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Attack by Caṇḍavega on the City of Purañjana
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different means of generating energy to drive locomotives, cars, airplanes and so on. Now they are exhausting the petroleum supply. These activities are described in the  Bhagavad-gītā .
vyavasāyātmikā buddhir ekeha kuru-nandana bahu-śākhā hy anantāś ca buddhayo 'vyavasāyinām
“Those who are on this path are resolute in purpose, and their aim is one. O beloved child of the Kurus, the intelligence of those who are irresolute is many-branched.” (Bg. 2.41)
Actually those who are in knowledge of everything are determined to execute Kṛṣṇa consciousness, but those who are rascals ( mūḍhāḥ ), sinners ( duṣkṛtinaḥ ) and the lowest of mankind ( narādhamāḥ ), who are bereft of all intelligence ( māyayāpahṛta-jñānāḥ ) and who take shelter of the demoniac way of life ( āsuraṁ bhāvam āśritāḥ ), are disinterested in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. As such they become implicated and take on so many activities. Most of these activities center around the killing of animals. Modern civilization is centered around animal killing.  Karmīs  are advertising that without eating meat, their vitamin value or vitality will be reduced; so to keep oneself fit to work hard, one must eat meat, and to digest meat, one must drink liquor, and to keep the balance of drinking wine and eating meat, one must have sufficient sexual intercourse to keep fit to work very hard like an ass.
There are two ways of animal killing. One way is in the name of religious sacrifices. All the religions of the world—except the Buddhists—have a program for killing animals in places of worship. According to Vedic civilization, the animal-eaters are recommended to sacrifice a goat in the temple of goddess Kālī under certain restrictive rules and regulations and eat the flesh. Similarly, they are recommended to drink wine by worshiping the goddess Caṇḍikā. The purpose is restriction. People have given up all this restriction. Now they are regularly opening wine distilleries and slaughterhouses and indulging in drinking alcohol and eating flesh. A Vaiṣṇava  ācārya  like Nārada Muni knows very well that persons engaged in such animal killing in the name of religion are certainly becoming involved in the cycle of birth and death, forgetting the real aim of life: to go home, back to Godhead.
Thus the great sage Nārada, while instructing  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  to Vyāsa Muni, condemned the  karma-kāṇḍa  (fruitive) activities mentioned in the  Vedas . Nārada told Vyāsa: