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There is a gradation of jiva's or souls. Killing a higher life form
causes more suffering than killing a lower life form. For example
the lives of bacteria lost during breathing or consuming curd is not
the same as the life of a cow. Such a gradation could be
Matter < Cellular life < plants < small animals < animals < cow < man
So this way eating beef is more sinful than eating mutton :-).
No one can live without directly and indirectly contributing to
killing of living things. The thing is each person should try to
lessen the killing and suffering of living things in whatever
practical way he can without glorifying himself indirectly by
critisizing others or by justifying his own mode of living.
To quote the Buddha, who himself on occasion ate meat, "if eating
grass were to provide religious merit, deer would reach heaven before
man." Thus this relationship that Mr. Suresh has established can be
easily countered by saying that the least harm is obviously caused by
matter so it is must attain heaven before man! And yet Vaishnavism
believes man to be the highest form why ? So what if he has
intelligence, obviously you could obtain religious merit by eating
grass!
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