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all over the world. Rascal sva@mis and yogis encourage foolish persons to go
on eating flesh and killing animals and at the same time continue their
so-called meditation and mystical practices. All these affairs are ghastly,
and a compassionate person, namely a devotee of the Lord, becomes very
unhappy to see such a sight. The hunting process is also carried on in a
different way, as we have already explained. Hunting women, drinking
different types of liquor, becoming intoxicated, killing animals and enjoying
sex all serve as the basis of modern civilization. Vaisnavas are unhappy to
see such a situation in the world, and therefore they are very busy spreading
this Krsna consciousness movement.

The devotees are pained to see the hunting and killing of animals in the
forest, the wholesale slaughter of animals in the slaughterhouses, and the
exploitation of young girls in brothels that function under different names
as clubs and societies. Being very much compassionate upon the killing of
animals in sacrifice, the great sage Narada began his instructions to King
Pracinabarhisat. In these instructions, Narada Muni explained that devotees
like him are very much afflicted by all the killing that goes on in human
society. Not only are saintly persons afflicted by this killing, but even God
Himself is afflicted and therefore comes down in the incarnation of Lord
Buddha. Jayadeva Gosvami therefore sings: sadaya-hrdaya-darsita-
pasu-ghatam. Simply to stop the killing of animals, Lord Buddha com-
passionately appeared. Some rascals put forward the theory that an animal
has no soul or is something like dead stone. In this way they rationalize
that there is no sin in animal killing. Actually animals are not dead stone,
but the killers of animals are stone-hearted. Consequently no reason or
philosophy appeals to them. They continue keeping slaughterhouses and
killing animals in the forest. The conclusion is that one who does not care
for the instructions of saintly persons like Narada and his disciplic succes-
sion surely falls into the category of nasta-prajia and thus goes to hell.

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TA TT AEM ATA VETATTHY |
Rear Aaa fafa ope IZ oll
Sasan varahan mahisan
gavayan ruru-salyakan
medhyan anyams ca vividhan
vinighnan sramam adhyagat
