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Ahastani sahastanam apadani chatuspadam
Phalguni tatra mahatam jivo jivasya jivanam.
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Ahastani—those who are devoid of hands, Sahastanam—of those who are endowed with hands, Apadani—those who are devoid of legs, Chatuspadanam—of those who have four legs, Phalguni—those who are weak, Tatra—there, Mahatam—of the poweful, Jivo—the living being, Jivanam—subsistance.
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Those who are devoid of hands are subsistence for those who are endowed with hands, those who are devoid of legs are of the four legged. As such the weak is the subsistence of the strong and the general rule is that one living being is the food for another living being.
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A systematic law of subsistence in the field of struggle for existence is there by the Supreme will and there is no escape by anyone by any amount of planning commission. The living being who have come to the material world against the will of the Supreme Being are under the control of a Supreme Power called the Maya Shakti deputed agent of the Lord and this Daivi Maya is meant for pinching the conditioned souls by three fold miseries one of which is explained here in this verse that the weak is the subsistence of the strong. But nobody is strong enough to protect himself from the onslaught of the stronger one and by the will of the Lord there are systematic categories of the weak and the strongest than the stronger. There is nothing to be lamented if a tiger eats another weaker animal including the man because that is the law of the Supreme Lord. But for the human being, although the law is there that the human being must subsist on another living being, there is the law of good sense also for the human being which is meant to obey the law of the scriptures also which is impossible for other animals. The human being is meant for self realisation and for that purpose he is not to eat anything which is not first offered to the Lord. The Lord accepts from his devotee all kinds of food preparations made of vegetables namely fruits and leaves and as such grains fruits leaves and milk in different varieties of foodstuff can be offered to the Lord and after acceptance of the food stuff by the Lord a human being devotee of the Lord can partake of the Prasadam by which his all sufferings of struggle for existence will be gradually mitigated. This is confirmed in the Bhagwat Geeta (B.G. 9/22). Even those who are accustomed to eat animals they can offer the foodstuff not to the Lord directly but to the agent particular of the Lord under certain conditions of religious rites. And injunctions of the scriptures are not meant for encouraging the eaters in animal foodstuff but to restrict them by regulated principles.
#$p#The living being is the source of subsistence for other sronger living beings. Nobody should be very anxious for his subsistence at any circumstances because there are living beings everywhere and no living being starves for want of food at any place. Maharaj Yudhisthir is advised by Narada not to worry for his uncles that they would suffer for want of food but on the contrary they could live on vegetables available there also in the jungle as Prasadam of the Supreme Lord and thus realise the path of salvation.
#$p#Exploitation of the weaker living being by the strong is the natural law for existence; there is always an attempt to devour the weak by the stronger neighbour in different kingdoms of the living being. There is no possiblity of checking this tendency by any artificial means under material condition but it can only be checked by awakening the spiritual sense of the human kind by practice of the spiritual regulations. The spiritual regulative principles however does not allow a man to slaughter the weaker animals on one side and teach others for peaceful co-existence. If you do not allow the animals for peaceful co-existence under good sense of humanity how you can expect peaceful co-existence in the human society. The blind leaders of human being must therefore understand the Supreme Being and then try to implement the Kingdom of God. Kingdom of God or Ramrajya is impossible without the awakening of God consciousness in the mass mind of the people of the world.
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#dl##dd#ahastāni sahastānām#/dd#
#dd#apadāni catuṣ-padām#/dd#
#dd#phalgūni tatra mahatāṁ#/dd#
#dd#jīvo jīvasya jīvanam#/dd##/dl#
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#i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=ahastāni&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#ahastāni#/i# — those who are devoid of hands; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=sa&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#sa-#a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=hastānām&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#hastānām#/i# — of those who are endowed with hands; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=apadāni&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#apadāni#/i# — those who are devoid of legs; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=catuḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#catuḥ-#a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=padām&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#padām#/i# — of those who have four legs; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=phalgūni&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#phalgūni#/i# — those who are weak; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=tatra&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#tatra#/i# — there; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=mahatām&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#mahatām#/i# — of the powerful; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=jīvaḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#jīvaḥ#/i# — the living being; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=jīvasya&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#jīvasya#/i# — of the living being; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=jīvanam&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#jīvanam#/i# — subsistence.
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Those who are devoid of hands are prey for those who have hands; those devoid of legs are prey for the four-legged. The weak are the subsistence of the strong, and the general rule holds that one living being is food for another.
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A systematic law of subsistence in the struggle for existence is there by the supreme will, and there is no escape for anyone by any amount of planning. The living beings who have come to the material world against the will of the Supreme Being are under the control of a supreme power called #i#māyā-śakti#/i#, the deputed agent of the Lord, and this #i#daivī māyā#/i# is meant to pinch the conditioned souls by threefold miseries, one of which is explained here in this verse: #i#the weak are the subsistence of the strong#/i#. No one is strong enough to protect himself from the onslaught of a stronger, and by the will of the Lord there are systematic categories of the weak, the stronger and the strongest. There is nothing to be lamented if a tiger eats a weaker animal, including a man, because that is the law of the Supreme Lord. But although the law states that a human being must subsist on another living being, there is the law of good sense also, for the human being is meant to obey the laws of the scriptures. This is impossible for other animals. The human being is meant for self-realization, and for that purpose he is not to eat anything which is not first offered to the Lord. The Lord accepts from His devotee all kinds of food preparations made of vegetables, fruits, leaves and grains. Fruits, leaves and milk in different varieties can be offered to the Lord, and after the Lord accepts the foodstuff, the devotee can partake of the #i#prasāda#/i#, by which all suffering in the struggle for existence will be gradually mitigated. This is confirmed in the #i#Bhagavad-gītā#/i# (BG 9.26). Even those who are accustomed to eat animals can offer foodstuff, not to the Lord directly, but to an agent of the Lord, under certain conditions of religious rites. Injunctions of the scriptures are meant not to encourage the eaters of animals, but to restrict them by regulated principles.
#$p#The living being is the source of subsistence for other, stronger living beings. No one should be very anxious for his subsistence in any circumstances because there are living beings everywhere, and no living being starves for want of food at any place. Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira is advised by Nārada not to worry about his uncles' suffering for want of food, for they could live on vegetables available in the jungles as #i#prasāda#/i# of the Supreme Lord and thus realize the path of salvation.
#$p#Exploitation of the weaker living being by the stronger is the natural law of existence; there is always an attempt to devour the weak in different kingdoms of living beings. There is no possibility of checking this tendency by any artificial means under material conditions; it can be checked only by awakening the spiritual sense of the human being by practice of spiritual regulations. The spiritual regulative principles, however, do not allow a man to slaughter weaker animals on one side and teach others peaceful coexistence. If man does not allow the animals peaceful coexistence, how can he expect peaceful existence in human society? The blind leaders must therefore understand the Supreme Being and then try to implement the kingdom of God. The kingdom of God, or Rāma-rājya, is impossible without the awakening of God consciousness in the mass mind of the people of the world.
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