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do that? So why shall you imitate Jesus Christ? You are imitating Jesus Christ by eating meat. Why not imitate Jesus Christ and sacrifice your life for spreading God consciousness? What do you think? Yes, when you preach you can say what you think. They are so-called Christians—but what are they doing for God? Just consider the sun. The sun is absorbing urine. Can you drink urine? If you want to imitate the sun—“Oh, here is the sun absorbing urine. Let me drink urine”—can you? Jesus Christ is powerful; he can do everything. But we cannot imitate; we have to simply abide by his order. That is real Christianity. We cannot imitate a powerful man. That is wrong. In our Vedic literature, there was a poison ocean, so people could not find out what to do with it. Then Lord Śiva said, “All right, I’ll drink it.” So he drank the whole poison ocean and kept it in his throat. Can you drink poison? Not the ocean—just one cup? So how can we imitate Lord Śiva? Lord Śiva never advised that we drink poison. So you have to abide by the advice, not imitate. These LSD and marijuana people say that Lord Śiva used to smoke  gañja . But Lord Śiva drank the whole poisoned ocean. Can you do that? Lord Śiva’s  instructions  should be taken. He says that the best worship is worship of Viṣṇu.  Viṣṇor ārādhanaṁ param . When he was asked by Pārvati what method of worship is best, then he said, “The best worship is worship of Lord Viṣṇu [Kṛṣṇa].” There are many demigods, but he recommended Viṣṇu worship as the best. And better than Viṣṇu worship is worship of a Vaiṣṇava.  Tadiyānām —His servants, or those who are in relation to Him. For instance, we are worshiping this plant,  tulasī . We are not worshiping all plants, but because this  tulasī  has a very intimate connection with Kṛṣṇa, Viṣṇu, we are therefore worshiping her. Similarly, if anything is