Re: Entry 03

Nityananda Gauranga Hare Krishna!

Dear Guruji and devotees please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Sri Sri Gura and Gauranga.

The avoidance of eating eggs is a part of our regulations and we should never compromise that.  However I humbly beg to differ with the statement ‘eating an egg amounts to taking a life.’ It is absolutely true that the soul enters at the time of sexual intercourse but a hen lays eggs independent of the rooster’s fertilization. All eggs sold (in the west) are not fertile because the roosters are not housed with the laying hens. Unfertilized eggs are the chicken’s menstruation and to exhibit the unhygienic circumstances even stronger: they come through the same opening as the bowels.

As devotees we strive to offer sattvic foodstuffs because it is what Lord Sri Krishna Gauranga likes the most. By honoring sattvic prasadam both our bodies and minds are nourished and it calms and purifies our minds enabling it to function at its maximum potential in the execution of devotional service.

Your servant,

Hadai Nityananda dasa

Nityananda Gauranga Hare Krishna!

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