Tremendous number of people being vegetarians today | Mahadeva’s Mother

Prabhupada, July 25, 1973, London: […] So similarly, if I take milk from the cows, that is also cow’s blood, but I don’t kill it. So if I can live in such nice way, without killing, I get the fruits and flowers and the milk and the grains, why should I kill the animals?
Mother: There’re a tremendous number of people being vegetarians today.
Prabhupada: Yes.
Mother: You’re not the only people. I mean, a lot of people just have, yes, they do…
Prabhupada: That is nice. That is nice, very nice. They should be vegetarian.

Mother: …but we don’t condemn people who do.
Prabhupada: That will make them less sinful. And that will qualify them to go back to home, back to Godhead. If they remain sinful, they cannot go.
Jesuit Priest: Would you say that because we—and I talk about myself—because I have meat and bacon and so on, I am a, does that make me sinful? If I didn’t eat those, I would be less sinful?
Prabhupada: Yes. Yes. That is our philosophy.
Jesuit Priest: So if I give up eating meat and bacon and sausages and things, I’ll suddenly become a different person.
Prabhupada: Then you become pure. You become pure.
Revatinandana: Yes. Yes.
Jesuit Priest: That’s very interesting.
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