Circumstances under which the government can arrange for

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True, the Vedic kings went hunting but the animals they killed still

came to torture them in their subtle bodies as they went on their way to

Yamaraj. The animals have their rights too in the end. Read about King

Puranjana in SB 4 pt 4. These kings had to undergo great penances at the

end of their lives for all the sins they had to commit for being a king .

We are not able to practice these penances and in this age the process is

Harinama sankirtan and Lord Chaitanya and the 6 Goswamis didnt teach us

to hunt animals but that a devotee is unwilling to kill even an ant.

 

I am not at all a pacifist and butchers and meat manufacturers should be

punished with death. and one should fight to defend one's cows and family

from agressors. but again Srila Prabhupada and Lord Chaitanya have taught

us that in this age we must chant the holy name and preach more tolerant

than the tree and humbler than a blade of grass.There is no other way.

One has to be vegetarian to become a devotee and eat prasad.

 

The forests have all but diappeared over here and the bigs cats are

nearly poached to extinction. All forest animals are on the endangered

species list so hunting is no more allowed.

ys Labangalatika dasi

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mark john <gopanandadasa (AT) (DOT) co.uk>

Noma Petroff <npetroff (AT) bowdoin (DOT) edu>; Cow (Protection and related issues)

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Wednesday, August 24, 2005 2:37 AM

Re: Circumstances under which the government can arrange for

eatingof cow flesh

 

 

> I entirely agree with Syamasudar and HKDD on bringing this to light. It is

> often seen that devotees are vegetarian before Krsnatarian, or pacifists

before

> the need to kill for the better of the whole. In Krsna´s life he was seen

to be

> with the Pandavas who went hunting, killing hundreds of animals, and this

is to

> be praised.

> Why? One may ask.

>

> I have come to conclude that in a fructive ecology, sparse woodlands mixed

with

> grain fields near towns, cities and large villages become dense woodlands

the

> further from civilisation. Further still such dense woodlands turn into

high

> forest, wild in all its abundance. The cow and domesticated grazers are

the

> buffers maintained between the wild forest and the dense and sparse

woodlands,

> which maintains the agroecology of human-instigated plagioclimax ecology,

that

> of silvopastoral grasslands. The wild forest in its natural abundance will

> produce excess, just as the human agroecology will. So those on the

outskirts

> of the civilization would plead to the ruling classes to help them rid the

> excess from the high forest that was endagering their lifestock and their

very

> lives. Thus periodically the ruling class would mount to hunt game,

reffering

> to the game of war; thus killing two birds with one stone - ridding the

wild

> forest of a dangerous excess and training for war.

>

> Also in the bible, it is seen that God gives to Noah the right to eat

animals

> after the devastation of the flood. Later God states that he is sick of

their

> burnt offerings for now there was no need to offer meat, but still the

Jews

> carried on this practice even unto today.

>

> Gopananda dasa

>

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