Will a person’s offering meat to Krishna considering Him a son be accepted?
A devotee (Name hidden) asked like this:
One of my friend’s mother worships laddu Gopalji in her home. She offers him meat as they are meat eaters. When I told not to offer laddu Gopalji meat she said that Gopalji is like her son and since she gives meat to her own son she also offers the same to Him. She even puts Laddu Gopalji to sleep beside her in her own bed like her son. When I told her Krishna doesn’t accept meat and will be displeased with the offering, she said if Krishna had been displeased with her, they wouldn’t have flourished so much materially. And this is true they are very well off. When my friend was giving his board exams she brought Gopalji to the exam. My friend became the topper from our school. Even now he has passed graduation with excellent marks. His mother thinks that it is Gopalji’s blessings that her son is doing so well and they are also flourishing materially day by day. Whenever someone gives examinations they take Laddu Gopalji with them and they do really well in the exams. She really loves Gopalji’s very much. If Krishna doesn’t accept meat how are they doing so well? Can please these two questions? Please hide my name.
REPLY:
This is very offensive. She is ignorant if she offers meat to Krishna.
There are many classes of gods in India.
Lord Krishna and Lord Shiva does not accept meat offerings. Some village devathas are offered meat by the people. Since their powers are very limited, ie, within that locality, this custom should not be taken as approved one.
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Since the people offer meat and liquor to some village devathas and they too accept it, those village devathas are very aggressive in nature as these devathas too become dominated with Rajo and thamo gunas.
Even some humans who lived a good life is made gods in India and meat and liquor are offered to them too.
These are all ignorant customs followed by ignorant people who are dominated with the mode of ignorance.
Only those who are dominated with thamo and rajo gunas offer meat or liquor to a deity.
The woman mentioned by you is worshiping Krishna. There is no chance that Krishna will accept meat offerings though it is done out of love.
Because, Krishna is preferred to be worshipped by Satva Guna people. Others go to the demigods and Devathas.
(Is it dharma to refuse if my parents compel to take meat? READ HERE!)
What is love exchange? Only if we offer what our loved one prefers to eat, it is love. If you go to your relative’s house and they offer you meat though they know that you are a vegetarian, will you accept that?
Just because you love a person, if you willfully cause damages to her properties, will he accept it?
First of all, offering what we like the most to Krishna is a selfish offering. Only if you offer what Krishna prefers, it is the offering with true love.
Since Krishna likes butter the most, if you offer even a cup of butter, He will happily accept it. No need for many varieties.
Since Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead specially for Satva Guna people, His true devotees will offer only the satva guna foods to Him.
Krishna too is a vegetarian. He Himself says this in Bhagavad Gita. He tells us to offer even a leaf, fruit, water with love that will please Him. Thus He Himself says that He is a vegetarian.
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Krishna is not a vegan, but vegetarian only because He Himself consumed plenty of butter that is a product of cow’s milk. So, He is a vegetarian, not even a vegan.
In no place, the scriptures too have told approving offering meat to Krishna.
So, though that woman offers meat, Krishna will never accept that. He will give another birth to her to become more intelligent to understand the wishes of Krishna properly.
She says that Krishna offered high rank to her son and huge material benefits to her family. This was not offered by Krishna directly. She had helped many people financially in her previous births and hence she has been blessed with wealth in this birth.
Therefore, all her material goodness is because of her past karma. Not by Krishna directly.
(If everything happens as per our karma, why should we plan, work and advise others? READ HERE!)
Krishna never interferes in His own department of justice called Karma Network. Karma will be doing its duty of offering reactions according to the actions of the people in every birth.
Only in rare cases, Krishna directly involves and relaxes the reactions of karma network if a devotee is qualified for that.
And, keeping Krishna’s deity on bed while sleeping is not a good act because bed is a contaminated place to keep Krishna’s deity or even picture.
So, she is wrong and Krishna will not approve that. He will make her intelligent in due course of time. If not possible, she will get more births.
Hope you are clear about offering meat to Krishna.
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