From a lecture, I transcribed (wrote down) everything that I heard from the audio .
"Our dear friend who was here was saying that he tried to convince his friend to not eat meat because it is very sinful.
His friend replied "You are eating vegetables, they are like living being. So, eating them isn't sinful activity?"
Facts is that your friend is true, bcoz krsna says in BG 3.13
"ye pacanty ātma-kāranāt- One who cooks and eat for him selves is verily eating only sins."
bhuñjate te tv agham pāpā-
Not even paap, but agam paap.
Those who cook and eat for themselves they are eating grievest sins.
So, then we should stop eating ? NO.
Krsna says 3.13 BG
yajña-śishtāśinah santo
mucyante sarva-kilbishaih
Whatever we eat, if offered first for sacrifice to krishna, then the person is released from all kinds of sins.
So, the point is you eat vegetable food or non-veg both are sinful. Only they are different in the matter of degrees. If you eat non-veg food, it is far more sinful than eating vegetarian food. But, veg food is aolso sinful Please don't under this illusion that your are eating vegetarian food, so you are free from sins.
Only way to become free from sinful reaction is offer the food to krishna and then have it.
So, somebody may say, so I will ofer non-veg food and eat. Intelligent sharp fellow? somebody sharp will come this logic.
So, krishna is even more smart right, he is the smartest of all.
So, krishna has already covered that point also.
Krishna ways in BG 9.26
patram pushpam phalam toyam
yo me bhaktya prayacchati
he said only this much, patra- any leaf you can offer to me.
Pushpa- any flower you can offer to me.
Phalam- any fruit you can offer to me.
Toya- water and milk you can offer to me.
Beyond that you cannot offer anything else. Everything classified.
So, whatever you have, you offer that to krishna and then you eat. That way you will be really sin free.
But, it is better to eat veg food than to eat non-veg food because the amount of sinful reaction is less. Somebody may question how you are saying that?
The answer is " suppose you are driving a car on the road and you kill a pet dog. So, what will happen?
People will gather and say "oh, this poor dog is got killed".
But, suppose in place of dog, you kill the dog-owner, then what will happen
"You will go to Jail."
You may say, that when I killed the dog nobody did anything, they just ask "Oh why did you kill poor dog" so, now this dog-owner is killed why it is different and "why I am put into jail?".
So, when I kill the dog why did you not put me in jail bcoz there is a degree of sin involved. So, better is at least eat veg food if at all not able to eat krishna prasadam.
that way you saved from higher degree of sins.
"Our dear friend who was here was saying that he tried to convince his friend to not eat meat because it is very sinful.
His friend replied "You are eating vegetables, they are like living being. So, eating them isn't sinful activity?"
Facts is that your friend is true, bcoz krsna says in BG 3.13
"ye pacanty ātma-kāranāt- One who cooks and eat for him selves is verily eating only sins."
bhuñjate te tv agham pāpā-
Not even paap, but agam paap.
Those who cook and eat for themselves they are eating grievest sins.
So, then we should stop eating ? NO.
Krsna says 3.13 BG
yajña-śishtāśinah santo
mucyante sarva-kilbishaih
Whatever we eat, if offered first for sacrifice to krishna, then the person is released from all kinds of sins.
So, the point is you eat vegetable food or non-veg both are sinful. Only they are different in the matter of degrees. If you eat non-veg food, it is far more sinful than eating vegetarian food. But, veg food is aolso sinful Please don't under this illusion that your are eating vegetarian food, so you are free from sins.
Only way to become free from sinful reaction is offer the food to krishna and then have it.
So, somebody may say, so I will ofer non-veg food and eat. Intelligent sharp fellow? somebody sharp will come this logic.
So, krishna is even more smart right, he is the smartest of all.
So, krishna has already covered that point also.
Krishna ways in BG 9.26
patram pushpam phalam toyam
yo me bhaktya prayacchati
he said only this much, patra- any leaf you can offer to me.
Pushpa- any flower you can offer to me.
Phalam- any fruit you can offer to me.
Toya- water and milk you can offer to me.
Beyond that you cannot offer anything else. Everything classified.
So, whatever you have, you offer that to krishna and then you eat. That way you will be really sin free.
But, it is better to eat veg food than to eat non-veg food because the amount of sinful reaction is less. Somebody may question how you are saying that?
The answer is " suppose you are driving a car on the road and you kill a pet dog. So, what will happen?
People will gather and say "oh, this poor dog is got killed".
But, suppose in place of dog, you kill the dog-owner, then what will happen
"You will go to Jail."
You may say, that when I killed the dog nobody did anything, they just ask "Oh why did you kill poor dog" so, now this dog-owner is killed why it is different and "why I am put into jail?".
So, when I kill the dog why did you not put me in jail bcoz there is a degree of sin involved. So, better is at least eat veg food if at all not able to eat krishna prasadam.
that way you saved from higher degree of sins.
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