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I have heared that in earlier times Brahmans used to sacrifice an animal for higher elevations and that the animal(sacrificed) would get heavenly planets or a direct birth as a human, so what that kind of elevation was for mixing with brahmjyoti? Because , if I am not wrong, all the sanyasis were devotees in earlier yugas, so why would they try to enter into brahmjyoti
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Hare Krsna Akshit Prabhu
As far as animal sacrifices are concerned nothing is said in the Bhaktivedanta literature about entering the Brahmjyoti through animal sacrifices.
However, this much is discussed:
" The instructions of Bhagavad-gita and the descriptions of Srimad-Bhagavatam are so pleasing that almost anyone suffering from the threefold miseries of material existence will desire to hear the glories of the Lord from these books and thus benefit on the path of liberation.
TWO CLASSES OF MEN, HOWEVER, WILL NEVER BE INTERESTED IN HEARING THE MESSAGE OF BHAGAVAD-GITA AND SRIMAD-BHAGAVATAM- THOSE WHO ARE DETERMINED TO COMMIT SUICIDE AND THOSE DETERMINED TO KILL COWS AND OTHER ANIMALS FOR THE SATISFACTION OF THEIR OWN TONGUES.
The word Pasu-ghnat is important in this connection. Pasu-ghna means "butcher."
Persons fond of performing ritualistic ceremonies for elevation to the higher planetary systems must offer sacrifices (yajnas) by killing animals. Lord Buddhadeva therefore rejected the authority of the Vedas because His mission was to stop animal sacrifices, which are recommended in Vedic ritualistic ceremonies.
nindasi yajna-vidher ahaha sruti-jatam
sa-daya-hrdaya darsita-pasu-ghatam
kesava dhrta-buddha-sarira jaya jagadisa hare
(Gita-govinda)
Even though animal sacrifices are sanctioned in Vedic ceremonies, men who kill animals for such ceremonies are considered butchers. Butchers cannot be interested in Krsna consciousness, for they are already materially allured. Their only interest lies in developing comforts for the temporary body.
bhogaisvarya-prasaktanam
tayapahrta-cetasam
vyavasayatmika buddhih
samadhau na vidhiyate
" In the minds of those who are too attached to sense enjoyment and material opulence, and those who are bewildered by such things, the resolute determination of devotional service to the Supreme Lord does not take place.
Anyone who is not Krsna conscious and who therefore does not engage in the service of the Lord is also pasu-ghna, for he is willingly drinking poison. Such a person cannot be interested in krsna-katha because he still has a desire for material sense gratification. Such persons are killing themselves by willingly keeping themselves in the cycle of birth and death. They cannot be interested in Krsna consciousness. "
Srimad-Bhagavatam 10.1.4 Purport
As far as entering the Brahmjyoti is concerned, it is known as sayujya mukti which the devotees detest. It is attained by the enemies of the Lord after they are killed by the Lord. Although impersonalists also aspire for sayujya mukti with great difficulty, there is every chance of falldown from this kind of liberation.
Hari bol
Hare Krishna,
BG 2.31 Purport :-
"In the battlefield, a king or kṣatriya, while fighting another king envious of him, is eligible for achieving heavenly planets after death, as the brāhmaṇas also attain the heavenly planets by sacrificing animals in the sacrificial fire." Therefore, killing on the battlefield on religious principles and killing animals in the sacrificial fire are not at all considered to be acts of violence, because everyone is benefited by the religious principles involved. The animal sacrificed gets a human life immediately without undergoing the gradual evolutionary process from one form to another, and the kṣatriyas killed on the battlefield also attain the heavenly planets as do the brāhmaṇas who attain them by offering sacrifice.
I can see where you heard from.
But it is given as heavenly plannets not brahmajyoti.
Brahminas, were not devotees of Lord Sri Krishna.. They desire to raise to heaven or heavnly planets like surya loka, brahma loka or tapa loka, jana loka etc. was attainable by performing some animal sacrifices to some demigods.
There is Dharma, artha, kama and moksha
According to one's desire one can attain anything but to attain spiritual planets like Vaikuntha loka and Goloka it is not possible with animal sacrifices.
Hare Krishna