If you commit a murder, you have to repay this murdering sin by your own life. That is, of course, imperfect law, man-made law. Similarly, in God's law also, if you kill any living entity, you have to suffer from that. Because in the God's eye there is no question of man or animal or ant or fly or something like that. Every living entity is the son of God.
Now, suppose your father has got five sons. One of them is worthless, is doing nothing. And if the other son says: "My dear father, this son, your youngest son, or this son, is worthless. He is doing nothing. Let us kill him," will your father agree? Because he is worthless, will your father agree? No, he will say: "No, no, no. You have nothing to do. He is not harming you. He is eating my . . . my subsistence. I am paying for his subsistence. Why you should kill him?"
So similarly, in this material nature, all these living entities in different forms, they have come for material enjoyment, and everything is being supplied by the Supreme Lord. We have no right to kill them. We have no right. According to God's law, if one is conscious . . . the same thing. Just like the father will never agree to kill a worthless child by the competent boy. No.
So consciously or unconsciously, we are committing. Suppose I am not willingly killing any animal, but unconsciously I am killing so many living entities by my walking, by my so many things. They are called pañca-yajñas in the Vedic . . . so, and even if we do not kill animals, simply by eating vegetables, they are also life. It does not mean that vegetarians are not killing. They are also killing. The law is that a living entity lives by killing other living entity. That is the law. Those who have got hands, they are killing those who have got legs. Just like man is killing animal. The animal is eating the grass, those who have no legs. So this is the law.