TEXT 18

yas tv iha va asamvibhajyasnati yat kincanopanatam anirmita-panca-
yajno vayasa-samstutah sa paratra krmibhojane narakadhame nipatati
tatra sata-sahasra-yojane krmi-kunde krmibhutah svayam krmibhir
eva bhaksyamanah krmi-bhojano yavat tad aprattaprahutado 'nirvesam
atmanam yatayate.

yah - any person who; tu - but; iha - in this life; va - or; asam-vibhajya - without dividing; asnati - eats; yat kincana - whatever; upanatam - obtained by Krsna's grace; anirmita - not performing; panca-yajnah - the five kinds of sacrifice; vayasa - with the crows; samstutah - who is described as equal; sah - such a person; paratra - in the next life; krmibhojane - named Krmibhojana; naraka-adhame - into the most abominable of all hells; nipatati - falls down; tatra - there; sata-sahasra-yojane - measuring 100,000 yojanas (800,000 miles); krmi-kunde - in a lake of worms; krmi-bhutah - becoming one of the worms; svayam - he himself; krmibhih - by the other worms; eva - certainly; bhaksyamanah - being eaten; krmi-bhojanah - eating worms; yavat - as long as; tat - that lake is wide; pratta-aprahuta - unshared and unoffered food; adah - on who eats; anirvesam - who has not performed atonement; atmanam - to himself; yatayate - gives pain.

TRANSLATION

A person is considered no better than a crow if after receiving some food, he does not divide it among guests, old men and children, but simply eats it himself, or if he eats it without performing the five kinds of sacrifice. After death he is put into the most abominable hell, known as Krmibhojana. In that hell is a lake 100,000 yojanas [800,000 miles] wide and filled with worms. He becomes a worm in that lake and feeds on the other worms there, who also feed on him. Unless he atones for his actions before his death, such a sinful man remains in the hellish lake of Krmibhojana for as many years as there are yojanas in the width of the lake.

PURPORT

If we do not perform yajna and distribute prasada to others, our lives are condemned. Only after performing yajna and distributing the prasada to all dependants - children, brahmanas and old men - should one eat. However, one who cooks only for himself or his family is condemned, along with everyone he feeds. After death he is put into the hell known as Krmibhojana.

It is an indisputed fact that Srila Prabhupada made it perfectly clear that when even an enemy visits your home, he should be treated the same way one would treat God. It is also well known to the members of our movement that he also ordered that no one, within a ten mile radius of our centers, should go hungry.

Now, regarding my situation, they are not even willing to sell it to me, despite the fact, that, as quoted previously, Srila Prabhupada wrote: "Let the whole world come. We can feed them."

I have made repeated and exhaustive attempts to explain to them that I've never learned how to prepare a nutritionally balanced vegetarian diet, without meat, fish or eggs in it, what to speak of, without anything containing garlic, onions or mushrooms, which are all, according to the scriptures, considered substandard ingredients; and, in addition to that, a diet without grains, cooked by karmis (a term, commonly used, by the members of the Hare Krsna movement, to refer to non-devotees); which, Srila Prabhupada taught, is essential, not only for our health, but also for substantial and tangible progress in our practice of spiritual development, as well. I have, further informed some of them, that Srila Prabhupada also said, "If we do eat these foods, we will fall down (from our position of spiritual emancipation)." I also recall reading, that he even stated, we should, verily, not eat anything cooked by karmis. Yet, despite all my pleas detailing my difficulties, like the fact, that because I've never learned how to cook an essentially, balanced, nutritional, vegetarian diet, and have, therefore noticed, that practically everything you find, which is already prepared by non-devotees, contains forbidden, or, at best, those ingredients, which, according to scriptures, like the Bhagavad-gita, are considered substandard, what to speak of the fact, that we have been duly instructed to strictly avoid food prepared by non-devotees, they have consistently, simply been ignoring me, and while considering me nothing more than, just an "annoyance," as previously mentioned by Mother Blanca Meeker in her statement, would often, even go so far, as to literally, close the gate in my face, just to avoid having to even see me standing there, hungry.

In attachment 5b of the Petition for Injunction Prohibiting Harassment, entitled (Further description of incidents of abuse) under the subheading of January 20, 2000, Caitanya Bhagavata Prabhu (George Connor) wrote: The police advised us to get a picture of G. Regosin, too close to the temple, or too close to Rebecca L., who already had a restraining order against him, however, what he, so conveniently, failed to point out, was that Judge David J. Danielson, the one who presided over the court case with Mother Becky (Rebecca Lucero), made it perfectly clear that the following copy of the restraining order he issued, was in no way, to be construed as an order restricting me from going anywhere near, or, for that matter, even within the temple property, and what he obviously, purposefully left out, is how, the night he is referring to, in his complaint (which was the first night I had returned to the vicinity, after receiving the restraining order I was issued, because of so many lies told by Mother Becky (Rebecca Lucero) in the courtroom), Mother Becky (Rebecca Lucero) was actually, running after me while he, Caitanya Bhagavata Prabhu (George Connor), was literally, running right behind her, frantically taking pictures with his polaroid camera, in an attempt to either force me to leave the vicinity of the San Diego ISKCON Hare Krsna Community, or have me arrested for violating the restraining order. If you have the pictures subpoenaed, as evidence for the court case, you will notice, that I was always running away from her, although I had every right to stay right there, where I was. Immediately after the trial with Mother Becky (Rebecca Lucero), I asked the bailiff, if she (Mother Becky, aka Rebecca Lucero), could be used as a weapon, to keep my away from the temple, to which the bailiff, emphatically answered, "No!"