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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 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