View From a Pure Devotee of Krishna

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.....If there is enough milk, enough grains, enough fruit, enough cotton,

enough silk and enough jewels, then why do the people need cinemas, houses

of prostitution, slaughterhouses, etc.? What is the need of an artificial

luxurious life of cinema, cars, radio, flesh and hotels? Has this

civilization produced anything but quarreling individually and nationally?

Has this civilization enhanced the cause of equality and fraternity by

sending thousands of men into a hellish factory and the war fields at the

whims of a particular man?

 

It is said here that the cows used to moisten the pasturing land with milk

because their milk bags were fatty and the animals were joyful. Do they not

require, therefore, proper protection for a joyful life by being fed with a

sufficient quantity of grass in the field? Why should men kill cows for

their selfish purposes? Why should man not be satisfied with grains, fruits

and milk, which, combined together, can produce hundreds and thousands of

palatable dishes. Why are there slaughterhouses all over the world to kill

innocent animals?

Maharaja Pariksit, grandson of Maharaja Yudhisthira, while touring his

vast kingdom, saw a black man attempting to kill a cow. The King at once

arrested the butcher and chastised him sufficiently. Should not a king or

executive head protect the lives of the poor animals who are unable to

defend themselves? Is this humanity? Are not the animals of a country

citizens also? Then why are they allowed to be butchered in organized

slaughterhouses? Are these the signs of equality, fraternity and

nonviolence?

 

Therefore, in contrast with the modern, advanced, civilized form of

government, an autocracy like Maharaja Yudhisthira’s is by far superior to

a so-called democracy in which animals are killed and a man less than an

animal is allowed to cast votes for another less-than-animal man.

 

We are all creatures of material nature. In the Bhagavad-gita it is said

that the Lord Himself is the seed-giving father and material nature is the

mother of all living beings in all shapes. Thus mother material nature has

enough foodstuff both for animals and for men, by the grace of the Father

Almighty, Sri Krishna.

The human being is the elder brother of all other living beings. He is

endowed with intelligence more powerful than animals for realizing the

course of nature and the indications of the Almighty Father. Human

civilizations should depend on the production of material nature without

artificially attempting economic development to turn the world into a chaos

of artificial greed and power only for the purpose of artificial luxuries

and sense gratification. This is but the life of dogs and hogs.

 

 

- SB 1.10.4 purport