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The worship of devas and pitrs (ancestors) with meat is also adharma (unrighteousness).
Explanation from Yogashastra, Trutiya Prakash, Shloka 30-31: A cruel person has no dharma (righteousness). How can a meat-eater have compassion? Because a person who is greedy for meat does not even know dharma. And if he knows, he does not preach that kind of dharma.
The root of dharma is daya (compassion). Therefore, dharma cannot exist without daya. The jiva (living being) who eats meat commits himsa (violence), hence does not have daya. Therefore, the defect of adharmatva (unrighteousness) applies to him. The question arises - how can a conscious person tolerate the absence of dharma in his atma (soul)? In response, it is said that the meat-loving person has no awareness of daya or dharma. Even if he has knowledge of this, he cannot give up meat. He thinks that everyone is like him, a meat-eater, and like an ajinaka (one who spreads his own habit to others), he cannot preach meat-renunciation to others.
It is heard that a traveler named Ajinaka was going somewhere when suddenly a serpent bit him. He thought that it should also bite others like him, so he did not tell any other traveler about the serpent on the path. As a result, the other unaware travelers were also bitten by the same serpent. Similarly, a meat-eater not only goes to hell himself due to the sin of meat-eating, but also takes others to hell. "The wicked one destroys himself and also destroys others." From this perspective, he does not stop others from meat-eating by preaching.
Now, the foolishness of meat-eaters is described. Some people, out of great delusion, eat meat themselves, and not only that, they also offer or dedicate meat to devas, pitrs, and guests, because their authoritative scriptures (Manusmriti, Chapter 5, Verse 32) have declared it as dharma. They cite this as evidence.
Having purchased meat themselves, or having produced it by killing a living being, or having received it as a gift from others, and then worshiping devas and pitrs with that meat, and later consuming that meat, the person is not tainted by the sin of meat-eating.
This statement is full of ignorance! We have already refuted and explained that eating meat produced by the slaughter of animals is improper. Then, how can offering it to the deities be even more improper? Because the deities have attained a pure, non-material, vaikriya (transformed) body due to their past merits, they are not flesh-eaters. So, how can they consume meat? What is the use of offering meat to those who do not eat it? This is mere ignorance. The ancestors (pitrs) and others attain their respective destinations according to their own merits or demerits, and they cannot be uplifted by the merits of their descendants. Just as watering a mango tree cannot make the coconut tree bear fruit. Offering meat, which is the cause of taking the honored guests or ancestors to hell, is a great adharma (unrighteousness) for both them and oneself. Such a tendency is filled with great delusion.
Someone may argue that since the scriptures (shrutis or smritis) have prescribed this (meat-eating), one should not doubt it or refute it. This argument is also invalid.