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to these people who are making clothes, allowing people to commit as many sins as they want?
But different societies have different virtues. In the middle ages, English ladies in Britain used to cover their dogs with clothes, because a naked dog is obscene. And if the dog comes across a girlfriend then it will become even more difficult; then it will be absolute pornography, live! So they used to take their dogs for a morning walk, chains in their hands, and the dogs having strange clothes. And the poor dogs must have been thinking, "What nonsense this is, no other dog...." You will be surprised that very high class ladies used to put cloth around the legs of chairs, because they are called legs, and legs should not be left naked. Any stupid idea....
Unless you know your own sources of life, you are bound to follow the virtues of the crowd in which you have accidentally found yourself.
In my house I had not tasted a tomato up to the age of eighteen, because the tomato was not allowed in the house -- it looks like meat. I tried to convince my grandmother that a poor tomato is not meat. She said, "I know it is not meat but it looks like meat, and I don't want to have anything that looks like meat in the house. We are vegetarians."
I said, "This too is vegetable." But while she was alive, tomatoes were not allowed.
I had never eaten in the night, up to the age of eighteen, because to eat in the night, in the crowd I had found myself, was a sin.
I told them, "It may have been wrong three thousand, four thousand years ago, when people had to eat in darkness, but now... inside the house, in the night, there is more light than in the day.
But they would say, "Don't talk against the scriptures. Even to listen to you is a sin. The people who wrote those scriptures were all-knowing, omniscient."
I was not a respected person in the house. Whenever a guest would be coming, they would tell me, "You just move out. You can go anywhere."
I said, "What is the problem?"
They said, "You are an embarrassment to us. You may do something which should not be done, you may say something which should not not be said."
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