Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:
>
> Slaughtering cows is barbaric and offensive to India
>
> By*Anuradha Dutt
> Op-Ed
> The Pioneer
> http://www.dailypioneer.com
> Monday, January 16, 2012
>
> 'Liberals' have condemned the anti cow-slaughter laws adopted by some
> States. In doing so, they ignore the sensitivities of the majority
> population
>
> The enactment of Cow Slaughter Prohibition (Amendment) Act, 2010 in
> Madhya Pradesh has elicited some vitriolic reactions, with one writer
> dwelling on the attractions of a beef steak. A similar diatribe in a
> Muslim nation, extolling the flavour of pork, would have been
> sufficient to get the police and clerics on the scribe's trail. But
> India happens to be a secular democracy, with the Constitutional
> directive to ban cow slaughter being flouted with impunity by West
> Bengal, Kerala and the North-East.
>
> The fact that most people in Hindu-majority India shun beef, and that
> the 1857 Mutiny against the British rule was triggered by the use of
> cow and pig lard on cartridges, seems to be of little concern to
> political parties that pander to minority sentiments or, more likely,
> beef, leather and exporters' cartels. The irony is that even Jammu &
> Kashmir, battered by Islamist terror, has a strong anti-cow slaughter
> Act, enforced in 1896 by the erstwhile Dogra monarchy.
>
> In the present instance, disturbed by the provisions for a seven-year
> jail term for a lapse and minimum fine of Rs 5,000, beef lobbyists
> have been quoting from the scriptures, like the Biblical Devil, to
> justify their stand. The onset of economic liberalisation was marked
> by a slew of supposedly scholarly features on the consumption of
> beef, especially as ritual food, by Hindus in Vedic and subsequent
> times.
>
> But that the interpretation of Sanskrit verses is geared towards
> demolishing traditional beliefs is evident from the following
> excerpts. Mahabharat, for instance, states in praise of cows: "Cows
> are the prestige of beings -- they are givers of all good. Cows were
> and will be the health-givers. Cows are the root of wealth and
> prosperity. Nothing that is given to the cows or is with them is
> lost. Cows are food itself. They give food and ghee and milk for the
> sacrifice. Oblations and offerings are inherent in the cow. Verily,
> cows are the very result of the sacrifice, and the yagyas are
> inherent in them."
>
> How easy would it be to twist the phrase, 'Cows are food itself', out
> of context to imply that ancient people routinely consumed beef.
> Besides cows' utility as milch animals, in farming, with dung and
> remains fertilising fields, and the use of panchgavya -- five
> products of milk, ghee, butter (and curd), dung and urine -- in
> Ayurvedic medicine and the first three as sacrificial offerings, they
> have sanctity in Indic metaphysics. The Shree Krishna avatar and his
> profound association with cows underline this belief.
>
> Preceding this, Atharv Ved says: "The cow, in the form of the
> universe, may fulfill our desires." The exalted position accorded to
> cows in the Vedas is denoted by the use of the term Dhenu (cow) for
> Aditi, mother of the gods, while the gods are referred to as gojaat
> (kin of the cows). 'Aghnya' is the word commonly used for cows in the
> Vedas, denoting that they should not be injured. These earliest
> available Sanskrit texts recount that the deity Indra freed the cows
> from the mountain and made them available to humans, though not for
> meat. The fire in which meat is roasted is not to be used for yagyas,
> with a phrase in Rg Ved stating: "I am taking away the fire far from
> the place of roasting."
>
> A verse in Yajur Ved abjures all violence: "Protect and rear the
> animals: do not hit the cow; do not hit the goats; nor the sheep; nor
> any other creature; nor two-legged animals; nor the one-legged; one
> should not injure any living being."
>
> Panchatantr which is a set of popular fables, aver: "If one can go to
> heaven by cutting down trees, killing animals and letting of blood of
> injured beings -- who will go to hell then?"
>
> About ritual sacrifice, Mahabharat says: "It is said that in the
> olden age, crops used to take the place of animals; and pious men,
> seeking heaven, used to perform their sacrifices with these only."
> Eight chapters of Anushasan Parva of Mahabharat concern the cow.
> Bheeshm, quoting from the Shrutis, says: "The cow is my mother; the
> bullock is the father; heaven is my shelter; and by this in the world
> arises my prestige."
>
> Further, he says: "The sacrifice becomes fruitful by her. She is the
> embryo of nectar and the prestige of the world. On earth, she is
> prosperity, birth-giving. All prosperity is due to the cow. This is
> the real truth."
>
> Devout Hindus, and especially the business class since millennia,
> have rendered service to cows by providing for the upkeep of cattle,
> even old, useless ones that are saved from slaughter houses. Some
> Islamic rulers, respecting such sentiments, also banned cow
> slaughter, which, however, was sanctioned by the British on a mass
> scale, for obtaining beef, leather and lard. Mechanised means of
> butchering facilitated the decimation of cattle and other creatures.
>
> http://www.dailypioneer.com/columnis...owsis-barbaric
> -and-offensive-to-india.html
>
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>
> Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
> Om Shanti
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Forwarded post from S. N.

The author is living in a fool's paradise. Only Minorities have
rights and feelings in India.

End of forwarded post from S. N.

Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti