Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
How are we becoming contaminated? : There are three modes of material nature: sattva-guṇa, rajo-guṇa, tamo-guṇa; goodness, passion and ignorance. And we are, according to the association... Just like here we can see, somebody cannot live without smoking. It is practical. But none of our devotees smoke. So it is possible. Because a devotee is associating with the devotees, therefore he is acquiring the quality by association, contamination. This is a fact. If you go to a contaminated, diseased person, you are infected. We should be very careful.
dadati pratigrhnati
guhyam akhyati pá¹›cchati
bhunkte bhojayate caiva
sad-vidham priti-laksanam
Intimate relation with somebody, so there is bhunkte bhojayate. When you become intimate with certain friend, he gives to eat you, something you eat, and you also give him something to eat, he eats. But if there are different quality, then by eating, you contaminate, you are contaminated by his infection, and he is contaminated by infection. That is practical, medical science. If you eat the remnants of foodstuff of a tuberculosis patient, then you are attacked with tuberculosis. Or cholera patient.
Lecture on SB 1.15.34 -- Los Angeles, December 12, 1973: by Srila Prabhupada
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