Hare Krishna,
ŚB 6.4.9
अहस्ता हस्तयुक्तानां द्विपदां च चतुष्पद: ॥ ९ ॥
hy apadaḥ pāda-cāriṇām
ahastā hasta-yuktānāṁ
dvi-padāṁ ca catuṣ-padaḥ
By nature’s arrangement, fruits and flowers are considered the food of insects and birds; grass and other legless living entities are meant to be the food of four-legged animals like cows and buffalo; animals that cannot use their front legs as hands are meant to be the food of animals like tigers, which have claws; and four-legged animals like deer and goats, as well as food grains, are meant to be the food of human beings.
Then why it is a sin to eat meat ?
In God's design, one living being is the food of other living beings. Then how can we say He is compassionate ?
Lord Krishna never spoke on the topic of animal killing and meat eating. Nor did Lord Rama.
Moreover they hunted animals in the forest. ( May be Kshatriya Dharma ).
Lord Krishna silently watched, when arjuna hunted down many birds trying to escape during Khandava dahana.
Only devotees like Prabhupada , bhishma and narada showed compassion to animals.
It seems that devotees are more compassionate than Him.
I am wondering, when God himself is indifferent and silent, why meat eating should be a serious topic among devotees ?
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Suppose I am a father of a number of children, will I arrange a food cycle sothat one child eats up others
Hare Krsna
The first lesson of Bhagavad Gita is that, living beings are not the body. They are soul. Body is like a dress for soul. Killing does not mean death of soul, It is like changing body for soul.
Think of it like changing clothes. So Children of God cannot be killed. Sri Krsna is a very loving father.
Hare Krsna
If it is just a dress, why killing these dresses has become a sin ?
Hare Krsna
Why killing these dresses has become a sin ?
Because dress has a purpose for that living being.
Killing animal can be sinful if it does not elevate the animal being killed. That animal body has been given to that jiva occupying that animal body to gradually elevate to higer consciousness. By killing the animal for eating, before the stipulated natural time of death, the jiva in that animal body has to again take birth in same animal body, for the remainder of time. So elevation to higer consciousness is unnecessarily prolonged for that jiva.
If animal sacrifice is 100% performed as per scriptures, by qualified people, then jiva in that animal body which is sacrificed is expected to get higher consciousness. Elevating consciousness is goal of scriptures.
Hare Krsna
Sri Krsna is a very loving father.
Will you Show me a verse where He said " I love all these creatures "
He only said " I neither love nor hate "
Hare Krsna
He only said " I neither love nor hate "
But, but that is not the complete statement. Below is complete shloka
samo ’haṁ sarva-bhūteṣu
na me dveṣyo ’sti na priyaḥ
ye bhajanti tu māṁ bhaktyā
mayi te teṣu cāpy aham
I envy no one, nor am I partial to anyone. I am equal to all. But whoever renders service unto Me in devotion is a friend, is in Me, and I am also a friend to him.(BG 9.29)
He further says, those who are favourably rendering service, to them He is a dear friend. This choice to serve Sri Krsna is available to all living beings. When we do serve Sri Krsna, Sri krsna will reciprocate personally. And we living beings will be reinstated in our relationship with Sri Krsna. That is the highest of benefit for all living beings. That is the goal of all scriptures.
It is very easy to serve Sri Krsna. The best way to serve Sri Krsna is by chanting His transcendetal names -
Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare
By chanting the above all perfection is attainable to all person irrespective of high or low birth, rich or poor, etc.
So Krsna has given all of us a simple and sublime way to reconnect with Him instead of suffering in material world. This in itself is supreme compassion and love of Sri Krsna.
Hare Krsna
Any one who reads this will think that He only loves His slaves. Not everyone.
I beg you not to say again " this is mental speculation".
Hare Krsna
I beg you not to say again " this is mental speculation".
No need to beg. If mentally speculated opninons are not made, I would certainly refrain from saying that. But stating don't say but continuing to write based on sepculations won't help
Any one who reads this will think
People are free to think whatever they want. That is their choice. But those who are in knowledge will think as follows
bahūnāṁ janmanām ante
jñānavān māṁ prapadyate
vāsudevaḥ sarvam iti
sa mahātmā su-durlabhaḥ
After many births and deaths, he who is actually in knowledge surrenders unto Me, knowing Me to be the cause of all causes and all that is. Such a great soul is very rare.(BG 7.19)
Hare Krsna
Will I say some of my cruel children to kill and eat some of my weak children ?
Will I be called a lovable father if I do like this ?
Well. There is no death to the Soul. Krishna knows that . You kill you die and take another birth with another clothing.
SO.. Krishna doesn't see the killing as a killing itself.
Look at the Dead.. Fox.. it body disintegrated and mixed in soil.. and became a plant. Plant is eaten by a deer and deer is eaten by fox.
The plant is becoming fox fox is becoming plant plant is becoming deer
Where is the death here?
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