Animal Sacrifice

Summary Article

• For a summary of Śrīla Prabhupāda's discussion of animal sacrifice, please see the section "Animal sacrifice" in the article "Animal-Killing in Human Society."
• For references to material in Vaniquotes and Vanisource, please see "References and Further Reading" below.

Related articles (Vanipedia)

• Animal-Killing in Human Society
• Buddha: A Vaisnava Perspective

References and Further Reading

Vaniquotes

Categories

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• Animal Sacrifice
• Vedas and Animal Sacrifice
• Buddha and Ahimsa, or Nonviolence
• Goddess Kālī

Pages

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• Animal sacrifice in the name of religion is current practically all over the world in every established religion

• Animal sacrifice under the name of religion is conducted by the influence of tamo guna (the mode of ignorance)

• Bali-dāna, animal sacrifice in front of Goddess Kālī

• Animals sacrifice in the yajna were not killed…

• Vedas and animal sacrifice

• Brāhmanas and animal-killing

• Sometimes the sacrificed animal is promoted immediately to the human form of life

• Overindulgence in animal sacrifice is risky…

• Formerly, the brāhmanas well conversant in the Vedic mantras could show the potency of the mantras, but in this age…

• Kālī-puja

• Goddess Kālī never accepts nonvegetarian because she is the chaste wife of Lord Śiva

• Narada Muni and animal sacrifice

• Māṁsa

• Animal sacrifice is offered before the goddess Kālī. So such kind of worship is mentioned in the tāmasika Purāṇa

• For the animal-eater, the scriptures have sanctioned restricted animal sacrifices only…

• Mother Kālī is witness. Mother is for the goat and for you also...

• In Calcutta there are many butcher shops which keep a deity of the goddess Kālī...

• There are many systems of religion in which animal sacrifices are recommended. Such animal sacrifices are inauspicious both for the performer and for the animal

• If one violates the Vedic instructions while performing yajña…

• They are thinking that "We are not going to the slaughterhouse to kill. They kill; we purchase"

• In the Vedic civilization, meat-eaters are advised to kill an animal for the goddess Kālī or a similar demigod...

• Permission to eat meat after a sacrifice in the presence of the goddess Kālī is not the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead…

• A Vaiṣṇava ācārya like Nārada Muni knows very well that persons engaged in such animal-killing in the name of religion...

Vanisource

Key texts and purports

• SB 1.5.15

• SB 4.25.7 and SB 4.25.8

• SB 4.27.11

• SB 4.28.26

• SB 7.15.7 - SB 7.15.12

• SB 11.5.13