
I have repeatedly explained that if somebody has no master to serve, he voluntarily accepts a cat or dog as his master to serve. The nice name is pet dog, but it is serving. The mother serves the child. So one who has no child, he takes the cat as her child and serves. Instead of loving God, his propensity to love is diverted in loving a dog.
Therefore when the soul transmigrates the consciousness is also there in another body. But this consciousness, if I take God consciousness, then I go to God. And if I take dog consciousness, I go to dog. That’s all. The consciousness is there. Therefore we have to purify our consciousness. Instead of dog consciousness we have to make it God consciousness. That will be our perfection of life. Otherwise, the consciousness which you carry at the time of your death, you get a similar body. There are 8,400,000 species of life, and we may think of in a varied way. That is the technique of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. At the time of, if we keep our Kṛṣṇa consciousness intact, that is our perfection of life. Otherwise we do not know what is my next life. (SB lecture, Los Angeles, December 2, 1968)
Prabhupāda: Yes. To awaken their Kṛṣṇa consciousness. They are in dog consciousness; we have to raise them to God consciousness. Don’t you see how much they are taking care of the dog? Because they do not know, blind, whether they will be God conscious or dog conscious. So the dog conscious people should be raised to the platform of God conscious. That is preaching. Mūḍha nābhijānāti. These rascals, they do not know the life is meant for understanding God. That they… Ask anyone. Nobody knows. They are so fool. They want to remain dog. The dog is also running; they are also running. And because they can run on by car, they are thinking they are civilized. But the business is running, that’s all. (Morning Walk, July 8, 1975, Chicago)
“Therefore your brain requires to be thoroughly washed
to become civilized, Kṛṣṇa conscious“
BRAINWASHING-— SRILA PRABHUPADA IN RESPONSE TO THE DEPROGRAMMERS WHO KIDNAP THE DEVOTEES AND TRY TO BRAINWASH THEM INTO LEAVING KRSNA CONSCIOUSNESS (JAN 11 1977 INDIA)
Prabhupāda: Yes. We are brainwashing from bad to good. That is our business. We are washing the brain from all rascaldom. That is our business. You are… Your brain is filled up with all rubbish things: meat-eating and illicit sex, gambling. So we are washing them. Ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanam [Cc. Antya 20.12]. Śṛṇvatāṁ sva-kathāḥkṛṣṇaḥ puṇya-śravaṇa-kīrtanaḥ, hrdy antaḥ-stho abhadrāṇi [SB 1.2.17]. Abhadrānī washing. Abhadrāṇi means bad things. The bad things should be washed off. Don’t you cleanse your home? Don’t you cleanse your room? Is not that brainwashing? So if you wash your room very cleansed, who blames you? But you are so rascal that “Why you are washing this garbage?” you are protesting. You are such an intelligent man. We are washing the garbage; you are protesting, “Why you are washing the garbage?” This is your intelligence. But intelligent men wash the garbage. That is the law of nature, cleanse. That we are doing. According to Vedic civilization, you are actually untouchable. Now we have come to touch you; therefore wash you must first. You are untouchable. In Indian civilization, dog is untouchable, and that is your best friend. So you are not touchable. Therefore we have to wash you. And unless your brain is washed, you cannot understand Kṛṣṇa. So it is necessary. Is that all right?Dog is your best friend. In India dog is untouchable. So “Man is known by his company.” If your best friend is dog, then what you are? We can understand your position because you sleep with dog, you eat with dog, your best friend is dog, so what you are? You must be washed. It is a fact. Every woman, every man, has some dog.
Jagadīśa: Dog or cat.
