Killing!

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(Please note, this is a message from Gopinatha Acarya)

Wild boars.

I think you should be very cautious about exterminating them at present.

Firstly, there are no qualified and practising ksatriyas at the present,

acting under the guidance of brahmanas.

Practically who is qualified and practising as a brahmana?

If you are thinking yourself as a ksatriya, have you arranged land for

vaisyas to protect cows?

Are they protecting bulls by engaging them to produce food grains, and

self-satisfied subsisting on such foodstuff?

Or are they selling their own food out of greediness for money?

Do you have a state, farm or even a village of thriving, trained up, self

independent, self satisfied vaisyas (I don’t

mean the greedy type who take to large scale commerce) from whom you have

collected 25% (only) of their

produce (grains) and thus have a granary reserved for emergency? Or are

you acting independently (as are all

leaders at present) and thus misleading everyone away from the right path

and into a ditch (hell)?

Andha yathandair upaniyamanas.

Or if you fancy yourself as a vaisya, you could ask your king [who provided

you with the land and to whom you are

giving 25% of the produce you subsist on (mainly grains and ghee)], and who

has the above qualifications to hunt

the particular ferocious, attacking boar in question with a sword in hand,

to practise killing deviant, dangerous

humans. Thus the boar can be taken in procession, with the same royal honour

as the king, having been sacrificed

for a higher cause and thus achieve a higher, perhaps human birth in the

next life.

Or is it that the boar is not really attacking anyone or endangering their

life. So you will have to kill him from

behind? Would he just be trying to defend himself if you corner him? Would

you give him a fair chance and fight

with equal weapons, as after all, everyone has the right to kill in

self-defence. Will you be attacking him if he

doesn’t attack you? Will you kill him if he is afraid? Is he really such a

demon rascal, or is he just hungry and

looking for some tucker like everyone else? I suppose you couldn’t put out a

big bowl of milk as you could do for

some man-eating tiger, but you could plow up an area on the outskirts and

grow some sweet potatoes, which would

really make a bhakta out of him. In that case you would feel transcendental

pleasure in taking his remnants (as

sweet potatoes produce so prolifically that one acre should produce ( )

tons and which only takes a day or so to

plow up and plant. Probably, he’ll do you a bit of service digging up a few

extra, but most likely after eating what

he wants, he’ll just waddle off as happy as Larry. If you really develop

some love for him you could be lucky, he

might come back next year, wagging his tail and very tame.

I hope you aren’t just growing cash crops, because then you could be

classified as a hog yourself!

Do you have a temple with a diety where you offer bhoga from the 25%

foodstuffs collected from the self

independent vaisyas who are keeping all the cows and calves happy, and the

bulls engaged and protected, or are

you just exploiting the labour of a whole lot of sudras?

Is it like some “farms” I know where they plow with a tractor and feel

relieved, happy, unaffected or unaware,

when the bulls disappear? Are you the type that drives by on a tractor,

seeing a cow or bull “down” and says “he’s

gone there to die”, as some people I know say and do? Are you the type that

worries when someone is missing,

goes looking for him, gets him back on his feet, and relishes his

association for some more years?

Do you love everyone, including all animals, and as a perfect lover, embrace

cows and calves, as Krsna does?

Or is that sentimental, just for Krsna?

Do you give water, shade, food, shelter or assistance to such helpless,

offenceless, loveable entities, when they have

fallen over and can’t get up on their own, or do you forbid anyone to give

water so they die of thirst, perhaps many

years before they were meant to (as some people I know?)

Do you actually know who these living entities are? Are they just an animal

or are you? Or, are they actually

devotees, not fully perfect, fallen maybe accidentally, taking one last life

in the holy dhama (wherever there is the

Diety and Vrindavan life), and thereafter go back to Golok, (as even Putana

did, what to speak of a cow who’s

given her milk), related to Krsna as His mother?

Who are these cows and bulls hand-picked by Krsna, to take birth on our

farms? Why does He want their milk,

grains from fields, plowed by these bulls in particular? There’s only one

way to find out- serve them! By their

mercy, if you’ve pleased them (and Guru and Krsna), you’ll get some

realization. At least then we can come to the

mode of goodness and see things rightly.

