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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-gita.
vyavasayatmika buddhir
ekeha kuru-nandana
bahu-sakha hy anantaé ca
buddhayo ‘vyavasdyinam
“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 Krsna consciousness, but those who are rascals (miidhah), sinners
(duskyrtinah) and the lowest of mankind (narddhamah ), who are bereft of
all intelligence (mayayapahrta-jnanah) and who take shelter of the
demoniac way of life (dsuram bhavam asritah), are disinterested in Krsna
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. Karmis 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 Kali under certain restrictive rules and regulations
and eat the flesh. Similarly, they are recommended to drink wine by wor-
shiping the goddess Candika. 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
Vaisnava acarya like Narada 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 Narada, while instructing Srimad-Bhagavatam to
Vyasa Muni, condemned the karma-kanda (fruitive) activities mentioned
in the Vedas. Narada told Vyasa:
