Our Mission is to Deliver the World

Srila Prabhupada has entrusted us, his followers, with the mission of delivering the entire world from its present day condition of ignorance and misinformation. It is a world of blind leading the blind. Because today's world leaders are spiritually blind they are for all practical purposes useless, and the world situation is deteriorating more and more with each passing year. Therefore there must arise now a class of enlightened men and women who can teach by their example and their words what is the proper standard of human life. The Krishna consciousness movement has been established for this purpose, to create a new class of spiritual leaders for this most spiritually impoverished planet.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Our Savior, Srila Prabhupada, Arrives

Answers by Citing the Vedic Version:

Question: Do the Vedas Allow Meat Eating?

Do the Vedic scriptures allow meat eating? I ask this because one of my academic teachers has read the Vedas but still eats meat and has an intense desire for it. This question arises since when a person has Vedic knowledge he is supposed to behave on Vedic principles.

Vrutant Shah

Answer: For Those Who Are Willing to Be Eaten

Srila Prabhupada has taught us as follows in the following excerpt from his book The Path of Perfection that there is a concession given for meat eaters in the Vedic literatures:

In the Vedic literatures there are descriptions of rituals and ceremonies in which a goat may be sacrificed in the presence of the goddess Kali. This is described in the Markandeya Purana, but this Purana is meant for the instruction of those in the mode of ignorance. It is very difficult for one to give up his attachments all at once. If one is addicted to meat-eating and is suddenly told that he must not eat meat, he cannot do so. If one is attached to drinking liquor and is suddenly told that liquor is no good, he cannot accept this advice. Therefore, in the Puranas we find certain instructions that say in essence, "All right, if you want to eat meat, just worship the goddess Kali and sacrifice a goat for her. Only then can you eat meat. You cannot eat meat just by purchasing it from the butcher shop. No, there must be sacrifice or restriction." In order to sacrifice a goat to the goddess Kali, one must make arrangements for a certain date and utilize certain paraphernalia. That type of puja, or worship, is allowed on the night of the dark moon, which means once a month. There are also certain mantras to be chanted when the goat is sacrificed. The goat is told, "Your life is being sacrificed before the goddess Kali; you will therefore be immediately promoted to the human form." Generally, in order to attain the human form, a living entity has to pass through many species of life on the evolutionary scale, but if a goat is sacrificed to the goddess Kali, he is immediately promoted to the human form. The mantra also says, "You have the right to kill this man who is sacrificing you." The word mamsa indicates that in his next birth, the goat will eat the flesh of the man who is presently sacrificing him. This in itself should bring the goat-eater to his senses. He should consider, "Why am I eating this flesh? Why am I doing this? I'll have to repay with my own flesh in another life." The whole idea is to discourage one from eating meat.


Srila Prabhupada has made it very clear how foolish are those persons who take advantage of such Vedic injunctions. Such persons are in the mode of ignorance. You mention that your academic teacher is a meat eater. According to Vedic standards only those who are in the mode of goodness are allowed to be teachers. Therefore if this person wants to eat meat in accordance with Vedic injunctions, he must give up his teaching position and eat goat meat once a month after sacrificing it before the goddess Kali. He then must be prepared to become a goat in his next to be killed and eaten by the very same goat that he killed and ate.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari