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ing any rules or regulations.” Sometimes animal sacrifices are performed
very gorgeously with grand arrangements for worshiping the goddess
Kali, but such festivals, although performed in the name of yajfa, are
not actually yajra, for yajfia means to satisfy the Supreme Personality of
Godhead. Therefore it is recommended that in this age specifically,
* yajnaih sankirtana-prayair yajanti hi sumedhasah: those who have good
intelligence satisfy the yajna-purusa, Visnu, by chanting the Hare Krsna
mantra. Envious persons, however, are condemned by the Supreme Per-
sonality of Godhead as follows:
ahankdaram balam darparm
kamam krodham ca sarnsritah
mam Gtma-para-dehesu
pradvisanto *bhyasiiyakah
tan aham dvisatah kriiran
samsdresu naradhaman
ksipamy ajasram asubhan
Gsurisv eva yonisu
“Bewildered by false ego, strength, pride, lust and anger, the demon be-
comes 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 kopah. 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-dharman parityajya
mam ekam saranam 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,
