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I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.

- Thoreau

I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.

- Gandhi

Each year about 134 million mammals and 3 billion birds are killed for food in America. But few people make any conscious connection between this slaughter and the meat products that appear

If one offers Me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, fruit, or water, I will accept it.

- Bhagavad-gita (9.26)

Beyond concerns of health, psychology, economics, ethics, and even karma, vegetarianism has a higher, spiritual dimension that can help us develop our natural appreciation and love for God.

Walking through a supermarket, people may forget a very basic fact of nature - it's not man but God who makes food. There's something mystical about the way food grows. You put

In human society, if one kills a man he has to be hanged [or punished]. That is the law of the state. Because of ignorance people do not perceive that there is a complete state controlled by the Supreme Lord. Every living creature is the son of the Supreme Lord, and He does not tolerate even and ant's being killed. One has to pay for it.

- Srila Prabhupada

Capital punishment is the state's ultimate act of reprisal, and no sacrifice surpasses offering one's life for the sake

The central question about vegetarian diets used to be whether it was healthy to eliminate meat and other animal foods. Now, however, the main question has become whether it is healthier to be a vegetarian than to be a meat eater. The answer to both questions, based on currently available evidence, seems to be yes.

- Jane E. Brody
New York Times News Service

Today, with increasing evidence of diet's critical effect on good health and longevity, more and more people are inv

In his 1975 bestseller, The Eco-Spasm Report, futurist Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock and The Third Wave, suggested a positive hope for the world's food crisis. He anticipated "the sudden rise of a religious movement in the West that restricts the eating of beef and thereby saves billions of tons of grain and provides a nourishing diet for the world as a whole."

Solving the Hunger Problem

Food expert Francis Moore Lappé, author of the best-selling

(Excerpts from the writings of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada)

The Myth of Scarcity

With the good will of the Supreme Personality of Godhead there can be enough fruits, grains, and other food stuffs produced so that all the people in the world could not finish them, even if they ate ten times their capacity. In this material world there is actually no scarcity of anything but Krishna consciousness. If people become Krishna conscious, by the transcendental will

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ISKCON Agartala

Sri Sri Radha Govind Mandir

Assam-Agartala Rd., Banamalipur, 799 001

Tel. (0381) 22-7053/ Fax: (0381) 22-4780

E-mail: Premadata@rediffmail.com

Agartala (Tripura)

ISKCON Ahmedabad

Sri Sri Radha Govind Mandir

Satellite Rd., Gandhinagar Highway Crossing, 380 054

Tel. (079) 2686-1945, 1645 or -2350

E-mail: jasomatinandan.acbsp@pamho.net

Ahmedabad (Gujarat)

ISKCON Allahabad

Radha Benimadhav Mandir

Hare

Founder-Acarya

The following is a GBC Resolution, passed in 1994.

That the following statement be accepted as ISKCON's statement about the Founder-Acarya:

To fulfill the previous acaryas desire for a united worldwide preaching organization to expand Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's mission, Srila Prabhupada founded the International Society for Krsna Consciousness as a distinct branch of the Brahma Madhva Gaudiya Vaisnava sampradaya. Therefore he is the Founder-Acarya of ISKCON.

(a.) Srila Prabhupada is th

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 4 Text 19
sa esa atmatmavatam adhisvaras
trayimayo dharmamayas tapomayah
gata-vyalikair aja-sankaradibhir
vitarkya-lingo bhagavan prasidatam

sah -- He; esah -- it is; atma -- the Supersoul; atmavatam -- of the self-realized souls; adhisvarah -- the Supreme Lord; trayi-mayah -- personified Vedas; dharma-mayah -- personified religious scripture; tapah-mayah -- personified austerity; gata-vyalikaih -- by those who are above all pretensions; aja -- Brahmaji; sankara-ad

The varanasrama-dharma is prescribed for the civilized human being just to train him to successfully terminate human life. Self-realization is distinguished from the life of the lower animals engaged in eating, sleeping, fearing and mating.