C. Hennis, May 31, 1974, Geneva: […] So it’s the whole bovine race that’s protected, and not just the cows themselves, not just the female cows?
Prabhupada: No, both the male and female. The bullocks are used for so many other purposes. They can till the field. They can be used for transportation, so many other purposes.
Or even we are spreading Krishna consciousness. During Krishna’s time… Krishna was born of a very well-to-do father, but at that time the bullocks were engaged for transportation from one village to another, one village to another.
Or for carrying goods. Actually the United Nations should now think how the whole human society can live peacefully for a purpose of life, not whimsically, without any purpose of life. Now, anywhere… We are preaching. We are going everywhere.
If I ask any gentleman, any philosopher, any scientist , if I ask him that “What is the purpose of life?” he cannot explain. That means there is lack of intelligent class of men. Nobody knows what is the purpose of life.
C. Hennis: Well, I think that the International Labor Organization is devoted to the reduction of inequalities between the different classes of men with a view to getting them all a better share of the good things of life, and by that, they may begin to reach a greater degree of human happiness, as they understand it, as the people themselves understand it. It may be that they don’t understand it well.
Prabhupada: No. Nature’s way is not better share, but equal share. Just like when you take foodstuff, put it in the stomach, and when it is easily digested and transformed into different secretion and comes to the heart and becomes blood, there is equal distribution.
Not that because brain is first-class, therefore the blood transformation to the brain should go more. No. Then it will be blood pressure, high blood pressure. This is nature’s way, that… But when the energy goes to the brain, it acts differently. When the energy goes to the hands, it acts differently.
The electricity energy is the same, but sometimes by working on the dictaphone, sometimes on the microphone, sometimes in electric heater, sometimes in refrigerator… The different apparatuses are there, but the energy is the same, equal.
In that sense, the communistic idea that whatever energy is there, whatever resources are there, they should be equally distributed, that is nature’s way. From the body we can understand that when the foodstuff turns into secretion, it goes to the heart and becomes blood. The blood is transfused through different veins to different parts of the body, and you will find everybody is satisfied.
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