Hare krishna ...eating meat is the reason to have sin . if the mother eats meat and milks her baby . is the baby gets any sinful reaction? as the content of the milk produced by the mother is sinful as the raw material is meat . does the baby gets any sin ?
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Its well known story from Mahabharata of how Sri Yama took birth as Sri Vidhura .
-Sri Mandavya Rishi (or sometimes caled Manduka Muni )
was a sage, who was wrongly punished by the king. This occurred as the chief of a group of robbers had hidden their stolen goods in a corner of his hermitage when he was in deep meditation The king asumed that Mandavya had stolen the goods.
The king unjustly impaled him along with the robbers. The rishi Mandavya, though impaled and without food was alive for a long time due to his ascetic merit. He summoned other rishis, who came towards him as birds and animals. They asked him, for what sin he was impaled. Mandavya replied, "Who can I blame for this other than myself?".
King came to know about Mandavya's extraordinary powers and realised that he hadmade a mistake, and asked pardon from the sage. Mandavya forgave the king. The king tried to remove the stake from the body of Mandavya. As it was not possible to remove the stake from his body, he cut the outer part of the stake and left some part of the stake inside the body of Mandavya.
Muni Mandavya lived rest of his life with a small piece of stake inside his body and did great penance. He came to be known with the name Ani-Mandavya (Mandavya with a stake within).
And one day Mandavya Muni visited God of Justice, Yama. He enquired with Yama about the sin committed by him for which he was made to suffer impalement on a stake.
Yama replied that once Mandavya has impaled a tiny insect on a blade of grass. Just as a small gift to someone increases religious merit manifold, a small sin will also multiply manifold and served to the same person.
Sri Mandavya asks Yama "What age was I when I pierced the insect?". Yama says "You were a child when you did that act".
Mandavya Muni then says "The scriptures will not consider the act of a child as sinful upto the age of 12. Since you acted unjustly and meted out a punishment to me disproporionate to the offence I caused, you shall be born on earth to a slave woman. I am also, from this day, raising the limit of sinless age to 14."
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Anyway, Sri Mandavya muni was also menshioned in Srimad Bhagavatam :
SB 3.5.20 — I know that you are now Vidura due to the cursing of Māṇḍavya Muni and that formerly you were King Yamarāja, the great controller of living entities after their death. You were begotten by the son of Satyavatī, Vyāsadeva, in the kept wife of his brother.
Sri Manduka Muni who was punished because he was violent in the childhood toward insects and after that punish by the Yamaraja, was cursed Sri Yama to become Vidura, born in a shudras family.
Because of that Mundaka Muni also by his powers change Vedic rules of punishing for sins in the childhood.
All sins under 14 years will not be counted to be punished anymore since that moment.
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Its well known story from Mahabharata of how Sri Yama took birth as Sri Vidhura .
-Sri Mandavya Rishi (or sometimes caled Manduka Muni )
was a sage, who was wrongly punished by the king. This occurred as the chief of a group of robbers had hidden their stolen goods in a corner of his hermitage when he was in deep meditation The king asumed that Mandavya had stolen the goods.
The king unjustly impaled him along with the robbers. The rishi Mandavya, though impaled and without food was alive for a long time due to his ascetic merit. He summoned other rishis, who came towards him as birds and animals. They asked him, for what sin he was impaled. Mandavya replied, "Who can I blame for this other than myself?".
King came to know about Mandavya's extraordinary powers and realised that he had made a mistake, and asked pardon from the sage. Mandavya forgave the king. The king tried to remove the stake from the body of Mandavya. As it was not possible to remove the stake from his body, he cut the outer part of the stake and left some part of the stake inside the body of Mandavya.
Muni Mandavya lived rest of his life with a small piece of stake inside his body and did great penance. He came to be known with the name Ani-Mandavya (Mandavya with a stake within).
And one day Mandavya Muni visited God of Justice, Yama. He enquired with Yama about the sin committed by him for which he was made to suffer impalement on a stake.
Yama replied that once Mandavya has impaled a tiny insect on a blade of grass. Just as a small gift to someone increases religious merit manifold, a small sin will also multiply manifold and served to the same person.
Sri Mandavya asks Yama "What age was I when I pierced the insect?". Yama says "You were a child when you did that act".
Mandavya Muni then says "The scriptures will not consider the act of a child as sinful upto the age of 12. Since you acted unjustly and meted out a punishment to me disproporionate to the offence I caused, you shall be born on earth to a slave woman. I am also, from this day, raising the limit of sinless age to 14."
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Anyway, Sri Mandavya muni was also menshioned in Srimad Bhagavatam :
Sri Manduka Muni who was punished because he was violent in the childhood toward insects and after that punish by the Yamaraja, was cursed Sri Yama to become Vidura, born in a shudras family.
Because of that Mundaka Muni also by his powers change Vedic rules of punishing for sins in the childhood.
All sins under 14 years will not be counted to be punished anymore since that moment.
So , baby doesnt commit sin.