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Why Are They Killing The Animals? #JayapatakaSwamiArchives

Name: Why Are They Killing The Animals? #JayapatakaSwamiArchives
Uploaded: 2023-11-28T23:30:00Z
Channel: Jayapataka Swami
Description: A recorded lecture/transcript from Jayapataka Swami discussing a story about Srivananda Manakhsharya and his sons who performed Vedic animal sacrifices…

28 Nov 2023

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A recorded lecture/transcript from Jayapataka Swami discussing a story about Srivananda Manakhsharya and his sons who performed Vedic animal sacrifices. The speaker frames the practice within Vedic ritual context, links animal killing to ignorance and contrasts it with devotional service as the true purpose of life.

Foreign. For instance, there are two sons of one Srivananda Manakhsharya. He was a smart dog. He was an impersonalist. And he was, you know, offering the red goats in buffaloes at Bolidar. His sons took the goats and held them to Khan, crossed Nagandas, Tagore, Ram, Sandra, Kadiraj. So. And then Narajal and around Chandragauris, they were seeking how these boys, they're so intelligent, why they're killing animals. So they felt bad and they went up to the Narja Naz Takur and asked him to explain what was wrong. Because, after all, this is a Vedic sacrifice. So they explained how this is in the mode of ignorance. And to facilitate certain people, or that mode, some relaxation was doing what the real purpose of life was to engage in devotional service to Ka. So they let all the goats and animals breathe it.