Guest guest Posted November 22, 2003 Report Share Posted November 22, 2003 > In Vedic peroid some yajnas were practiced > > AshwaMedh > GouMedh > AjaMedh > > The real meaning of each of these word Vedic people knew. Over the > period they(words) lost meanings and people considered Ashwamedh = > to sacrifice Ashwa(Ghoda) -ghoda means horse > GouMedh = to sacrifice Gou(Gaya) gou means cow > AjaMedh = to sacrifice Aja(Bakara) bakara means goat > > . This wrong interpretations of these words resulted in heavy > sacrifices of Gou and Aja(Bakara). Gou was and is social animal with > lots of benifits. People knew it and so to stop unnecessary killings > of animal like Gou it was made forbidden in KaliYuga. > > > > 'Agnihotram gavalambam sanyasam palpaitrukam| > Deverachha sutoptathikaloupanchavivarjayet'| > Arthat: 'Kaliyug main panch(5) karma karane ke liye nishedh hain > agnihotra > Gavalamban(GouMedh) > Sanyas > palapaitruk yane mans pinda dekar shradha karana aur > devar se santati karava lena' > > > That is how people in KaliYuga stopped GouMedh and Hindus who follow > Vedic principle do not eat beef(Gou). > > > GouMeah > Actually in Vedic period Gou means Indriya most of the times. How > otherwise you justify a word GouSwami? Does that mean Nandi ya Bail > ya Hela ya Reda? Definitely not. We mean a Rishi or a saintly person > who has conquered his senses.So when Gou means Indriaya Vedic people > used to perform GouMedh that is IndriyaMedh that is IndriaNighriya. > They used to direct Indriya rather than guided by them. Over the > period this became difficult to implement and people considered it to > be Gaya or Beef. > > AshwaMedh > It also had similar problems. Ashwa is A+Shwa 'A' means absence > and 'Shwa' means breathing. So where Absence of Berathing is achieved > and only Shusmuna nadi works that state is called as Ashwa. So we > have to kill that state(avasta). Interestingly,only Kshatriyas were > allowed to perform AshwaMedh. Brahamans were not allowed. Bramhan > means Ashwa avasta. A Kshatriya is not supposed to go to Ashwa > avastha because he must look after his subjets. That is why AshwaMedh > was performed by Prabhu RamChandra and Yudhistir. It is difficult to > understand that Prabhu Ramchandra can kill a innocent Ghoda for his > peace of mind(ManahaShanti).It was to remember that being Kshtriya > they have to have Shawas(Nitya Karma). This was also misinterpreted > in the post vedic kala and people started killings Ghoda. > > Ajamedh > AjaMedh is A+ja(That has not taken birth) so AjaMedh means kill that > has not taken bitrh! Was that Abortion? Aja means Bramhavasta so not > to indulge in Bramahavsta is what AjaMedh means. Aja avastha means > Brhama avastha ko samasaman kar jo avastha utpana ho ti hain use > Sama+Aja Samaj kahate hain. So AjaMedh means Samaj ka uddhar. > > So Vedic people were > > AshawaMedhi(Jagrut) > GouMedhi(IndriyaNighra) > AjaMedhi(Samajsheel). > Over the period people took altogether diffrent and wrong > interpretations and hence question like Beef eating comes up. So when > entire world was practicising Vedic sanskruti some of them took > > GouMedh as Gou killings(Chirstains,Muslims) > some of them took it as GouSwami,GouWardhan,GouPal(Hindu) > Some of them took as Strong Indria Nirodh (Jain). > By no means Vedas allowed animal scarifiecs. So it is not only Gou > but any animal sacrifices are not allowed. > > http://www.geocities.com/yogirajharkare/basics.htm - 18k - Cached - > > > > namashkar ! > > by the same token, there are many souls who have attained liberation (moksha) and not all of them were pure vegetarians. Moksha depends on many factors including "prarabda" , "agaami" and "sanchita" karma. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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