Prabhupāda: ...if to kill a tiger who is coming to attack you and to kill an innocent animal in the slaughter house, do you think it is the same thing?
Guest: No.
Prabhupāda: Then?
Guest: But in terms of God consciousness it must be.
Prabhupāda: But God consciousness does not mean that he is a grand fool. That he will not kill a tiger who is coming to attack him, he is not a fool.
Guest: In religious thoughts...
Prabhupāda: There is no religious thought. You have come to attack me, I must kill you first.
Guest: Why?
Prabhupāda: Why, because you are my enemy.
Guest: But, eh according to the Christian teachings you should love your neighbour.
Prabhupāda: But that is not our teaching that we shall become a grand fool, somebody is coming to attack me and kill me and I shall say, "yes sir kill me, yeah you are very good". That is not our philosophy... If somebody.
Papworth: Do you not accept...
Prabhupāda: Generally I don't want to kill you but if you become my enemy, if you want to kill me, I must kill you first. That is Kṛṣṇa. That is means. Just like Arjuna.
Guest: If God is in the form of all living.
Prabhupāda: Whatever it may be but on the material platform I may be God conscious you may not be God conscious, then why you should come to kill me? So it is not our philosophy that anyone comes to attack you, a tiger, we shall embrace them, "yes sir, come on kill me." That is not our philosophy. If you are aggressor, if you are coming to attack me, so it is my first duty to kill you first.
Guest: By what right?
Prabhupāda: Eh?
Guest: By what right?
Prabhupāda: Because you are my enemy.
Guest: That doesn't seem to. That creates a division.
Prabhupāda: This is useless argument, if enemy you must be killed. Must be killed. That is the whole philosophy of Bhagavad-gītā. That as God conscious person Arjuna, you have read Bhagavad-gītā? He was sensitively, "no, no why should I kill" but Kṛṣṇa said.
Dr. Schumacher: I know that. Yes.
Prabhupāda: Yes, Arjuna was hesitating.
Dr. Schumacher: He was hesitating, yes.
Prabhupāda: Yes hesitating but Kṛṣṇa said no.
Dr. Schumacher: [indistinct].
Prabhupāda: You must kill them because they are enemy, this is our philosophy.
Type: Conversation
Date: Aug. 4, 1973
Location: London
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