Prabhupāda: Mostly dog. So “Man is known by his company.” Your constant company is dog, so what you are? These are the way. Actually, according to Vedic… Why they do not allow Europeans in the Jagannātha temple? Because they are untouchable. According to Vedic civilization, Europeans are untouchable. Muslims and…, untouchable. Not only foreigners, even in their own country, those who are not very cleansed, they are untouchable. Another’s eatable things, they’re untouchable. Just like hog. If you give him halavā,(a sweet) he will not take it. He will eat stool. Therefore hog is so abominable. Similarly, in your country there are so many nice foodstuffs. Milk is so abundant. You do not know how to utilize milk. You are cutting the poor animal and the rotten flesh you are.(eating).. You do not know how to utilize the milk. Milk is nothing but blood. Those who are eating, drinking milk with different varieties of preparation, they are also utilizing the blood. But you are drinking blood and flesh directly. You do not know how to keep the animals alive and supply you constantly the blood and eat it.(he’s talking of milk here) (Utilize?) That you do not know. You are so uncivilized. The man in the jungle, they eat meat because they do not know—they are not civilized—how to utilize the by-products. So you’re now in the same position. You do not know how to utilize the blood of cow scientifically. You are so uncivilized. You become… What is milk? The milk is nothing but blood.
Jagadīśa: Even in the Bible…
Prabhupāda: No, no. Apart from Bible, I am speaking from practical point of view. What is milk? Milk is blood. If the mother is unhealthy, anemic, you cannot keep. It dries away.(?) Milk is transformed from the blood. That’s a fact. Now our cows in New Vrindaban, they are supplying more milk than in other farms. So you do not know how to utilize blood. You are so uncivilized. And you are claiming to be civilized. You are untouchable. You do not know what is the… Yes, in our New Vrindaban the men from other farms, they come. They are surprised. “Milk can give, this much?”(?) You know that? They are uncivilized, cutthroat. And therefore they are now eating better. You are not civilized. Don’t talk of anything. First of all be civilized. Give up sin, sinful activities. Then come to understand what is God.
Jagadīśa: In the Kṛṣṇa book you describe that the only person who can’t understand Kṛṣṇa consciousness is the killer of the cow.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Animal. Why cow? Any animal.
nivṛtta-tarṣair upagīyamānād / bhavauṣadhāc chrotra-mano ‘bhirāmāt
ka uttamaśloka-guṇānuvādāt / pumān virajyeta vinā paśughnāt
[SB 10.1.4]
Unless one is animal-killer, everyone welcomes God. This very word is used, vināpaśughnāt. Excepting these persons who are animal killers, everyone will welcome Kṛṣṇa. It is so nasty thing, animal-killing. So you require thoroughly to be washed. Then you’ll understand. Actually it is brainwashing. Civilized man, in the presence of so many nice grains, fruits, flowers, vegetables, milk, so many things, and you are eating meat like the man in the jungle? Are you civilized? Does it mean that the fruit, flowers and grains is meant for animals? It is meant for human beings. You do not know how to utilize it. You are in the state of the animals. You kill animals and eat. Don’t claim that you are civilized. Therefore your brain requires to be thoroughly washed to become civilized. Therefore your brain requires to be thoroughly washed to become civilized, Kṛṣṇa conscious. Then talk of civilization. Therefore Jesus Christ first of all requested you “Don’t kill.” That is also brainwash, cleanse your brain. But you could not take the brainwash. Your brain is congested with so much dirty things that you could not take the instruction of Jesus Christ, and you claim to be Christian. Be ashamed. Don’t come forward. Be ashamed. You have no shame even. You are so—what is called?—fool that you do not know what is defective. What is that English proverb? “Fools rush in where angels dare not.” You are such a fool that you are running in to obstruct Kṛṣṇa consciousness, which is… Even the demigods, they aspire after it. You are such a fool. You are rushing in. So we take pity upon you, and therefore we are trying to expand Kṛṣṇa consciousness. But be sane; don’t talk insanity. [break]
Some Conclusions—this article is meant to try to wake up everyone who is still in this kind of illusion-that dog keeping is for the dogs, not for human beings who are on the path of purification, self realization and ultimately God Consciousness. I know some “devotees” who keep dogs, and then wash them before they bring them into their homes, thinking that now– they are clean ! Srila Prabhupada above very clearly and very adamantly stresses that these types of “devotees” need to have their brains washed, otherwise they are “untouchable”. And the irony is when you disclose these facts to them, they only get mad at you….. sorry if I offended you….. but not really….if the shoe fits, then wear it, as the saying goes…
Hare Krsna
Damaghosa das
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