Sacred bull Shambo to be slaughtered Thursday

[Ababeel]

Hindu scriptures give permission to have non-vegetarian food
a. There are many Hindus who are strictly vegetarian. They think it is against
their religion to consume non-vegetarian food. But the true fact is that the
Hindu scriptures permit a person to have meat. The scriptures mention
Hindu sages and saints consuming non-vegetarian food.
b. 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.”
c. 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.”
d. 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.”
e. Mahabharata Anushashan Parva chapter 88 narrates the discussion
between Dharmaraj Yudhishthira and Pitamah Bhishma about what food
one should offer to Pitris (ancestors) during the Shraddha (ceremony of
dead) to keep them satisfied. Paragraph reads as follows:
“Yudhishthira said, “O thou of great puissance, tell me what that object is
which, if dedicated to the Pitiris (dead ancestors), become inexhaustible!
What Havi, again, (if offered) lasts for all time? What, indeed, is that which
(if presented) becomes eternal?”
“Bhishma said, “Listen to me, O Yudhishthira, what those Havis are which
persons conversant with the rituals of the Shraddha (the ceremony of dead)
regard as suitable in view of Shraddha and what the fruits are that attach to
each. With sesame seeds and rice and barely and Masha and water and
roots and fruits, if given at Shraddhas, the pitris, O king, remain gratified for
the period of a month. With fishes offered at Shraddhas, the pitris remain
gratified for a period of two months. With the mutton they remain gratified
for three months and with the hare for four months, with the flesh of the
goat for five months, with the bacon (meat of pig) for six months, and with
the flesh of birds for seven. With venison obtained from those deer that
are called Prishata, they remaingratified for eight months, and with that
obtained from the Ruru for nine months, and with the meat of Gavaya for
ten months, With the meat of the bufffalo their gratification lasts for eleven
months. With beef presented at the Shraddha, their gratification, it is said ,
lasts for a full year. Payasa mixed with ghee is as much acceptable to the
pitris as beef. With the meat of Vadhrinasa (a large bull) the gratification
of pitris lasts for twelve years. the flesh of rhinoceros, offered to the pitris
on anniversaries of the lunar days on which they died, becomes
inexhaustible. The potherb called Kalaska, the petals of kanchana flower,
and meat of (red) goat also, thus offered, prove inexhaustible.
So but natural if you want to keep your ancestors satisfied forever, you
should serve them the meat of red goat.

 

[Ababeel]

Hinduism was influenced by other religions
Though Hindu Scriptures permit its followers to have non-vegetarian food, many
Hindus adopted the vegetarian system because they were influenced by other
religions like Jainism.

 

[con]

Hinduism was influenced by other religions
Though Hindu Scriptures permit its followers to have non-vegetarian food, many
Hindus adopted the vegetarian system because they were influenced by other
religions like Jainism.

Except Brahmins every other Hindus eat meat. Even Brahmins nowadays eat meat.
So where is the question about influence from other religion.

Hindus have been eating meat for ages. So it is just bull**** that Hindus are vegetarian becoz Jain are.

 

[Adux]

I love deer meat

 

[Marathaman]

Dude all you guys tearing apart Hinduism here are forgetting a simple fact: Hinduism isn't based on a single belief system. There are many many different sects of Hinduism that believe in many different things, some of which totally contradict each other.

So if you lump all Hindus together and look for contradictions and inconsistencies, you will find plenty of them.

But this is where the beauty of Hinduism lies....its open to new ideas and philosophies...we don't claim to derive our laws and principles from one single book, which is what makes Hindus more accepting and open than most other religious people.

Different sects of Hinduism don't go around attacking each other on the basis of theology. We believe in "one god, different paths".

Hindu extremists don't have theological backing. They don't claim to have the divine right to kill people of other faiths. They claim to fight against historical oppression of Hindus. Of course, I am not condoning extremism, but this fact makes Hindu extremism less lethal than other religious extremism.

So in my opinion, the claims that muslims make of allah being the only god, is proving to be their biggest problem in the modern world, where the very existence of god has been disproved by leading scientists.

Now all you muslims can feel free to tear apart my statements. Amen.

 

[bhangra12345]

Hinduism was influenced by other religions
Though Hindu Scriptures permit its followers to have non-vegetarian food, many
Hindus adopted the vegetarian system because they were influenced by other
religions like Jainism.

If I even think of saying that "Hinduism" was not not influenced by other religions, I would be lying. I remember a parable in which a sage named agasthya ate mutton.

Hinduism is a religion which has no "hard rules" as such. You can believe in one single god, many gods, no gods, believe only reason/logical debates.

Refer to the carvaka school of thought for the atheist/reason and debate school.

You can never visit any temple all your life and yet no one will even say that you are not a hindu. This is the beauty of it. The foundation is provided by the vedas and other scriptures. They are just that, the foundation. They then leave you open to build in any way you want to. It only depends on the effort the individual is willing to expend.

"To the Hindu, man is not travelling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth."

P.S: After writing this, I wondered to myself, whether this was my own trip to proselytizing.

 

[mustang]

Why dont the give the hindus the Sacred bull Shambo so they can rest easy ... its just a bull with TB ...