{"id":17496,"date":"2020-03-17T18:39:24","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T22:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=17496"},"modified":"2020-09-17T18:40:55","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T22:40:55","slug":"srimad-bhagavatam-1-7-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/srimad-bhagavatam-1-7-37\/","title":{"rendered":"Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.7.37"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u015aB 1.7.37<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n
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\u0938\u094d\u0935\u092a\u094d\u0930\u093e\u0923\u093e\u0928\u094d \u092f: \u092a\u0930\u092a\u094d\u0930\u093e\u0923\u0948: \u092a\u094d\u0930\u092a\u0941\u0937\u094d\u0923\u093e\u0924\u094d\u092f\u0918\u0943\u0923: \u0916\u0932: \u0964
\n\u0924\u0926\u094d\u0935\u0927\u0938\u094d\u0924\u0938\u094d\u092f \u0939\u093f \u0936\u094d\u0930\u0947\u092f\u094b \u092f\u0926\u094d\u0926\u094b\u0937\u093e\u0926\u094d\u092f\u093e\u0924\u094d\u092f\u0927: \u092a\u0941\u092e\u093e\u0928\u094d \u0965 \u0969\u096d \u0965<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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sva-pr\u0101\u1e47\u0101n ya\u1e25 para-pr\u0101\u1e47ai\u1e25
\nprapu\u1e63\u1e47\u0101ty agh\u1e5b\u1e47a\u1e25 khala\u1e25
\ntad-vadhas tasya hi \u015breyo
\nyad-do\u1e63\u0101d y\u0101ty adha\u1e25 pum\u0101n<\/i><\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Synonyms<\/h2>\n
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sva<\/em><\/a>–pr\u0101\u1e47\u0101n<\/em><\/a> \u2014 one\u2019s own life; ya\u1e25<\/em><\/a> \u2014 one who; para<\/em><\/a>–pr\u0101\u1e47ai\u1e25<\/em><\/a> \u2014 at the cost of others\u2019 lives; prapu\u1e63\u1e47\u0101ti<\/em><\/a> \u2014 maintains properly; agh\u1e5b\u1e47a\u1e25<\/em><\/a> \u2014 shameless; khala\u1e25<\/em><\/a> \u2014 wretched; tat<\/em><\/a>–vadha\u1e25<\/em><\/a> \u2014 killing of him; tasya<\/em><\/a> \u2014 his; hi<\/em><\/a> \u2014 certainly; \u015breya\u1e25<\/em><\/a> \u2014 well-being; yat<\/em><\/a> \u2014 by which; do\u1e63\u0101t<\/em><\/a> \u2014 by the fault; y\u0101ti<\/em><\/a> \u2014 goes; adha\u1e25<\/em><\/a> \u2014 downwards; pum\u0101n<\/em><\/a> \u2014 a person.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Translation<\/h2>\n
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A cruel and wretched person who maintains his existence at the cost of others\u2019 lives deserves to be killed for his own well-being, otherwise he will go down by his own actions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Purport<\/h2>\n
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A life for a life is just punishment for a person who cruelly and shamelessly lives at the cost of another\u2019s life. Political morality is to punish a person by a death sentence in order to save a cruel person from going to hell. That a murderer is condemned to a death sentence by the state is good for the culprit because in his next life he will not have to suffer for his act of murder. Such a death sentence for the murderer is the lowest possible punishment offered to him, and it is said in the sm\u1e5bti-\u015b\u0101stras<\/i> that men who are punished by the king on the principle of a life for a life are purified of all their sins, so much so that they may be eligible for being promoted to the planets of heaven. According to Manu, the great author of civic codes and religious principles, even the killer of an animal is to be considered a murderer because animal food is never meant for the civilized man, whose prime duty is to prepare himself for going back to Godhead. He says that in the act of killing an animal, there is a regular conspiracy by the party of sinners, and all of them are liable to be punished as murderers exactly like a party of conspirators who kill a human being combinedly. He who gives permission, he who kills the animal, he who sells the slaughtered animal, he who cooks the animal, he who administers distribution of the foodstuff, and at last he who eats such cooked animal food are all murderers, and all of them are liable to be punished by the laws of nature.<\/i> No one can create a living being despite all advancement of material science, and therefore no one has the right to kill a living being by one\u2019s independent whims. For the animal-eaters, the scriptures have sanctioned restricted animal sacrifices only, and such sanctions are there just to restrict the opening of slaughterhouses and not to encourage animal-killing. The procedure under which animal sacrifice is allowed in the scriptures is good both for the animal sacrificed and the animal-eaters. It is good for the animal in the sense that the sacrificed animal is at once promoted to the human form of life after being sacrificed at the altar, and the animal-eater is saved from grosser types of sins (eating meats supplied by organized slaughterhouses which are ghastly places for breeding all kinds of material afflictions to society, country and the people in general). The material world is itself a place always full of anxieties, and by encouraging animal slaughter the whole atmosphere becomes polluted more and more by war, pestilence, famine and many other unwanted calamities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u015aB 1.7.37 \u0938\u094d\u0935\u092a\u094d\u0930\u093e\u0923\u093e\u0928\u094d \u092f: \u092a\u0930\u092a\u094d\u0930\u093e\u0923\u0948: \u092a\u094d\u0930\u092a\u0941\u0937\u094d\u0923\u093e\u0924\u094d\u092f\u0918\u0943\u0923: \u0916\u0932: \u0964 \u0924\u0926\u094d\u0935\u0927\u0938\u094d\u0924\u0938\u094d\u092f \u0939\u093f \u0936\u094d\u0930\u0947\u092f\u094b \u092f\u0926\u094d\u0926\u094b\u0937\u093e\u0926\u094d\u092f\u093e\u0924\u094d\u092f\u0927: \u092a\u0941\u092e\u093e\u0928\u094d \u0965 \u0969\u096d \u0965 sva-pr\u0101\u1e47\u0101n ya\u1e25 para-pr\u0101\u1e47ai\u1e25 prapu\u1e63\u1e47\u0101ty agh\u1e5b\u1e47a\u1e25 khala\u1e25 tad-vadhas tasya hi \u015breyo yad-do\u1e63\u0101d y\u0101ty adha\u1e25 pum\u0101n Synonyms sva–pr\u0101\u1e47\u0101n \u2014 one\u2019s own life; … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-03 21:33:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}