SB 3.29.22

It is stated here…, herein clearly that the Supreme Personality of Godhead, in His plenary expansion of Supersoul, is present in all kinds of living entities. There are 8,400,000's of different kinds of bodies of living entities, and the Supreme Personality of Godhead is equally present either as individual soul or as Supersoul. An individual..., as individual soul is part and parcel of the Supreme Lord, so in that sense also the Supreme Personality of Godhead is living in every body, and as Supersoul as witness He is also there. So in both the cases, the presence of God in every living entity is essential. Therefore, persons who profess to belong to some religious principle or sect but does not feel the presence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead in every living entity or everywhere, he is to be considered as being in the modes of...

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...and without knowing this preliminary knowledge of the Lord's presence everywhere, if somebody is simply attached to the rituals in temples or church or mosque, he is compared as offering butter not into the fire but into the ashes. Sacrifice is offered by pouring clarified butter into fire with Vedic mantras. But here it is said that even there are Vedic mantras and everything all right, if the clarified butter is poured on the ashes, the..., such sacrifice is useless. In other words, that no living entity should be ignored by the devotee. The devotee must know that however insignificant, even an ant, a living entity may be, the presence of God is there. And as such every living entity should be kindly treated or, in other words, there should not be any kind of violence to any living entity. In modern civilized society, regular slaughterhouse is maintained, and it is supported by a certain type of civilized men professing certain type of religious principle. But without this knowledge, any so-called advancement of human civilization, either spiritually or materially, is to be understood as in the modes of ignorance.