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- 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.”
- Read on →: go-aṅge yata loma, tata sahasra vatsara
go-aṅge yata loma, tata sahasra vatsara |
go-vadhī raurava-madhye pāce nirantara ||
(Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 1.17.166)[Śrīman Mahāprabhu:] “Cow-killers continuously rot in Raurava [i.e., hell] for as many thousands of years as there are hairs on the bodies of the cows [they kill].”
- Read on →: ete na hy adbhutā vyādha tavāhiṁsādayo guṇāḥ
ete na hy adbhutā vyādha tavāhiṁsādayo guṇāḥ |
hari-bhaktau pravṛttā ye na te syuḥ para-tāpinaḥ ||
(Skanda Purāṇa; cited in Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu: 1.2.262; Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 2.22.147, 2.24.273)“O hunter, these qualities of yours of non-violence and so forth are not actually so extraordinary. One engaged in Hari-bhakti shall never become a harmer of others.”