On Jul 8, 3:58*pm, and/or www.mantra.com/jai (Dr.
Jai Maharaj) wrote:
> In article >,
> *fanabba > posted:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:
>
> > Reasons Why Hindus Don't Eat Meat
>
> > Forwarded article from:
> >http://www.hinduismtoday.com
>
> > WHY HINDUS DON'T EAT MEAT
>
> > Besides being an expression of compassion
> > for animals, vegetarianism is followed for
> > ecological and health rationales
>
> > REASONS
>
> > * * In the past fifty years, millions of meat-eaters --
> > Hindus and non-Hindus -- have made the personal decision
> > to stop eating the flesh of other creatures. *There are
> > five major motivations for such a decision:
>
> > 1. The Dharmic Law Reason
>
> > * * Ahinsa, the law of noninjury, is the Hindu's first
> > duty in fulfilling religious obligations to God and God's
> > creation as defined by Vedic scripture.
>
> > 2. The Karmic Consequences Reason
>
> > * * All of our actions, including our choice of food,
> > have Karmic consequences. *By involving oneself in the
> > cycle of inflicting injury, pain and death, even
> > indirectly by eating other creatures, one must in the
> > future experience in equal measure the suffering caused.
>
> > 3. The Spiritual Reason
>
> > * * Food is the source of the body's chemistry, and what
> > we ingest affects our consciousnes, emotions and
> > experiential patterns. *If one wants to live in higher
> > consciousness, in peace and happiness and love for all
> > creatures, then he cannot eat meat, fish, shellfish, fowl
> > or eggs. *By ingesting the grosser chemistries of animal
> > foods, one introduces into the body and mind anger,
> > jealousy, anxiety, suspicion and a terrible fear of
> > death, all of which are locked into the the flesh of the
> > butchered creatures. *For these reasons, vegetarians live
> > in higher consciousness and meat-eaters abide in lower
> > consciousness.
>
> > 4. The Health Reason
>
> > * * Medical studies prove that a vegetarian diet is
> > easier to digest, provides a wider ranger of nutrients
> > and imposes fewer burdens and impurities on the body.
> > Vegetarians are less susceptible to all the major
> > diseases that afflict contemporary humanity, and thus
> > live longer, healthier, more productive lives. *They have
> > fewer physical complaints, less frequent visits to the
> > doctor, fewer dental problems and smaller medical bills.
> > Their immune system is stronger, their bodies are purer,
> > more refined and skin more beautiful.
>
> > 5. The Ecological Reason
>
> > * * Planet Earth is suffereing. *In large measure, the
> > escalating loss of species, destruction of ancient
> > rainforests to create pasture lands for live stock, loss
> > of topsoils and the consequent increase of water
> > impurities and air pollution have all been traced to the
> > single fact of meat in the human diet. *No decision that
> > we can make as individuals or as a race can have such a
> > dramatic effect on the improvement of our planetary
> > ecology as the decision not to eat meat.
>
> > HISTORY
>
> > The book FOOD FOR THE SPIRIT, VEGETARIANISM AND THE WORLD
> > RELIGIONS, observes, "Despite popular knowledge of meat-
> > eating's adverse effects, the nonvegetarian diet became
> > increasingly widespread among the Hindus after the two
> > major invasions by foreign powers, first the Muslims and
> > later the British. *With them came the desire to be
> > 'civilized,' to eat as did the Saheeb. *Those atually
> > trained in Vedic knowledge, however, never adopted a
> > meat-oriented diet, and the pious Hindu still observes
> > vegetarian principles as a matter of religious duty.
>
> > * * "That vegetarianism has always been widespread in
> > India is clear from the earliest Vedic texts. *This was
> > observed by the ancient traveler Megasthenes and also by
> > Fa-Hsien, a Chinese Buddhist monk who, in the fifth
> > century, traveled to India in order to obtain authentic
> > copies of the scriptures.
>
> > * * "These scriptures unambiguously support the meatless
> > way of life. *In the MAHABHARAT, for instance, the great
> > warrior Bheeshm explains to Yuddhishtira, eldest of the
> > Paandav princes, that the meat of animals is like the
> > flesh of one's own son. *Similarly, the MANUSMRITI
> > declares that one should 'refrain from eating all kinds
> > of meat,' for such eating involves killing and and leads
> > to Karmic bondage (Bandh) [5.49]. *Elsewhere in the Vedic
> > literature, the last of the great Vedic kings, Maharaja
> > Parikshit, is quoted as saying that 'only the animal-
> > killer cannot relish the message of the Absolute Truth
> > [Shrimad Bhagvatam 10.1.4].'"
>
> > SCRIPTURE
>
> > * * He who desires to augment his own flesh by eating
> > the flesh of other creatures lives in misery in whatever
> > species he may take his birth.
> > MAHABHARAT 115.47
>
> > * * Those high-souled persons who desire beauty,
> > faultlessness of limbs, long life, understanding, mental
> > and physical strength and memory should abstain from acts
> > of injury. MAHABHARAT 18.115.8
>
> > * * The very name of cow is Aghnya ["not to be killed"],
> > indicating that they should never be slaughtered. *Who,
> > then could slay them? *Surely, one who kills a cow or a
> > bull commits a heinous crime. MAHABHARAT, SHANTIPARV
