By Mahavishnu Goswami
Our house must be converted into a temple. We may not be able to go temple daily. But our house must be a temple. Otherwise as human being we are missing the point. We have regulated our food habits by Srila Prabhupada's mercy. Never touch eggs, fish, meat. When the animal is dead - how can it give any strength or energy for you ? Dead body is dead body - rotten and full of poisons. How can it nourish us? Our grains are alive. Rice, wheat grains have millions of living cells squeezed in them by Krishna. It has nourishing effect. So children should be taught to be merciful to animals also, other living entities also. We should be merciful to everybody except ourselves. Else we will get up at 10 am. We should get up at 3:30 am. We should not eat anything that is not cooked in our house. This is the best way to save ourselves from violence and disease. As soon as you become non-violent you don't trouble anybody, then your house becomes like Vaikuntha - otherwise you yell like anything at each other even for a little misunderstanding. Shouting and screaming is there - That is not the house. Please.. our whole life should stand on this principle if we really want to satisfy Krishna. Krishna is really satisfied if you are merciful to others, merciful to the cows.