"Just like in India, during the British days, there were Hindu-Moslem riots, and the Hindus would go to the Moslem mosques and break everything, thinking, 'We have broken their God', and the Moslems would go to the Hindu temples and break the idol, thinking, 'We have killed the Hindu God.'
This is foolishness.
Also, during Gandhi's noncooperation movement, people rioted and broke anything belonging to the government, especially the post boxes on the street. They thought that by breaking them, they were destroying the post office, or the government.
This is the foolishness of the iconoclasts.
But those who have a true conception of God do not quarrel with each other.
All throughout history there is some religious fight: Hindu against Moslem, Christian against non-Christian.
God is God.
He has no material qualification. the iconographers imagine, 'God is like this or that', but the man in knowledge knows that God is one, and transcendental."
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Srila Prabhupada talking to Hayagriva das (excerpt from the book "The Hare Krishna Explosion" by Hayagriva dasa)
Photo courtesy of The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International, Inc.
www.krishna.com. Used with permission.”
