Logos 292
Punishment for a crime is justified, for it brings about justice and restores rights. Therefore, whoever kills an animal must expect the same fate. Such is justice. According to divine law, justice wants the murderer to be condemned to death. It would be unfair to spare him since by escaping death, he also escapes justice: he will therefore have to suffer terribly in his next life. In order to spare him such torments, the murderer must be put to death in his present life.
The justice which condemns him to the death penalty does him justice by taking life for life. However, according to spiritual philosophy, the person who kills an animal must expect the same fate. No sane person would take such a risk.
Logos 293
To be aware of God is to know him as he really is, to be imbued with honesty, morality and purity.
We become truly better by realizing God and by having renewed the bond which unites us to Him. But to achieve this, morality or purity is required. God being pure, one cannot approach him without purifying oneself. This is why we prohibit the consumption of animal flesh (meat, fish and eggs), gambling, illicit sexual relations and intoxication in all its forms (drugs, stimulants, alcohol, cigarettes, coffee, tea). These immoral activities keep us in a state of perpetual impurity; It is therefore impossible to progress in the consciousness of God without renouncing it.
Some atheist philosophers and religious leaders seek to convince their supporters that animals are only material bodies without souls and devoid of feelings. However, anyone who has ever lived with an animal, be it a dog, a bird, even a mouse, knows that such a theory is a shameless lie, invented to justify the cruelty of innocent animals. Yes, animals do have a soul.
Logos 294
Krishna, God, the Supreme Person, the Sovereign Lord being the Absolute, nothing and no one is separate from Him. Nothing exists but Him, and outside of Him there is nothing.
The Lord said: “There is really nothing that exists outside of Me, that is what you clearly owe understand”.