Gradual evolution

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"gradual evolution" |"gradual evolutionary"

Bhagavad-gita As It Is

BG Chapters 1 - 6

The animal sacrificed gets a human life immediately without undergoing the gradual evolutionary process from one form to another.

BG 2.31, Purport: "In the battlefield, a king or kṣatriya, while fighting another king envious of him, is eligible for achieving heavenly planets after death, as the brāhmaṇas also attain the heavenly planets by sacrificing animals in the sacrificial fire." Therefore, killing on the battlefield on religious principles and killing animals in the sacrificial fire are not at all considered to be acts of violence, because everyone is benefited by the religious principles involved. The animal sacrificed gets a human life immediately without undergoing the gradual evolutionary process from one form to another, and the kṣatriyas killed on the battlefield also attain the heavenly planets as do the brāhmaṇas who attain them by offering sacrifice.