Dealing with unwanted insects

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I hope this answeres your question:

 

TRANSLATION

 

One should treat animals such as deer, camels, asses, monkeys, mice,

snakes, birds and flies exactly like one's own son. How little difference

there actually is between children and these innocent animals.

 

PURPORT

 

One who is in Krsna consciousness understands that there is no difference

between the animals and the innocent children in one's home. Even in

ordinary life, it is our practical experience that a household dog or cat

is regarded on the same level as one's children, without any envy. Like

children, the unintelligent animals are also sons of the Supreme

Personality of Godhead, and therefore a Krsna conscious person, even

though a householder, should not discriminate between children and poor

animals. Unfortunately, modern society has devised many means for killing

animals in different forms of life. For example, in the agricultural

fields there may be many mice, flies and other creatures that disturb

production, and sometimes they are killed by pesticides. In this verse,

however, such killing is forbidden. Every living entity should be

nourished by the food given by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Human

society should not consider itself the only enjoyer of all the properties

of God; rather, men should understand that all the other animals also have

a claim to God's property. In this verse even the snake is mentioned,

indicating that a householder should not be envious even of a snake. If

everyone is fully satisfied by eating food that is a gift from the Lord,

why should there be envy between one living being and another? In modern

days people are very much inclined toward communistic ideas of society,

but we do not think that there can be any better communistic idea than

that which is explained in this verse of Srimad-Bhagavatam. Even in the

communistic countries the poor animals are killed without consideration,

although they also should have the right to take their allotted food with

which to live.

 

SB 7.14.10

 

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However in the case of snakes and Scorpions I found this:

 

 

 

So do you think that sadhu, those who are sadhu, they are pleased when a

person is killed? Not ordinary person. He is giving very nice example.

Modeta sadhur api vrscika sarpa-hatya [sB 7.9.14]. Vrscika means scorpion

and sarpa means snake. Naturally, whenever a scorpion is found or a snake

is out, every man is prepared to kill it. Every man. "Oh, here is a snake.

Kill it." When I was in Allahabad, in my bed there was a snake. I do not

know how it came, but I informed to the servants, and they came with all

stick immediately. So when the bed seat was taken away, it was under the,

I mean to say, quilt. So that snake was there, and from the face of the

snake I could understand that she was, it was so afraid. He could

understand that "Now I'm going to be killed by so many people. They have

come." So I told them that "Don't kill this poor fellow. Better take it

and send it to the forest." But they took it away, but I later on

understood they killed it. So once I saw in our Mayapur, Lord Caitanya's

birthplace, so a snake was going, a black snake with... In Bengal there

are many snakes. So my Guru Maharaja was on the upstair and everyone asked

the permission whether this should be killed. He said immediately, "Yes.

He should be killed." So at that time I thought that "How Guru Maharaja

ordered for killing the snake?" Then, after so many years, when I began to

read Bhagavatam and came to this passage, Prahlada Maharaja assertion,

modeta sadhur api vrscika sarpa-hatya, then I thought that "My Guru

Maharaja did right thing." Here also, modeta. Even a sadhu. Then why a

sadhu is pleased when a sarpa, a scorpion, or snake is killed? The reason

is that these two kinds of creatures, they bite innocent persons without

any fault. Without any fault. Or for little fault. The venomous snake.

Immediately. By nature they are so angry and so envious that they feel

pleasure if somebody is bitten and immediately die. That is their nature.

Therefore killing a snake and scorpion means to save it from so many

sinful activities. Because it is nature. It will kill so many persons, so

many animals, because its nature is innocent person, bite innocent person,

kill him. So if there is seen by killing another, it will continue. Better

to kill it to stop its sinful activities. That is the reason here it is

said, modeta sadhur api.

 

y.s.

Hrimati dasi