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].”
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.”
yajña-śiṣṭāśinaḥ santo mucyante sarva-kilbiṣaiḥ |
bhuñjate te tv aghaṁ pāpā ye pacanty ātma-kāraṇāt ||
(Śrīmad Bhagavad-gītā: 3.13)
“A virtuous person who subsists on the remnants of sacrifice (yajña) is liberated from all sins [i.e., the consequences of violence towards other living beings]. But one who prepares food for oneself partakes only of sin.”
ye tv anevaṁ-vido’santaḥ stabdhāḥ sad-abhimāninaḥ |
paśūn druhyanti viśrabdhāḥ pretya khādanti te ca tān ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 11.5.14)
“The ignorant, impious, and stubborn who consider themselves virtuous confidently kill animals, and those animals eat them in their next life.”
samutpattiṁ ca māṁsasya vadha-bandhau ca dehinām |
prasamīkṣya nivarteta sarva-māṁsasya bhakṣaṇāt ||
(Manu Smṛti: 5.49)
“Having fully understood the [disgusting] origin of meat and the [cruel] acts of binding and slaughtering living beings [needed to produce it], one should abstain from eating all types of meat.”
anumantā viśasitā nihantā kraya-vikrayī |
saṁskartā copahartā ca khādakaś ceti ghātakāḥ ||
(Manu Smṛti: 5.51)
“The permitter, the cutter, the killer themself, the buyer, the seller, the cook, the transporter, and the eater—all such persons are considered slaughterers.”
nākṛtvā prāṇināṁ hiṁsāṁ māṁsam utpadyate kvacit |
(Manu Smṛti: 5.48)
“Meat is never produced without harming living beings.”
svamāṁsaṁ paramāṁsena yo vardhayitum icchati |
anabhyarcya pitṝn devāṁs tato’nyo nāsty apuṇyakṛt ||
(Manu Smṛti: 5.52)
“There is no greater sinner than one who seeks to increase his own flesh with the flesh of others and does not worship the forefathers and devas.”
yo’hiṁsakāni bhūtāni hinasty ātma-sukhecchayā |
sa jīvaṁś ca mṛtaś caiva na kvacit sukham edhate ||
(Manu Smṛti: 5.45)
“One who harms innocuous creatures out of a desire for one’s own pleasure never attains happiness in life or after death.”
