save it from so many sinful activities

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>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.

 

I have heard an explanation that snakes and scorpions are just inherently

such sinful forms of life that jivas in these species will keep taking birth

after birth in the same forms until forcibly released from their bodies. The

killing supposedly relieves them of their past sins and gives them a chance

to progress further along the evolutionary route.

 

As the explanation implies, it is not that they incur new karma, but are

just already so sinful that their innate evil behavior must be forcibly

stopped for their good.

 

Any comments on that?

 

And maybe that's actually why 'modeta sadhur api': a sadhu is happy to see

them killed - besides seeing people saved from their bites and stings, he is

glad that snakes and scorpions are finally released from the dead ends of

their species.

 

Begging to remain

 

your servant,

Madana-mohana das