Jayapataka Swami: Well, Śrīla Prabhupāda would scold the devotees in Calcutta, for placing a dark blue velvet curtain, which attracted many mosquitoes, and then devotees would kill the mosquitoes. Śrīla Prabhupāda would say, you are attracting them and then killing them. So, you should put some other curtain, which would not attract so many mosquitoes. So, if a mosquito is biting us, we may kill it in self-defense,but we should avoid just killing mosquitoes. Śrīla Prabhupāda would have the dhuna or the frankincense burn in his room and the windows open, and the mosquitoes would fly out. Haridāsa Ṭhākura said that if we loudly chant, then insects and plants would reap the benefit, by hearing the holy name. There was someone, they took in regression to his previous life, and he said in his previous life he was a butterfly. He went into some place, where there was a statue and there was a fruit in front of the statue.He landed on the fruit to eat the fruit, and someone came out and killed him. In the next life he was a human being, a devotee,so in this case, it seemed that he was eating the fruit offering offered to a Deity of Kṛṣṇa,we don’t know Kṛṣṇa’s Deity or someone else.
19-June-2020 SRI DHAM MAYAPUR, INDIA
