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एकस्यापि हि जीवस्य हिंसने किमघं भवेत् । जन्तुजातमयं तत्को नवनीतं निषेवते ?।।३।।
___Meaning : How can one enjoy using butter, abounding in lots of bacteria, in face of the fact that considerable sin attaches to killing one bacterium
even ?
अनेकजन्तुसन्धात - निघातनसमुद्भवम् ।
जुगुप्सनीयं लालावत् कः स्वादयति माक्षिकम् ॥३६॥ Meaning : Who would use honey which is produced after killing a number of insignificant living organisms and beings, and which also is displeasing like saliva in appearance.
भक्षयन माक्षिक क्षद्र-जन्तुलक्षक्षयोद्धवम् ।
स्तोकजन्तुनिहन्तृभ्यः सौनिकेभ्योऽतिरिच्यते ॥३७॥ Meaning : One, who eats (uses) honey which is produced after killing lacs of minutest living organisms, is more condemned than even chandals (pariahs) who kill less than him.
एकैककुसुमकोडाद्रसमापीय मक्षिकाः। यद्वमन्ति मधुच्छिष्टं तदश्नन्ति न धार्मिकाः ॥३८॥ अप्यौषधकृते जग्धं मधु श्वभ्रनिबन्धनम् ।
भक्षितः प्राणनाशाय कालकटकणोऽपि हि ॥३६॥ Meaning: The bee sucks juice from each and every flower and gives it out. This given out juice is called 'honey'. The religious never make use of it.
Some give up using honey but keep an exception in the form of using it as a medicine. But the wise.
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