Text 10] Deliverance of the Yamala-arjuna Trees
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one becomes more and more degraded, not knowing that his wealth will be finished with his next birth.
na sādhu manye yata ātmano 'yam asann api kleśada āsa dehaḥ (Bhāg. 5.5.4)
Animal killing is prohibited. Every living being, of course, has to eat something ( jīvo jīvasya jīvanam ). But one should be taught what kind of food one should take. Therefore the  Īśopaniṣad  instructs,  tena tyaktena bhuñjīthāḥ : one should eat whatever is allotted for human beings. Kṛṣṇa says in  Bhagavad-gītā  (9.26):
patraṁ puṣpaṁ phalaṁ toyaṁ yo me bhaktyā prayacchati tad ahaṁ bhakty-upahṛtam aśnāmi prayatātmanaḥ
“If one offers Me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, fruit or water, I will accept it.” A devotee, therefore, does not eat anything that would require slaughterhouses for poor animals. Rather, devotees take  prasāda  of Kṛṣṇa ( tena tyaktena bhuñjīthāḥ ). Kṛṣṇa recommends that one give Him  patraṁ puṣpaṁ phalaṁ toyaṁ —a leaf, a flower, fruit or water. Animal food is never recommended for human beings; instead, a human being is recommended to take  prasāda , remnants of food left by Kṛṣṇa.  Yajña-śiṣṭāśinaḥ santo mucyante sarva-kilbiṣaiḥ  (Bg. 3.13). If one practices eating  prasāda , even if there is some little sinful activity involved, one becomes free from the results of sinful acts.
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देवसंज्ञितमप्यन्ते कुमिविड्भससंज्ञितम् । भूतशुक्र तत्कृते स्वार्थं किं वेद निरयो यतः ॥१०॥
deva-saṁjñitam apy ante kṛmi-viḍ-bhasma-saṁjñitam