Logos 9

Do not kill, do not make animals suffer, and do not eat their flesh, because they have a soul. Men are still unaware that divine laws prevail over human laws, and that they suffer the consequences of their actions according to the law of cause and effect and karma.

The original scriptures say: “All the animals that we have killed and caused needless suffering will kill us one after another in our next life and in all of our other lives.”

Those who kill animals, make them suffer needlessly and eat their flesh, as is the practice in slaughterhouses, will be similarly killed in their next life and in many lives to come. There is no forgiveness for such an offense. One who kills thousands of animals by profession so that people can buy and eat their meat must expect to be killed in a similar fashion in his next life and many more. Many unscrupulous individuals even go so far as to violate their own religious principles. The Judeo-Christian Scriptures clearly give the following command: “Thou shalt not kill”. Despite this, making all kinds of excuses, even the leaders of these religions kill animals while posing as holy men. This derision and hypocrisy of humanity are the cause of the calamities which overwhelm it, such as the periodic outbreak of wars, epidemics and various calamities. Killing animals will not only deprive us of human form in our next life, but will force us to put on an animal body and be killed by the same kind of animal that we killed. These are the divine laws. If the mass of people are to be saved from these chain reactions of killings life after life, they must devote themselves now to developing Krishna consciousness, the consciousness of God and to stop all sinful activity.

It is imperative to stop the consumption of animal flesh, the use of intoxicants, illicit sex and games of chance. Ending these sinful acts makes it possible to know God. Let us immediately stop committing these sins and chant the holy Name of God; Haré Krishna, haré Krishna, Krishna Krishna, haré haré / haré Rama, haré Rama, Rama Rama, haré haré, in order to free us from the cycle of successive deaths and rebirths and thus have all our sins erased.

Logos 10

The spiritual world is the real home of the embodied spiritual beings that we are all.