Madhvaon Brahma Sūtra 3.1.25

It may be said that sacrificial work involves injury to life, and as such it is productive of sin and conse- quently of misery, and that, therefore, it is not to be per- formed. But this objection is to be refuted on the ground that the iujury to life involved in holy duties is permitted by the word (scripture) ; for the Yarahapurana says, “ To do harm to any life except as enjoined by scripture is really productive of sin and evil consequences; on the other hand, no evil consequences possibly arise from the act of killing permitted by the Vedas.” With the- statement, “ Even he who comes down from Svarga (as well as he who returns from hell) directly goes to the womb of the mother/’ how is the following Sruti to be consistently interpreted ? “ Into him who is the householder, who performs the act of generation, the journeying soul enters.” To clear this difficulty the Sutrakara says: .