​Is the Gita’s statement that all endeavors are covered by faults applicable to a butcher’s profession?

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thank you, Hare Krishna so Krishna says all endeavours are covered by faults so can we say that this applies also to a butcher who is born in a family where they have to kill but then we also say that this is a animal killing should be avoided ok there are two different perspectives here first is the the transcendental perspective and the second is the material or the social perspective so now we are all born with certain starting points certain situations in our life but we are not restricted by those starting points lifelong so some people may be born poor but they can become wealthy if they work hard, if they save properly manage their finances, they can become wealthy on the other hand some people may be born very wealthy but if they squander their money they may be reduced to poverty later on so our starting point does shape certain things about us but we do have capacity to change after that so from the social perspective somebody is born a butcher they have many generations like that and that’s how they have been living they have established profession also established source of economy sources of livelihood to change that will be very difficult so that is perfectly understandable and from the transcendental perspective give up everything for Krishna’s sake so ultimately no, I don’t need anything please continue I don’t need anything please continue so so now people cannot immediately move from the social towards the transcendental level so what we should do is if somebody is in that situation we encourage them to add Krishna in their life and if we sincerely add Krishna in their life gradually Krishna will give them the intelligence also about how to either minimize the violence in their profession or change their profession what to do even in a any situation that we are in we can actually be in a situation of great violation or little violation so for example Prabhupada was not rigidly against meat-eating that is for his followers he wanted them to be meat-eating but there is one conversation where he says that even if you have to eat meat wait for the animal to die naturally then take its meat that way you are not killing it this is an example of how something can be done so Prabhupada accommodating there you have to eat meat, you cannot make this arrangement so like that for people who have been born from particular backgrounds we understand that it is by their past karma that they are born in this background so their starting point is because of their past karma so so they have to work harder they may have to work harder and it may take it may not happen in this lifetime also it may take multiple lifetimes also and for that matter even for us also we can’t say we are going to go to Krishna in one lifetime so rather than expecting rather than expecting a high standard for people or demanding a high standard rather, you can focus on encouraging them to add Krishna in their lives and once Krishna is added in their lives things will reveal themselves tadami buddhi hogam tam yena mam upayanti te Krishna said that by by that I will give you the intelligence by which you can come to me so even in our own life if you are not able to find out what our nature is it is it is best not to change things too much if I am in a particular profession let me continue in this unless I feel strong incompatibility with it the nature of the mind is to always make us feel dissatisfied so rather than worrying so I am happy you are talking so we just focus on trying to do the best we can and if we keep trying to do our bhakti also nicely after sometime it will become clear as the mode of goodness comes this is really not compatible basically the mind is that whatever we are doing it will make us a little bit dissatisfied with it so we should just keep changing from one profession to another keep doing something for a substantial amount of time and then Krishna will give the intelligence to guide us how we can make our work more according to our nature that’s your question? yes Hare Krishna