The great sage Maharaja Pariksit asserted that only animal killers will never be able to taste the sublime message of the Supreme Lord. Therefore, if men want to initiate themselves on the path of returning to God, they must first and foremost put an end to all animal killing, in both forms. It is absurd to believe that the slaughter of animals does not hold back spiritual realization. With the present age of discord, strife, hypocrisy and sin, there have arisen a great number of so-called spiritual masters propagating this dangerous idea and thus encouraging, under the guise of Vedic law, the 'slaughter of animals.

The question has already been raised during a conversation between Lord Chaitanya, the Golden Avatar and Maulana Chand Kadi Shaheb: the animal sacrifices recommended in the Vedas n' have nothing to do with the slaughter of innocent animals in slaughterhouses. But because demoniacs, or false scholars of the Vedas, insisted so strongly on this aspect of animal sacrifices, Buddha could only pretend to deny the authority of the sacred texts. He only acts in order to snatch men from this vice of killing animals, and also to protect the poor animals from the massacre reserved for them by their “elders”, so eager in words of brotherhood, universal peace, justice and equality. So where is the justice when we allow innocent beasts to be killed?

Buddha wanted to put an end to all this butchery, and his cult of non-violence was propagated for this purpose, not only in India, but also far outside the mainland.

From a technical point of view, we will say that the philosophy of Buddha is a form of atheism, because it does not recognize the Supreme Lord and denies the authority of the Vedas, the holy original scriptures. But this is only a cover-up from the Lord. Buddha, as a divine manifestation, identifies with the original author of Vedic knowledge: he therefore cannot reject it. If he pretended to do so, it was because the demonic beings who constantly envy the devotees of the Lord, tried to justify the slaughter of the cow, or of animals in general, from the Vedic texts (as do 'elsewhere still some priests “in fashion”). It is only for this reason that Buddha had to reject outright the authority of the Vedic scriptures. His business is pure tactics, and it must be understood that if it had been otherwise, he would not have been recognized for the Avatar foretold in the scriptures themselves.

The poet Jayadeva, the master scholar, would not have revered him in his sublime hymns either. Buddha resumed teaching the basic principles of the Vedas, but according to the demands of the time (as Acarya Sankara would also later do), precisely in order to restore the authority of the Vedas. Both, the Avatar Buddha and the sage Sankaracarya, again cleared the path of theism, and the learned masters