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There is no similarity between meat-eating and non-meat eating, butter is a sin.
The third light of Yoga Shastra, verses 32 to 33, refute this by saying - How can one have faith in unauthentic scriptures? In which scriptures it is said that 'touching a cow destroys sin; cutting down trees and worshipping them, killing goats, birds, etc. animals, leads to heaven. Feeding a Brahmin satisfies the ancestors; deceitful gods are also liberated, offerings made in fire are pleasing to the gods. How can a wise man believe in such inconsistent laws or scriptures? It is also said - touching a cow that eats dung destroys sins, an ignorant tree is worthy of worship, killing a goat leads to heaven, feeding a Brahmin satisfies the ancestors, deceitful gods are considered liberated, offerings made in fire reach the gods; etc. From such statements, what kind of play is being made of the essence of the scriptures? Therefore, the law in the so-called scriptures about worshipping gods with meat, etc. is full of ignorance. Let's understand it briefly. What is the benefit of saying it in detail? ||31||
One may doubt that fire does not burn or cook after being consecrated by mantras, and that meat also does not become sinful after being consecrated by mantras. Manu has said that one who has faith in the eternal Vedic law should not eat any kind of animal flesh without being consecrated by mantras, but should eat meat consecrated by mantras. (Manu Smriti 5/23) This is refuted. 203. Even if it is consecrated by mantras, even a little bit of meat is not good. Even a drop of Halahala poison destroys life. ||32|| _ Meaning: Even after being consecrated by mantras, one should not eat even as much meat as a barley grain. Because even a drop of Halahala poison destroys life. ||33|| _ Explanation: Even if meat is purified by mantras, it is not fit to eat even as much as a barley grain. Just as mantras cannot stop the power of fire to burn, similarly meat (even if consecrated by mantras) cannot stop the power of attaining hell, etc. If this (destruction of sin by mantras) happens, then any person can commit all kinds of heinous sins and get rid of them by repeatedly chanting the so-called sin-destroying mantras; he will be fulfilled. If all sins are destroyed by mantras, then it is useless to prohibit sins. Therefore, just as a little bit of alcohol makes one drunk, similarly, even a little bit of meat leads to the bondage of sin. Therefore, it is said - even a few drops of poison destroy life, similarly, even as much meat as a barley grain leads to hell. ||32||
Now, concluding by telling the great sins caused by meat. 204. Immediately after killing a living being, countless unconscious living beings are born in it, and the tradition of their repeated birth continues. The scriptures say - 'Unconscious living beings of the Nigoda type are constantly born in raw or cooked meat, or in the muscles while cooking. Therefore, meat contaminated by so much animal cruelty is the food (food) of the path of hell. Therefore, what wise person can eat meat? ||33|| Explanation: Some useful verses related to this are presented - He who talks about eating meat has abandoned the limits, is ignorant, atheist, a writer of bad scriptures, greedy for meat or stubborn. There is no one more shameless than him who wants to nourish his body with the flesh of others, which is the fuel for the fire of hell. The pig of the house is good, which nourishes its body by eating the dung that humans throw away, but the man who increases his limbs by eating the flesh of others by killing animals is not good. I doubt about those who say that the flesh of all living beings except humans is edible. There is no one more irreligious than the one who does not see any difference between human flesh and animal flesh.
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