What about the bullocks that didn’t plow and produce (due to our

disobedience)?

According to sastra, quoted by Jiva Goswami (Skanda Purana), within a

two-mile radius of Saligram Sila, every

man, insect or worm which dies, goes to Vaikuntha.

So what about Bhakta Pig? Are you going to consider him part of Vrindavan

and feed him by growing something

extra like sweet potatoes which you could also eat, or are you going to kill

him and risk becoming a living entity,

hanging around the outskirts, trying to get some mercy like Jada Bharata as

a deer?

Or would you rather do the needful (again, like Jada Bharata), and stay up

all night and protect your crops (which

is the varnasrama gentlemanly way to do it). If you are so absolutely

addicted to or dependent on pineapples and

bananas, why not try growing more of a diversity of crops.

There might not be any karma for killing humans who steal your crops or who

set fire to them, but not so for

innocent birds or beasts.

We once had a farm (20,000 acres leasehold, some thousands freehold) and

kangaroos came to eat the crops, so our

“devotees” kept shooting them dead and they just kept coming until the

bloody massacre was just like the

thousands of aboriginals earlier in the century at Lake Victoria nearby.

One just has to build a high enough fence

for the valuables like vegetables, which you’d put around your house anyway,

and into the ground for the boars and

rabbits (if they dare come so close), grow plenty elsewhere and choose the

right crops.

Since no one is seriously growing food for themselves (vaisyas) and living

on that alone, and therefore really

growing “for the dieties”, by giving 25% to the king who is representing

Krsna by organizing land on this

principle, without being after money like a hog, and who is being trained to

protect or kill under the direction of

real brahmanas like Dronacarya, then I doubt whether you’d get away with

killing Bhakta Pig, who could be

satisfied otherwise, as Prabhupada’s uncle did with his cloth shop and bowl

of rice for the mice, and sadhus with

bowls of milk for the tigers.

First let’s get varnasrama rolling, then think about practising killing.

Unnecessarily we cannot kill even a tiger,

neither an ant purposefully, consciously; not even a vegetable, you have to

pay for it. One is implicated.

Where is your love: even for insect?

Rather, it is the aspiration of a vaisnava to take birth as an insect “under

the protection” of a vaisnava. So if you

are running your community or farm under the direction of such vaisnavas, we

will be very eager to live near there

as a boar and get some mercy, whether it be sweet in the form of potatoes,

or going back home being killed under

the super-vision of such vaisnavas. Your servant, Gopinatha Acarya das.

P.S. The killing by the ksatriya of animals under the direction of qualified

brahmanas, for the proper upkeep of the

social order is a type of sacrifice and without that proper direction,

should not be attempted, just as the killing of an

old cow or horse is forbidden in the age of Kali, without qualified

brahmanas to give a new life. Whether you can

guarantee a new, improved life for Bhakta Boar? So proper sacrifice must be

performed. Whether everyone is

chanting their rounds?

Otherwise, he is an animal. So why should you kill for those who are

animal? What benefit will be for you, the

animal, and those who you kill for? Think like Valmiki and go and ask the

members of your

family/community/society, will they take the karma?

And don’t take the excuse from any so called devotee that in varnasrama it’s

not necessary to chant 16 rounds.

Don’t allow them in your community.

Why even sixteen rounds, chant one hundred instead of twenty-five. Whether

we are getting pleasure from more

chanting or otherwise more sex life?

The whole idea of introducing varnasrama for devoteees is to save time for

chanting, not for any so-called personal

comforts. What is the use otherwise? Srama eva hi kevalam. Chanting is

our life. (771024, Vrn)

P.P.S. Forgive me. I am not being personal in any way. I don’t know you and

you don’t know me. All glories to

your service. I am just taking the opportunity to write for my own

purification (no offense intended), and to air

some of Srila Prabhupada’s nectarean words. I know how much devotees are

struggling to execute his desires

against all odds. So please print out the quotes for meditation. Dandavats.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Afterword: These quotes can be supplied upon request.

 

 

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