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  • S K NAYAK July 2, 2015 at 8:04am

    HARE KRISHNA... 

    THNKS SHRAVN PRV.. YOUR VALUABLE REPLY

  • Sevak
    Saurabh July 1, 2015 at 9:04am

    Thank you Shravan pr for your reply but may i know the reason of appearance of Lord Buddha, he was incarnation of Lord Krishna

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      Shravn Prabhu > Saurabh July 2, 2015 at 10:08am

      Excerpts from Srimad Bhagavatam 11.5.13

      When unscrupulous persons tried to establish that animal killing and meat-eating are acceptable by misinterpreting the Vedic sacrifices, Lord Buddha personally appeared and rejected their heinous proposition. This is described by Jayadeva Gosvāmī:

      nindasi yajña-vidher ahaha śruti-jātaṁ
       sadaya-hṛdaya darśita-paśu-ghātam
      keśava dhṛta-buddha-śarīra
       jaya jagad-īśa hare

      meaning from Srimad Bhagavatam 6.8.19

      The mission of Lord Buddha was to save people from the abominable activity of animal killing and to save the poor animals from being unnecessarily killed. When pāṣaṇḍīs were cheating by killing animals on the plea of sacrificing them in Vedic yajñas, the Lord said, "If the Vedic injunctions allow animal killing, I do not accept the Vedic principles." Thus he actually saved people who acted according to Vedic principles. One should therefore surrender to Lord Buddha so that he can help one avoid misusing the injunctions of the Vedas.

  • Sevak
    Saurabh June 30, 2015 at 6:32pm

    Do you have the exact verse which says about it

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      Shravn Prabhu > Saurabh June 30, 2015 at 7:35pm

      Yes, just click on the link on the left and it will take you to Vedabase

  • Sevak
    Saurabh June 30, 2015 at 6:25pm

    I have been reading the gita among other things and am trying to understand.Is it not true that parts of the yajurveda and rigveda promote animal sacrifice?

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      Shravn Prabhu > Saurabh June 30, 2015 at 6:30pm

      Yes, in the Yagna. Not for eating, for the purpose of sense gratification.

      Caitanya Mahaprabhu is explaining the same question to Chand Kazi as to why it was allowed and why it is not allowed in Kali Yuga.

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    Shravn Prabhu June 30, 2015 at 4:40pm

    Here is the a discussion between Chand Kazi and Caitanya Mayaprabhu on the topic, where Chand Kazi asks Caitanya Mayaprabhu the same questions. 

    CC Ādi 17.152 — The Lord said, “My dear uncle, I have come to your home just to ask you some questions.”
    CC Ādi 17.153 — The Lord said, “You drink cows’ milk; therefore the cow is your mother. And the bull produces grains for your maintenance; therefore he is your father.
    CC Ādi 17.154 — “Since the bull and cow are your father and mother, how can you kill and eat them? What kind of religious principle is this? On what strength are you so daring that you commit such sinful activities?”
    CC Ādi 17.155 — The Kazi replied, “As You have Your scriptures called the Vedas and Purāṇas, we have our scripture, known as the holy Koran.
    CC Ādi 17.156 — “According to the Koran, there are two ways of advancement — through increasing the propensity to enjoy, and through decreasing the propensity to enjoy. On the path of decreasing attachment [nivṛtti-mārga], the killing of animals is prohibited.
    CC Ādi 17.157 — “On the path of material activities, there is regulation for killing cows. If such killing is done under the guidance of scripture, there is no sin.”
    CC Ādi 17.158 — As a learned scholar, the Kazi challenged Caitanya Mahāprabhu, “In Your Vedic scriptures there is an injunction for killing a cow. On the strength of this injunction, great sages performed sacrifices involving cow-killing.”
    CC Ādi 17.159 — Refuting the Kazi’s statement, the Lord immediately replied, “The Vedas clearly enjoin that cows should not be killed. Therefore every Hindu, whoever he may be, avoids indulging in cow-killing.
    CC Ādi 17.160 — “In the Vedas and Purāṇas there are injunctions declaring that if one can revive a living being, one can kill it for experimental purposes.
    CC Ādi 17.161 — “Therefore the great sages sometimes killed old cows, and by chanting Vedic hymns they brought them back to life for perfection.
    CC Ādi 17.162 — “The killing and rejuvenation of such old and invalid cows was not truly killing but an act of great benefit.
    CC Ādi 17.163 — “Formerly there were powerful brāhmaṇas who could make such experiments using Vedic hymns, but now, because of the Kali-yuga, brāhmaṇas are not so powerful. Therefore the killing of cows and bulls for rejuvenation is forbidden.
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