Sri Lankan president offers prayers at Tirupati Balaji Temple

[Skyline]

You should ban selling meat in open place, it may scare the Sinhala kids.

Don't act like a fool. Killing and selling is 2 different things. Meat isn't available in open places in most areas in SL.

 

[HeinzG]

Welcome to India except Tamil Nadu

Who cares about Tamilnadu... where people without spines and rationality lives.

 

[INDIC]

Don't act like a fool. Killing and selling is 2 different things. Meat isn't available in open places in most areas in SL.

That mutton is also eaten after sacrifice. Hindu way slaughtering is least painful after slaughtering by stuuning. I can post pictures, how meat or chicken are sold in SL.

 

[IFB]

animal sacrifice should be banned, they are quite rare in hindu temples now.

Once a year many hindu temples in tamil nadu they give sacrifice to please their family god - my dad usually kills a couple of chickens every year during those times - as i get scared as a young kid watching the blood - so now he just strangles them or break their neck in quick succession - there is this other famous ritual which happens in every place in tamil nadu its called "mayana kollai" where thousands of goats are killed to please the goddess - mostly the priest bites of the throat of the goat or rips the goat apart with his mouth - very gruesome to watch - my dad usually forces me to to watch these rituals to get the blessings of the goddess - but i go to look at girls only now .

 

[Skyline]

That mutton is also eaten after sacrifice. Hindu way slaughtering is least painful after slaughtering by stuuning. I can post pictures, how meat or chicken are sold in SL.

This is not a matter of way of killing, how do u say "hindu" way is least painful? whatever way it is painful to those poor animals.

Go a head post it, named the area too!

 

[jbond197]

That mutton is also eaten after sacrifice. Hindu way slaughtering is least painful after slaughtering by stuuning. I can post pictures, how meat or chicken are sold in SL.

What Hindu way of slaughtering are you talking about? How can one classify killing of some one as less painful or more painful?

I am sure most of the people who eat meat can not kill the animals themselves be it less painful or more and I am one of them..

Don't act like a fool. Killing and selling is 2 different things. Meat isn't available in open places in most areas in SL.

But my Sri lankan friend here told me that beef and other meat is commonly eaten in Sri lanka and is available every where. Before talking to him, I used to think at least Buddhists in Sri lanka are not meat eaters..

 

[Skyline]

But my Sri lankan friend here told me that beef and other meat is commonly eaten in Sri lanka and is available every where. Before talking to him, I used to think at least Buddhists in Sri lanka are not meat eaters..

Yep, It's true. In Buddhism we haven't a ban on eating beef or pork or anything, but if we kill some animal for our food we collect a sin to our account.

 

[t_for_talli]

Why does a theravada buddhist visit a vaishnavite hindu shrine ?

Lord Buddha is considered as one of the avatar of Lord Vishnu
I visit Buddhist temples some times
Thats the thing with Dharma religions, A Hindu/Buddhist/Jain/Sikh can go to any holy place(including Abharamic ones) and offer prayers unlike Abharamic religions where you are bound to bow to only one god

 

[Rusty]

Lord Buddha is considered as one of the avatar of Lord Vishnu
I visit Buddhist temples some times
Thats the thing with Dharma religions, A Hindu/Buddhist/Jain/Sikh can go to any holy place(including Abharamic ones) and offer prayers unlike Abharamic religions where you are bound to bow to only one god

Since you are the one who brought it up, let no one here accuse me of bringing religion into this thread.

The difference between Abrahamic religion and Dharma religions is that in Dharma religions anyone can make anything up and claim it to be part of their religion, while Abrahamic religions don't allow that and have standards.

Some Hindus claim that it is against their religion to kill any animals and look down at people who do kill and eat animals. Yet other Hindus not only think it's okay to kill animals but consider it a part of the religion.
So which one is it? Is it that no animal should be killed and eaten and everyone should be a vegetariani? Or that it's okay to kill and eat animals and subsequently sacrifice them?
Of course this is just one of the schizophrenic aspects of Dharma religions. There has never been any confusion in Abrahamic religions about sacrificing and killing animals, and that is a fact.

 

[scorpionx]

Since you are the one who brought it up, let no one here accuse me of bringing religion into this thread.
Of course this is just one of the schizophrenic aspects of Dharma religions. There has never been any confusion in Abrahamic religions about sacrificing and killing animals, and that is a fact.

