Can warriors eat meat

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My Dear Spiritual Daughter,

 

Please accept my blessings. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Thankyou for your question cited below with my answers.

 

> Dear Gurudeva,

> Please accept my respectful obeisances!. All glories to Your Divine

> Grace and all Glories to Srila Prabhupada!. HARE KRSNA!

> i just wanted to know whether its proper for the Ksetras to eat the

> flesh of the animals which they hunt or the soldiers they kill in battle

> field. When Bhima drank the blood of Dusasan in the battle field of

> Kuruksetra, did he commit a sinful activity?.

 

Srila Prabhupada mentioned that Ksatriyas could eat the meat of the deer

they killed on the hunt, but not all Ksatriyas did so. It was not normal to

eat the meat or drink the blood of the soldiers killed on the battle field.

Ksatriyas were not cannibals or raksasas to do so. The Man-eaters or

Rakshasas did this and not the human being Ksatriyas. It was not that Bhima

did this with the other 99 sons of Dhrtarastra Maharaja. It is only

mentioned that he did so with Dusasana, to my knowledge. That was to fulfil

a vow he made after Dusasana insulted and tried to publicly strip naked his

chaste and devotee wife Draupadi Maharani. It was not a normal practice.

Bhima was extremely angry at Dusasana for his offenses.

 

> Is it true that Lord Rama

> Candra ate meat when He was in the forest and when He was fighiting with

> Ravana?. I beg you to kindly enlighten me in this regard.

 

We have not seen it mentioned that Rama ever eat meat at any time.

 

> Thank you very much GuruMaharaj. HARE KRSNA!

> Your servant,

> Hemagopi Devi Dasi

 

I hope that this finds you in good health.

 

Your ever well wisher,

 

Jayapataka Swami