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Question: We are ever so grateful to you and to Srila Prabhupada, and cannot stop thanking both of you for your mercy. One question, please pardon me if it seems a little odd. You said the episode of Srila Prabhupada picking the cockroach by the back and a big cockroach, and then throwing it out of the window. Srila Prabhupada was very fearless and all, but guru Maharaj when I see a cockroach, the first thing that comes to mind is to kill it, say Hare Krishna and kill it. What should we do to be like you and Srila Prabhupada to be magnanimous and let that thing go. Flies and all are ok, but cockroach is deadly!

Guru Maharaj: You know. I know. So, you know Srila Prabhupada, unnecessarily, he did not kill any animal. Any insect. Even in Calcutta, we had a dark blue, velvet curtain in his room. Then Srila Prabhupada, said that it attracts many mosquitoes. So then the devotees...
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