The ones you kill and eat will become the cause of your narak!

A brief utterance of Pujya Maharaj Ji. To hear the full discourse, watch the video above.

Full Discourse

Just as your body is dear to you, so those creatures' bodies are dear to them, and you cut them up and eat their flesh. What are you? Diets are different. There is life in the radish, there is life in the potato. Pull it up and throw it away and it dries out; the living being is the same way, the same in everything. But a law has been made for each. For you, this is the food. The lion was not made for radish water. He tears animals apart by force with his own strength and valour and eats them, and he incurs no sin, because there is a law for him. There is a law for the hawk too. It swoops down and eats birds.

But you are human. For you there are vegetables and fruits, and all kinds of drinks: milk, ghee, every kind of juice and essence. What strength is there in eggs, in meat, in fish? All this is nothing but a corrupted intellect. It may sound a little harsh to say, but this is exactly what is called a demonic (rakshasi) attitude. That living being wants to be saved. Look at the creature you are killing. It is thrashing about, it wants to escape. You burn it, you cut it. You tie up one leg and burn it in the fire. Do you know what will happen?

A terrible degradation awaits in the narak. Now, there, it is not as if someone says, "Look, do this, or the police will catch you, beat you with sticks, and hang you upside down." That is nonsense. Those who get caught understand it. They pull out nails like this, and so many kinds of suffering. There is no one there to watch, so you have to bear it. It is like being told the punishment of jail here. An ordinary person will think, "Oh, they're saying this only to frighten us. Where does such a thing happen?"

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