Eating Flesh Justified? || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Why doesn't the law of Karma apply to animals? || Acharya Prashant, IIT-Kharagpur session (2020)

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00:00If you eat animal flesh, you cannot justify it by saying that a lion or a wolf too kills other animals to eat.

00:10A lion or a wolf has no option to not to kill. You have that option.

00:16Man is not necessarily a herbivore. Man is more of an omnivore.

00:21Therefore, that option is there. You could have decided to not to kill but you chose in favor of killing, therefore you will be punished.

00:29A lion is never punished because the lion had no option. A lion has done nothing wrong.

00:34In fact, even if a lion kills a human being, really it has not committed a crime.

00:40That's how lions are. They are supposed to kill to eat.

00:43But if a man needlessly kills an animal, then the man will be punished.

00:49If not by law, then by existence.

00:52A human being is a decision maker. A human being is someone who has a choice.

00:57Choose very very carefully.