Sacrificing animals
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Bhagavad-gita As It Is
BG Chapters 1 - 6
BG 2.31, Purport: Nonviolence in politics may be a diplomacy, but it is never a factor or principle. In the religious law books it is stated:
- āhaveṣu mitho 'nyonyaṁ
- jighāṁsanto mahī-kṣitaḥ
- yuddhamānāḥ paraṁ śaktyā
- svargaṁ yānty aparāṅ-mukhāḥ
- yajñeṣu paśavo brahman
- hanyante satataṁ dvijaiḥ
- saṁskṛtāḥ kila mantraiś ca
- te 'pi svargam avāpnuvan
"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.
| Page Title: | Sacrificing animals |
| Compiler: | Laksmipriya, Alakananda |
| Created: | 20 of Dec, 2008 |
| Totals by Section: | BG=1, SB=9, CC=1, OB=0, Lec=4, Con=2, Let=0 |
| No. of Quotes: | 17 |