Slaughterhouses of Children

CHILD SLAUGHTERHOUSES

It’s sad, but also common knowledge, that slaughterhouses kill thousands of helpless cows daily. But are you aware that there is another kind of slaughterhouse, many times more numerous, that kills children even more brutally than cows?

Generally it is understood that slaughterhouses are places where innocent animals are mercilessly killed for satisfying the taste buds of men with a demoniac mentality. Today we also have similar places to systematically slaughter innocent children in a sophisticated manner. These “child slaughterhouses” are the schools and colleges of the modern educational system.

“What?” you may ask. “This sounds very harsh and unreasonable.” Please read on and see for yourself the sad reality.

From the perspective of modern man, Hiraëyakaçipu  (“one who accumulates gold and enjoys material comforts”) was a thoroughly successful personage. His life was conducted solely by unrestricted lust and greed, the primary qualities required for becoming a success today. He wanted his son Prahläda to follow in his footsteps, to become lusty and greedy and achieve material success. So he sent Prahläda to the renowned teachers of that time, Ñaëòa and Amarka, the sons of Çukräcärya (one meaning of this name is “expert in imparting sex education”).

Prahläda’s teachers tried their best to kill all the devotion for the Supreme Lord, Viñëu, that Prahläda had imbibed (while in the womb of his mother) from his spiritual master, Närada Muni.

Each child born has received a precious gift—after having passed perhaps through millions of other species—in the form of the rare human birth, whereby one can perfect his existence by reviving his forgotten relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and thus end once and for all the cycle of repeated birth and death. The Vedic literature enjoins:

gurur na sa syät sva-jano na sa syät

pitä na sa syäj janané na sä syät

daivaà na tat syän na patiç ca sa syän

na mocayed yaù samupeta-måtyum

“One who cannot deliver his dependents from the path of repeated birth and death should never become a spiritual master, a father, a husband, a mother or a worshipable demigod.” (SB 5.5.18: “Lord Åñabhadeva’s Teachings to His Sons”)