> > 262.47
>
> > * * The purchaser of flesh performs Hinsa (violence) by
> > his wealth; he who eats flesh does so by enjoying its
> > taste; the killer does Hinsa by actually tying and
> > killing the animal. Thus, there are three forms of
> > killing: he who brings flesh or sends for it, he who cuts
> > off the limbs of an animal, and he who purchases, sells
> > or cooks flesh and eats it -- all of these are to be
> > considered meat-eaters. MAHABHARAT, ANU 115.40
>
> > * * *He who sees that the Lord of all is ever the same
> > in all that is -- immortal in the field of mortality --
> > he sees the truth. *And when a man sees that the God in
> > himself is the same God in all that is, he hurts not
> > himself by hurting others. *Then he goes, indeed, to the
> > highest path. BHAGVAD GEETA 13.27-28
>
> > * * Ahinsa is the highest Dharm. *Ahinsa is the best
> > Tapas. Ahinsa is the greatest gift. *Ahinsa is the
> > highest self-control. *Ahinsa is the highest sacrifice.
> > Ahinsa is the highest power. *Ahinsa is the highest
> > friend. *Ahinsa is the highest truth. *Ahinsa is the
> > highest teaching. MAHABHARAT 18.116.37-41
>
> > * * What is the good way? *It is the path that reflects
> > on how it may avoid killing any creature. TIRUKURAL 324
>
> > * * All that lives will press palms together in
> > prayerful adoration of those who refuse to slaughter and
> > savor meat. TIRUKURAL 260
>
> > * * What is virtuous conduct? *It is never destroting
> > life, for killing leads to every other sin. TIRUKURAL
> > 312, 321
>
> > * * Goodness is never one with the minds of these two:
> > one who wields a weapon and one who feasts on a
> > creature's flesh. TIRUKURAL 253
>
> > End of forwarded article from:
> >http://www.hinduismtoday.com
>
> > Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi, Vedic Astrologer
> > Born and raised in a Hindu family in Varanasi, a vegetarian since birth
> > Om Shanti
>
> > The principles of *Sanatan Dharm *are profound in their wisdom !
>
> Jai ho Sanatan Dharm kee!
>
> Tributes to Hinduism
>
> 1. Mahatma Gandhi:
>
> "Hinduism has made marvelous discoveries in things of
> religion, of the spirit, of the soul. We have no eye for
> these great and fine discoveries. We are dazzled by the
> material progress that western science has made. Ancient
> India has survived because Hinduism was not developed
> along material but spiritual lines.
>
> "India is to me the dearest country in the world, because
> I have discovered goodness in it. It has been subject to
> foreign rule, it is true. But the status of a slave is
> preferable to that of a slave holder."
>
> 2. Henry David Thoreau:
>
> "In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous
> and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita in
> comparison with which our modern world and its literature
> seems puny.
>
> "What extracts from the Vedas I have read fall on me like
> the light of a higher and purer luminary, which describes
> a loftier course through purer stratum. It rises on me
> like the full moon after the stars have come out, wading
> through some far stratum in the sky."
>
> 3. Arthur Schopenhauer:
>
> "In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and
> so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the
> solace of my life -- it will be the solace of my death."
>
> 4. Ralph Waldo Emerson said this about the Gita:
>
> "I owed a magnificent day to the Bhagavad Gita. It was as
> if an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but
> large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old
> intelligence which in another age and climate had
> pondered and thus disposed of the same questions which
> exercise us."
>
> The famous poem "Brahm" is an example of his Vedanta
> ecstasy.
>
> 5. Wilhelm von Humboldt pronounced the Gita as:
>
> "The most beautiful, perhaps the only true philosophical
> song existing in any known tongue ... perhaps the deepest
> and loftiest thing the world has to show."
>
> 6. Lord Warren Hastings, the Governor General, was very
> much impressed with Hindu philosophy:
>
> "The writers of the Indian philosophies will survive,
> when the British dominion in India shall long have ceased
> to exist, and when the sources which it yielded of wealth
> and power are lost to remembrances."
>
> 7. Mark Twain:
>
> "So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left
> undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most
> extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds.
> Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.
>
> "Land of religions, cradle of human race, birthplace of
> human speech, grandmother of legend, great grandmother of
> tradition. The land that all men desire to see and having
> seen once even by a glimpse, would not give that glimpse
> for the shows of the rest of the globe combined."
>
> 8. Rudyard Kipling to Fundamental Christian Missionaries:
>
> "Now it is not good for the Christian's health to hustle
> the Hindu brown for the Christian riles and the Hindu
> smiles and weareth the Christian down; and the end of the
> fight is a tombstone while with the name of the ...
>
> read more »- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Dhanyavaad for your seva to Sanatan Dharm !

