Ideas and tips on any subject: Famine, physical and metaphysical explanations

I asked him how to bring, killing of animals for food, under safe violence?

My Shakta practitioner friend told me that we cannot live without eating some life or the other. Those animals we may kill are already killed by Mother Nature by its natural process as birth and death are interlinked. This we say because when a life gets birth its death is decided at that very moment. Problem is not in killing it but it is in killing with passion for pain or pleasure or cruelty involved. Moreover, to think that, "I killed", is also responsible for the complications involved. Lord Krishna in his Upanishad with Arjuna warned him that if he thinks that he is going to kill those soldiers in that war he is mistaken because no human can kill or give birth to any by itself. All killings and creations are prerogatives of Nature. We are only possible instruments in that process. My friend told me an incidence when one man wanted to kill a fowl so that, he may cook it and eat but he could not kill her, the hen ran away from him and survived in the nearby forest. He, my friend, after telling me that story told me that if there is no death to a life, it will not die. That hen was not to die at the hands of that man and so it could escape its hold and ran away. He could not catch it and so the death was avoided for that hen. That means, one dies only when destined to die the way it is destined to die and that is not in the hands of any man or any other thing but Mother Nature. Therefore, to think that I kill is not appropriate. We should say I was instrumental for that kill. This is better way to express the happening. Arjuna was thinking that he is going to kill those soldiers and most others also think the same way that we can kill; by natural law we cannot kill! We are only instruments in the hands of Mother Nature who does the killing or creating as it wills. If the process of killing is involving passions such as pain, pleasure and cruelty then that killing is considered to be one influenced by Satan but if it is devoid of these passions then that killing is of nature; no sin involved in that killing as it is devoid of pain or pleasure and cruelty. To think that I killed means your ego says I killed. This ego is the instrument of Satan. Jainism suggests that man kills; this shows that Jainism does not understand that man cannot kill, he could be at the most an instrument in the hands of Nature. This observation shows that Jainism is not base on true knowledge of universe or it is deliberately creating wrong notions to mislead its followers. Jainism contradicts teachings of Gita and if Gita is standard then Jain teachings are wrong. Both lead to the conclusion that Jainism is an instrument of Satan.

That means, killing is by itself not important in deciding its after effects. The motives behind them are important in deciding the results of that act of killing. In war soldiers kill many enemy soldiers but that is done without any passion for pain or pleasure and so all those killings are free from any sin. That is why all that killing is not considered as violence. Same we can say about Butchers. Many scriptures of many religions claim that soldiers who kill to win their king in the war go to haven after death. Same thing we may say about a butcher who kills many animals during his life but yet is not considered sinner of those deaths only because he never wanted to kill them for any pain or pleasure. Here it is considered, pain to the one killed and pleasure to the one who kills.

Jainism does not understand this fundamental principle that decides what is sin. Painless killing is the only way to attend balance in birth and death sequence. Avoiding killing is not a solution to this. No creature lives eternally, death is must for all creatures; and after death the mortal remains of that creature are consumed away by other living beings nobody can stop it or condemn it since it is the way nature feed all creatures it creates. After giving me this explanation he asked me, if I have understood the subject?

In my next post I shall see what other theologies have to say on this topic. In that I shall show what St. peter has to say to his Christian followers.

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