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Prabhu: If a person doesn’t wear clothes in the wintertime and gets sick thinking that he is very austere, and so he doesn’t need to wear almost anything, that is also based on ignorance? HH BVPS Maharaja: Yes, based on ignorance. Austerity means the proper performance of your duty.

Kṛṣṇa, Who, being God, could eat anything, He has chosen these particular things to eat because out of all the different tastes they are the most developed and refined. So it is a nice direction to go towards. But I would say more important is to learn how to cook.

Rules and regulations aren't the problem. It's not understanding them, that's the problem. Because if you understand them, they are fine. Like devotees, when we say "samskaras", "Why do we have to do samskaras? What's the big deal?" Like that. But if you think about it, okayy, the parents like