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Story 30 Mrgari the hunter
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PRABHUPĀDA: When you take the animal
to the slaughterhouse for killing, he cries.
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So why?
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Because he’s feeling pain.
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He knows that “I’m
going to be killed.”
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So there is soul.
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Soul is there.
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You don’t think that
soul is not there?
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Soul is there.
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Therefore, a Kṛṣṇa conscious
person who has realized God,
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he is samaḥ sarveṣu
bhūteṣu [Bg. 18.54].
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He’s equal to all living entities.
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He’ll feel pain even
for cutting a tree.
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He’ll feel pain [splice] even
he traverse over an ant.
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There is a story that one hunter…
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He was killing in the forest all kinds of
animals and he was killing them half.
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So, they were suffering
too much severe pain.
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So Nārada Muni was
going in that way.
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He saw that these animals have been half
killed, and they are so much suffering.
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Who is doing that?
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So, he searched out the hunter.
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He requested, “Sir you
are killing the animals.
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Why don’t you kill
them all at a time?
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Why you are killing half?
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They are suffering.
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You’ll have to suffer in that way.”
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The hunter did not know
that killing animals is sinful,
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and he has to suffer again.
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So he said, “Sir, I am trained
like this by my father.
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This is my profession.
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I do not know what is sin,
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but this is the first time I am hearing
from you that killing this animals,
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especially in this way,
is very much sinful.”
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So because he saw a saintly
person, he got his sense.
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He re… asked him that “How I
can get rid of this sinful life?”
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So Nārada Muni suggested,
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that “I shall give you the way how you
can become free from this sinful life.”
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So, he made him a disciple and asked
him to chant this Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra
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and sit down on the bank of the
Ganges, and the hunter said,
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“Sir where shall I get my food?”
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Nārada Muni said, “I’ll
send you, don’t bother.
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I’ll send you food.”
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So, the village people,
when they understood
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that the hunter has
become a saintly person,
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so everyone used to
come and see him.
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Somebody was bringing
some rice, somebody wheat,
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somebody some sweets,
some fruits, some flower.
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So, huge quantity of
foodstuff was coming.
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So in this way, he became
a perfect saintly Vaiṣṇava.
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Later on, when Nārada
Muni came to see him,
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he was coming to receive the spiritual
master jumping over the road.
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So when the hunter, now
he became Vaiṣṇava,
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so Nārada Muni and his friend, Parvata
Muni asked “Why you are jumping?”
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He said, “Sir, there are so
many ants, so I am trying…
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I was trying to save their life.”
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The same hunter who was killing animals
one time half-dead and was enjoying,
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is no more interested
to kill even an ant.
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This is called saintly life.
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samaḥ sarveṣu bhūteṣu
[Bg 18.54]
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Samaḥ. Equal to all living entities.
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Not that simply protection should
be given to the human being.
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