Eating MEAT as PER HINDU VEDAS / MAHABHARATA
21 February 2010
By Muktak Joshi


HINDU SCRIPTURES ALLOW NON-VEGETARIAN FOODSome Hindus think that it is
against their religion to have non-vegetarian food But the fact is that
the Hindu scriptures permit a person to have meat The scripture mentions
sages and saints having meat. Hindu scriptures clearly mention that
there is nothing wrong in having meat.It is mentioned in Manu Smruti,
the law book of Hindus!

In chapter 5 verse 30 “The eater who eats the flesh of those to be eaten
does nothing bad! even if he does it day after day; for God himself
created some to be eaten and some to be eater”Again next verse of Manu
Smruti that is; chapter 5 verse 31 says “Eating meat is right for the
sacrifice, this is traditionally known as a rule of the gods”Further in
Manu Smruti chapter 5 verse 39 and 40 says “God himself created
sacrificial animals for sacrifice… therefore killing in a sacrifice is
not killing.”Manu Smruti even narrates the supremacy of killing animals
in sacrifice it is mentioned in chapter 5 verse 42 “A twice born (a
Brahmin) who knows the true meaning of Vedas and injures sacrificial
animals for CORRECT PURPOSES cause both himself and the animal to go to
the highest level of existence”.

Among the Hindu scriptures Vedas are considered as most ancient and most
sacred. We find mentioning of non-vegetarian food in Vedas too it is
mentioned in Rig-Veda book 10 Hymn 27 verse 2 “Then will I, when I lead
my friends to battle against the radiant persons of godless, prepare for
thee at home a vigorous bullock, and pour for thee the fifteen fold
strong juices”Again in RigVeda book 10 Hymn 28 verse 3 it says “0 Indra,
Bulls they dress for thee, and of these (meat) thou eatest when
Maghavan, with food thou art invited”. In Rig veda Book 10 Hymn 86 verse
13 says “indra will eat thy bulls, thy dear oblation that effecteth
much. Supreme is Indra over all”These verses indicates that Indra, a god
of vedic age, used to eat meat.Also another god of vedic age, Agni, is
referred to as “flesh-eater’ in vedas.

Mo http://veeaar.com/archives/136


--
Astrology: Fraud or Superstition?
http://www.seesharppress.com/astro.html

Ass-troll-ogers/jyotishitheads are the bane of humanity, and must be
cleansed or otherwise purified for the benefit of society.

http://www.nowpublic.com/world/vhp-terrorism

On 7/8/2011 6:03 PM, Jay Stevens Maharaj aka the jumpin' jackass
jyotishithead aka the abominable ass-troll-oger wrote:


>> Five Reasons to Be a Vegetarian

http://www.i-mockery.com/meatatarian/hitler.jpg

--
Astrology: Fraud or Superstition?
http://www.seesharppress.com/astro.html

Ass-troll-ogers/jyotishitheads are the bane of humanity, and must be
cleansed or otherwise purified for the benefit of society.

http://www.nowpublic.com/world/vhp-terrorism