When you are talking about a 5000 year old philosophy with thousand of diverging sects and beliefs, some times this religion may seem to be schizophrenic which is not in the real case. We never had any definite instructions in our ancient texts about what to eat or what to wear specifically. But the later divisions like Shaktas and the Vaishnavas according to their philosophical belief chose their own way to worship the God and so became the food habits.
If you want to criticize this 5000 years old religion do not run behind the rituals, food habits or erotic stories of Puranas. In this process you may lost your way .We have much much more valuable assets in our philosophy gathered and researched by countless scholars over the last 1000 years or so.

 

[Rusty]

When you are talking about a 5000 year old philosophy with thousand of diverging sects and beliefs, some times this religion may seem to be schizophrenic which is not in the real case. We never had any definite instructions in our ancient texts about what to eat or what to wear specifically. But the later divisions like Shaktas and the Vaishnavas according to their philosophical belief chose their own way to worship the God and so became the food habits.
If you want to criticize this 5000 years old religion do not run behind the rituals, food habits or erotic stories of Puranas. In this process you may lost your way .We have much much more valuable assets in our philosophy gathered and researched by countless scholars over the last 1000 years or so.

so your defense is that since the religion is so old, no one really knows what the actual cannon is.
I would agree to that. I would also suggest that either Hindus need to get together and decide what is Hinduism and what not, or continue down this schizophrenic pathway to the point where two people who claim to be Hindus could hardly be recognized by their rituals and actions.

Of course if you do the first thing, then you will be no better than those evil Abrahamic religions.
And if you take the second route, then you have no coherent ideology and the term "Hinduism" ceases to have any meaning.
Personally I think Hinduism is already heading down road number two and in a few generations the term Hinduism will be as descriptive as the word "thinggy"

PS. please don't Hindu rage on this, all opinions are just my opinions and not meant to trigger any inferiority complex in anyone.

 

[Cherokee]

Since you are the one who brought it up, let no one here accuse me of bringing religion into this thread.

The difference between Abrahamic religion and Dharma religions is that in Dharma religions anyone can make anything up and claim it to be part of their religion, while Abrahamic religions don't allow that and have standards.

Some Hindus claim that it is against their religion to kill any animals and look down at people who do kill and eat animals. Yet other Hindus not only think it's okay to kill animals but consider it a part of the religion.
So which one is it? Is it that no animal should be killed and eaten and everyone should be a vegetariani? Or that it's okay to kill and eat animals and subsequently sacrifice them?
Of course this is just one of the schizophrenic aspects of Dharma religions. There has never been any confusion in Abrahamic religions about sacrificing and killing animals, and that is a fact.

That is good part about Dharmic Religion . No one will behead you or start lobbing terms like "kafir" or "khawarij" if your line of practice is different from the other ones .

Dharmic religions , do not focus on what you eat or how you pray or even whom you Pray .

GOD is justa SPIRITUAL BOND . It's between god and his follower not some random GODMEN to tell us what we should do what we shan't . Its a PERSONAL journey to Spiritualism .

 

[HeinzG]

Since you are the one who brought it up, let no one here accuse me of bringing religion into this thread.

The difference between Abrahamic religion and Dharma religions is that in Dharma religions anyone can make anything up and claim it to be part of their religion, while Abrahamic religions don't allow that and have standards.

Some Hindus claim that it is against their religion to kill any animals and look down at people who do kill and eat animals. Yet other Hindus not only think it's okay to kill animals but consider it a part of the religion.
So which one is it? Is it that no animal should be killed and eaten and everyone should be a vegetariani? Or that it's okay to kill and eat animals and subsequently sacrifice them?
Of course this is just one of the schizophrenic aspects of Dharma religions. There has never been any confusion in Abrahamic religions about sacrificing and killing animals, and that is a fact.

In dharmic religions you have a choice and your choice determines the outcome. But in Abrahmic religions you don't have a choice but set of rules which you have to follow even when you know they are wrong.

 

[Cherokee]

In dharmic religions you have a choice and your choice determines the outcome. But in Abrahmic religions you don't have a choice but set of rules which you have to follow even when you know they are wrong.

Absolutely , The concept of Karma ....

And Karma is more important that "dharma" .

 

[jbond197]

Absolutely , The concept of Karma ....

And Karma is more important that "dharma" .

Nopes. Dharma teaches you to do good Karma so both have their own importance. Also, Dharma does not mean bowing down in front of god but it is about making you a good human being.