Lord takes vengeance for Bhaktin Katie Mueller
takes (3)
Nondevotee; hastled endlessly by corrupt demons, eventually wants to escape material existence, takes to devotional service imitation
Neophyte; Wants to find liberation, therefore starts to build an internal dream world of "service", composed of pretty pictures of Sri Krsna and endless repeated ritual. Thinking themselves now advanced compared to the "karmis", they criticize real and advanced devotees, saying, "oh, they are involved with politics and everything (I am rightly running away from like a scared rabbit), those prabhus are in maya!"
Advanced devotee; Realizing that they are eternal servants of Radha Krsna, now, no matter where they are, they are actually doing something REAL in THIS LIFE HERE AND NOW, as best they can, to fix things, as desired by Sri Gurudeva, including fielding insults from neophytes who say the actual devotees are in maya for fighting to the very death to fix things. An advanced devotee is Krsna conscious, and at the same time is
Hare Krishna!
Many arguments are made in this respect, that as long as we don't cut the animal we do not incur sin.
In the Mahabharata, there is a verse which states that one who sells the animal, one who buys the animal, one cuts the animal,one who cooks the animal, one who serves the animal and one who eats the animal, all are bound equally by the chain of Karma.
But leaving the spiritual aspect of it, anatomically, the human body is not structured to eat animal flesh. Studies have shown the length of the intestine of a tiger is 4 times the length of it's torso so when it eats flesh the toxins in the flesh are not kept for long in the intestine and are expelled at the earliest. Also the concentration of acid secreted in the stomach is so strong that it burns the bacteria in the flesh. While in the cow, the length of the intestine is 12 times it's torso and so the food takes longer time to be expelled from the body. We have seen that the incidence of the Mad Cow disease (bovine spongi
