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- Read on →: yajñārthaṁ paśavaḥ sṛṣṭāḥ svayam eva svayambhuvā
yajñārthaṁ paśavaḥ sṛṣṭāḥ svayam eva svayambhuvā |
yajño’sya bhūtyai sarvasya tasmād yajñe vadho’vadhaḥ ||
oṣadhyaḥ paśavo vṛkṣās tiryañ ca pakṣiṇas tathā |
yajñārthaṁ nidhanaṁ prāptāḥ prāpnuvanty utsṛtīḥ punaḥ ||
(Manu Smṛti: 5.39-40)“Svayambhū [i.e., Brahmā] himself created animals for the sake of sacrifice (yajñā). Sacrifices are for [the good of] all living beings, and thus slaughter for the sake of sacrifice is not [actually] slaughter. Herbs, animals, trees, reptiles, birds and so forth that have been killed for the sake of sacrifice reach thereafter a higher existence.”
- Read on →: yāvanti paśu-romāṇi tāvat kṛtvo ha māraṇam
yāvanti paśu-romāṇi tāvat kṛtvo ha māraṇam |
vṛthā paśughnaḥ prāpnoti pretya janmani janmani ||
(Manu Smṛti: 5.38)“One who frivolously kills an animal is killed birth after birth as many times as there were hairs on the animal’s body.”
- Read on →: kaṇḍanī peṣaṇī cullī udakumbhī ca mārjanī
kaṇḍanī peṣaṇī cullī udakumbhī ca mārjanī |
pañca-sūnā gṛhasthasya tābhiḥ svargaṁ na vindati ||
(Viṣṇu Smṛti: 59.19-20; cited in the Subodhinī and Sārārtha-varṣiṇī-ṭīkās on Śrīmad Bhagavad-gītiā: 3.13)“The mortar, the grinding stone, the hearth, the waterpot, and the broom—the householder does not reach Svarga because of these [i.e., because of the acts of violence committed through the use of these five intruments].”
- Read on →: pañca-sūnā gṛhasthasya cullī peṣaṇy upaskaraḥ
pañca-sūnā gṛhasthasya cullī peṣaṇy upaskaraḥ |
kaṇḍanī ca udakumbhaś ca badhyate yāstu vāhayan ||
(Manu Smṛti: 3.68)“The hearth, the grinding stone, the broom, the mortar, and the waterpot—the householder has five instruments of slaughter by using which he becomes implicated [in sin].”
- Read on →: antaḥ saṁjñā bhavanty ete sukha-duḥkha-samanvitā
antaḥ saṁjñā bhavanty ete sukha-duḥkha-samanvitā |
(Manu Smṛti: 1.49)“They [i.e., plants] possess internal awareness and experience pleasure and pain.”
- Read on →: ahiṁsā-yama-niyamādi bule kṛṣṇa-bhakta-saṅga
ahiṁsā-yama-niyamādi bule kṛṣṇa-bhakta-saṅga |
(Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 2.22.140)“Non-violence, restraints, regulations, and so forth [naturally] accompany a bhakta of Kṛṣṇa.”