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Ideal Family Life
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Personality of Godhead, and therefore a Kṛṣṇa conscious person, even though a householder, should not discriminate between children and poor animals. Unfortunately, modern society has devised many means for killing animals in different forms of life. For example, in the agricultural fields there may be many mice, flies and other creatures that disturb production, and sometimes they are killed by pesticides. In this verse, however, such killing is forbidden. Every living entity should be nourished by the food given by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Human society should not consider itself the only enjoyer of all the properties of God; rather, men should understand that all the other animals also have a claim to God's property. In this verse even the snake is mentioned, indicating that a householder should not be envious even of a snake. If everyone is fully satisfied by eating food that is a gift from the Lord, why should there be envy between one living being and another? In modern days people are very much inclined toward communistic ideas of society, but we do not think that there can be any better communistic idea than that which is explained in this verse of  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam . Even in the communistic countries the poor animals are killed without consideration, although they also should have the right to take their allotted food with which to live.
TEXT 10
त्रिवर्गं नातिकृच्छ्रेण भजेत गृहमेध्यपि । यथादेशं यथाकालं यावद्देवोपपादितम् ॥१०॥
tri-vargam nātikṛcchreṇa   bhajeta gṛha-medhy api   yathā-deśam yathā-kālam   yāvad-daivopapāditam
tri-vargam —three principles, namely religiosity, economic development and sense gratification;  na —not;  ati-kṛcchreṇa —by very severe endeavor;  bhajeta —should execute;  gṛha-medhī —a person interested only in family life;  api —although;  yathā-deśam —according to the place;  yathā-kālam —according to the time;  yāvat —as much as;  daiva —by the grace of the Lord;  upapāditam —obtained.