What is non-violence?

Non-violence means not interrupting the evolution of any human, animal or vegetable being. Let us not believe that since the spiritual soul never perishes, and survives the death of its body, there is no harm in slaughtering animals for the satisfaction of the senses. Although heavily supplied with cereals, fruit and milk, today's man indulges in the consumption of animal flesh. Let us know that there is no need to slaughter animals. And no one is an exception to the truth of this rule. Man wishing to progress on the path of spiritual realization must at no price, when food abounds, do violence to animals.

True non-violence consists in not curbing the spiritual progression of a being, whatever it may be, human, animal or vegetable. But souls incarnated in animal bodies, transmigrating from one species to another, follow a certain evolution, and progress also. A slaughtered animal sees its progress curbed. Indeed, he must, before rising to the higher animal species, return to the species he has prematurely left to complete his due of days or years. We must not slow the evolution of animals for the sole satisfaction of his palate. That is true non-violence. Doing no harm to anyone, human, animal or plant, is the order of God.

This is what happens to those who kill animals.

People do not know that for killing innocent animals, they themselves will have to undergo severe reactions from material nature. All countries where animals are killed unnecessarily will have to suffer because of wars and epidemics imposed by the material nature and consequences of their criminal acts. By comparing one's own sufferings with those of others, one must be kind to all living beings. One can not avoid the sufferings inflicted by fate; therefore, when one comes to suffer, one must be completely absorbed in the singing of the holy names of God, Hare Krishna. It is possible to avoid the suffering of the body and the mind by resorting to the practice of the bond that unites us to God.

Those who kill and eat the flesh of animals will go to Maharaurava, a hell designed for those who kill animals, that is, ranchers who drive their animals to slaughter, slaughterhouse workers, butchers, fishmongers, and carnivorous humans. .