If you are thinking of universal way, how you can give protection to a human being born in America, and send a cow to the slaughterhouse

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So unless there is development of God consciousness, this universal ideas, oh, these are nonsense. There cannot be. It is all false, jugglery of words. So first business is to understand your identity, identity of God, your relationship, and your action reformed in that way. Then there is question of universal, brotherhood, universal... Otherwise it is simply jugglery of words.If you are thinking of universal way, how you can give protection to a human being born in America, and send a cow to the slaughterhouse. What is your reason?
Guest: This would be a personal love.
Prabhupada: Universal means all. You have to love everyone.
Guest: If I didn't love the cow as equally with a child, then it is a personal love because I'm defining qualifications.
Prabhupada: But how can you avoid this personal?
Guest: Because to love the child only, I have to exclude other things, meaning the cow.
Prabhupada: But personal, child is the person. How can you avoid person?
Guest: How can what?
Prabhupada: How can you avoid person? When you love, how can you avoid a person? What do you mean by love?  You cannot discriminate, "Oh, this is not universal. This is universal." Universal means all-including. So how you can avoid this person or imperson? You have to love everyone. That is universal.
Guest: If I don't do that, then I have a love with limitations, and this is false. This would be...
Prabhupada: No. Not limitation. The point is: if you love the root, then you love everything. Just like if you pour water on the root of the tree, then the branches, the flowers, the leaves, the fruits, and everything is nourished. So you have to know the technique, how to love the whole. If somebody is loving the tree--he is putting water in each every leaf, every branch, every flower--he is spoiling his time. Another intelligent man goes and he pours one bucketful of water on the root. Oh, it is distributed. This is foolishness, that without knowledge of the root, you want to love the branches. Your body. You love your body. Why do you supply your food in the stomach? Why not to the eyes, to the ears, to the nose? Why not individually, every finger, every hand, every part, every hair? No. As soon as you put the foodstuff to the stomach, the energy is at once distributed everywhere. Similarly, universal love means to love God.
   They do not know the technique. Just this man, this hunter, he loved God, and he became lover of the ant automatically. There was no need of separate education that "You love this ant, you love this cow, you love this tree, love this country, love this man, love white man, black man, this man..." No. As soon as you love God, and you understand what is God, then you love everything. In the Bhagavad-gita it is said that

                      sarva-yonisu kaunteya
                     murtayah sambhavanti yah
                     tasam brahma mahad yonir
                      aham bija-pradah pita

People are accepting Bhagavad-gita as something Indian or Hindu, but actually it is not. It is universal. Krsna says that there are so many forms of living entities. There are 8,400,000 different types of bodies. "And all of them are My sons." So if you love Krsna, then you love white man, you love American, you love European, you love Indian, you love cow, you love dog, you love serpent--everything.
   So you have to know the techniques. Simply by theoretical knowledge you cannot make any improvement. And these are practical examples. Because there is no love for God at the present moment, all this nonsense universal love, fraternity, are going to hell. Therefore we are interested in this Krsna consciousness movement. You have to change your consciousness, make it full with Krsna or God. Then everything will be all right. All right. Thank you. And if you kindly come and inquire in this way, we shall be very glad to answer as far as possible.