nāyaṁ mārgo hi sādhūnāṁ hṛṣīkeśānuvartinām |
yad ātmānaṁ parāg gṛhya paśuvad bhūta-vaiśasam ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 4.11.10)
“Identifying with the external self [i.e., the body] and killing other living beings is animal-like; it is not the path of the sādhus who follow Hṛṣīkeśa [i.e., the Master of the senses, Bhagavān].”
jīvo jīvasya jīvanam |
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 1.13.47)
“A living being is the life of [another] living being.”
māṁ sa bhakṣayitāmutra yasya māṁsam ihādmy aham |
etan māṁsasya māṁsatvaṁ pravadanti manīṣiṇaḥ ||
(Manu Smṛti: 5.55)
“Me he will eat in the next life whose meat I eat in this life. The wise say this is the basis of meat being [called] ‘māṁsa’ [i.e., ‘mām-sa,’ lit., ‘me’-‘he,’ implying, ‘me he will eat whose meat I eat’].”
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.”
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.”
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].”
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].”
antaḥ saṁjñā bhavanty ete sukha-duḥkha-samanvitā |
(Manu Smṛti: 1.49)
“They [i.e., plants] possess internal awareness and experience pleasure and pain.”
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.”
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].”
