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King Citraketu Meets the Lord
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ing any rules or regulations.” Sometimes animal sacrifices are performed very gorgeously with grand arrangements for worshiping the goddess Kālī, but such festivals, although performed in the name of  yajña , are not actually  yajña , for  yajña  means to satisfy the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore it is recommended that in this age specifically,  yajñaiḥ saṅkīrtana-prāyair yajanti hi sumedhasaḥ : those who have good intelligence satisfy the  yajña-puruṣa , Viṣṇu, by chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa  mantra . Envious persons, however, are condemned by the Supreme Personality of Godhead as follows:
ahaṅkāraṁ balaṁ darpaṁ kāmaṁ krodhaṁ ca saṁśritāḥ mām ātma-para-deheṣu pradviṣanto ’bhyasūyakāḥ
tān ahaṁ dviṣataḥ krūrān saṁsāreṣu narādhamān kṣipāmy ajasram aśubhān āsurīṣv eva yoniṣu
“Bewildered by false ego, strength, pride, lust and anger, the demon becomes envious of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is situated in his own body and in the bodies of others, and blasphemes against the real religion. Those who are envious and mischievous, who are the lowest among men, are cast by Me into the ocean of material existence, into various demoniac species of life.” (Bg. 16.18–19) These persons are condemned by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, as indicated by the words  tava kopaḥ . A person who commits murder is envious of himself and also the person he has killed, for the result of committing murder is that he will be arrested and hanged. If one transgresses the laws of a man-made government, he may escape being killed by the state, but one cannot escape the laws of God. A killer of any animal must be killed in his next life by the same animal. This is the law of nature. One must follow the instructions of the Supreme Lord:  sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja . If one follows any other system of religion, he is subject to punishment by the Supreme Personality of Godhead in many different ways. Therefore if one follows a concocted system of religion,