Mosquitos

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> Did Srila Prabhupada say that we could kill mosquitos (because they are

> aggressors) or that we should never kill them because a saintly person

> doesn´t harm anyone?

 

By the arrangement of the Supreme Lord, low-grade living beings like bugs

and mosquitoes suck the blood of human beings and other animals. Such

insignificant creatures are unaware that their bites are painful to the

human being. However, first-class human beings -- brahmanas, ksatriyas and

vaisyas -- are developed in consciousness, and therefore they know how

painful it is to be killed. A human being endowed with knowledge certainly

commits sin if he kills or torments insignificant creatures, who have no

discrimination.

SB 5.26.17

 

A sadhu is kind not only to human beings but to cats, dogs, trees, plants

and insects; he will hesitate even to kill one mosquito.

TLK Vs 21

 

A devotee is friend to everyone. He does not want to kill even an ant or a

mosquito.

Bhagavad-gita 12.13-14 -- Bombay, May 12, 1974

 

A Vaisnava will hesitate to kill even one mosquito.

Srimad-Bhagavatam 3.25.21 -- Bombay, November 21, 1974

 

Even if we kill one mosquito, we are responsible.

Srimad-Bhagavatam 6.1.7 -- Honolulu, June 15, 1975, Sunday Feast Lecture

 

So in the state of the Supreme Lord, you cannot kill even a mosquito or even

a fly.

Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Madhya-lila 20.102 -- Baltimore, July 7, 1976

 

Prabhupada: ...(slapping sound -- for mosquito?) Don't kill.

Evening Darsana (on night of arrival) -- August 16, 1976, Hyderabad

 

Prabhupada: ...You have killed. You have to suffer. They are disturbing;

still, you cannot kill them. This is your position. But people are with Flit

(a bug killer) killing thousands of mosquitoes and flies, becoming

implicated.

Tamala Krsna: We shouldn't kill them. What about if they're biting you,

right in the process of biting you?

Prabhupada: Hm?

Tamala Krsna: Supposing a mosquito is biting you and sucking the blood.

Prabhupada: Yes, when they bite, you can kill, according to laws of nature.

But on the whole, you cannot kill.

Tamala Krsna: You cannot invent means...

Prabhupada: Therefore mosquito curtain.

Tamala Krsna: Prevention.

Prabhupada: Prevention is better than cure. They are meant for that purpose.

God has made. So instead of killing them, you protect your... But if you are

in the service of the Lord, you are not responsible.

Conversation: Animals' Expertise -- April 28, 1977, Bombay