yāta-yāmaṁ gata-rasaṁ pūti paryuṣitaṁ ca yat |
ucchiṣṭam api cāmedhyaṁ bhojanaṁ tāmasa-priyam ||
(Śrīmad Bhagavad-gītā: 17.10)
“Foods that are stale [lit., past their time], tasteless, foul-smelling, putrid, left over [i.e., partial eaten by another person], and unofferrable foods [e.g., meat] are dear to a tāmasic person.”
yāta-yāmaṁ gata-rasaṁ pūti paryuṣitaṁ ca yat Read on →
tasmād daivopapannena muny-annenāpi dharmavit |
santuṣṭo’har ahaḥ kuryān nitya-naimittikīḥ kriyāḥ ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 7.15.11)
“Therefore, one who knows dharma and is contented should perform one’s regular and incidental duties day by day even with the foods of the sages which are obtained by destiny.”
tasmād daivopapannena muny-annenāpi dharmavit Read on →
na dadyād āmiṣaṁ śrāddhe na cādyād dharma-tattvavit |
muny-annaiḥ syāt parā prītir yathā na paśu-hiṁsayā ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 7.15.7)
“One who knows the truth of dharma shall never offer flesh in a śrāddha nor shall one ever eat it. Satisfaction [of Bhagavān, as well as the devas, forefathers, other living beings, so forth] shall come about with the foods of the sages, and not so through animal slaughter.”
na dadyād āmiṣaṁ śrāddhe na cādyād dharma-tattvavit Read on →
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.”
yāvanti paśu-romāṇi tāvat kṛtvo ha māraṇam Read on →
antaḥ saṁjñā bhavanty ete sukha-duḥkha-samanvitā |
(Manu Smṛti: 1.49)
“They [i.e., plants] possess internal awareness and experience pleasure and pain.”
antaḥ saṁjñā bhavanty ete sukha-duḥkha-samanvitā Read on →
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].”
go-aṅge yata loma, tata sahasra vatsara Read on →
patraṁ puṣpaṁ phalaṁ toyaṁ yo me bhaktyā prayacchati |
tad ahaṁ bhakty-upahṛtam aśnāmi prayatātmanaḥ ||
(Śrīmad Bhagavad-gītā: 9.26)
[Bhagavān Śrī Kṛṣṇa:] “I partake of the offering of bhakti from a clean hearted person who with bhakti offers me a leaf, flower, fruit, or water.”
patraṁ puṣpaṁ phalaṁ toyaṁ yo me bhaktyā prayacchati Read on →
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.”
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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.”
ye tv anevaṁ-vido’santaḥ stabdhāḥ sad-abhimāninaḥ Read on →
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.”
samutpattiṁ ca māṁsasya vadha-bandhau ca dehinām Read on →
