Fw: meat-eating!!

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> here are more quotations from hndu scriptures that forbid consumption of

animal flesh ,,,,

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> All great Indian saints and seers of India like Kapila, Vyasa, Panini,

Patanjali, Shankaracharya, Chaitanya, etc., all Sufi saints of Islam and all the

great apostles of peace like Mahatma Buddha, Bhagwan Mahavir, Guru Nanak and

Mahatma Gandhi who taught the lesson of non-violence, were all pure vegetarians

and were against the eating of flesh-food, because right thinking and spiritual

attainment are not possible with meat eating.

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> It says in the Laws of Manu (5:55): "He who gives permission, he who kills the

animal, he who sells the slaughtered animal, he who cooks the animal, he who

administers the distribution of the flesh, and at last he who eats the flesh are

all murderers and all of them are punishable under the law of karma."

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> "If one has a strong desire for meat, he may make an animal out of clarified

butter, or one of flour, and eat that. But let him never seek to destroy a

living being..." (Manu 5:37)

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> "Meat can never be obtained without injury to living creatures, and injury to

sentient beings is detrimental to the attainment of heavenly bliss; let him

therefore shun the use of meat." (Manu)

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> "Having well considered the disgusting origin of flesh and the cruelty of

fettering and slaying of corporeal beings, let him entirely abstain from eating

flesh." (Manu)

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> "Those who never harm others by (physical deeds), by thought and speech, in

whatever condition they may be, do not go to Yama's abode. Men who harm other

creatures do not go to heaven, in spite of their reciting Vedas, giving gifts,

practicing austerities or performing sacrifices. Harmlessness is a great form of

piety. Harmlessness alone is a great penance. Harmlessness is a great gift. This

is what the sages always say." (Padma Purana III 31-25-28)

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> "Whoever eats raw or cooked flesh, and whoever destroys a foetus shall be

destroyed by us from here." (Atharva Veda 8.6.23)

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> "The Hero Bhisma has described as sinners all those who eat meat, those who

trade in meat and those who kill animals for their flesh. (Anushasana Parva of

the Mahabharata)

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> In Satyartha Prakash Maharishi Dayananda has said that meat eating makes a

person's temperament violence prone.

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> "One should treat animals such as deer, camels, asses, monkeys, mice, snakes,

birds and flies exactly like one's own son. How little difference there actually

is between children and these innocent animals." - (Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.14.9)

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> "A cruel and wretched person who maintains his existence at the cost of

others' lives deserves to be killed for his own eternal well being, otherwise he

will go down by his own actions." - (Srimad Bhagavatam 1.7.37)

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> The great sage and saint Chanakya Pandit said that those who eat meat or drink

alcohol are animals in human form and a burden on a suffering earth. In the

Bhagavad Gita Lord Sri Krishna says: "...aham bija-pradah pita - I am the

seed-giving father of all beings..." (14.4), ... in the heart of all ...

(15.15), and .. the only friend of all living creatures..." (5.29). "If one

offers Me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, fruit, or water, I will

accept it." (9.26)

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> Only pure non-violent food is accepted and by partaking of such food offered

in sacrifice the devotee is blessed: "The devotee of Lord are released from all

kinds of sins because they eat food which is offered first for sacrifice.

Others, who prepare food for personal sense enjoyment, verily eat only sin." -

(Bhagavad Gita 3:13)

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> Bhagavad Gita describes 3 categories of food:

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> 1) sattvic food such as fruits, vegetables, cereals, pulses, nuts, milk,

butter etc. promote longevity, intellect and strength while granting pleasure,

peace of mind, compassion, non-violence and equanimity, and save the body, heart

and mind from all impurities.

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> 2) rajasic food includes very hot, sour, bitter, spicy and dry substances.

This kind of food creates perverted feelings, sorrow, decease and tensions.

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> 3) tamasic food such a stale, juiceless, half-cooked, evil smelling, rotting,

impure, intoxicating materials and meat, etc., which lead man to evil deeds,

cloud their intellect, give rise to disease, laziness and other evil qualities.

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> His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder-Acarya of the

Hare Krishna Movement states:

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> "No one can create a living being despite all advancement of material science,

and therefore no one has the right to kill a living being by one's independent

whims. The material world is itself a place always full of anxieties, and by

encouraging animal slaughter the whole atmosphere becomes polluted more and more

by war, pestilence, famine and many other unwanted calamities."

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> "All living entities have to fulfil a certain duration for being encaged in a

particular type of material body. They have to finish the duration allotted in a

particular body before being promoted or evolved to another body. Killing an

animal or any other living being simply places and impediment in the way of his

completing his term of imprisonment in a certain body. One should therefore not

kill bodies for one's sense gratification, for this will implicate one in sinful

activity."

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> SIKHISM:

> The Prasad served in Gurudwara is always vegetarian. Guru Nanak Dev always

consumed only vegetarian food.

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> Kabir Sahib's teachings of pity, non-violence and his condemnation of

meat-eating have been highlighted at various pages in the Adi Granth. All Guru

Sahibs have very clearly forbidden violence. And when violence is prohibited,

the question of eating fish, fowls and flesh does not arise. After years of

intensive research, the Shiromani Gurudwara Prabhandak Committee has published

the order and edicts of the Gurus in the form a book. One of those Hukum-namas

reads as follows: "It is the order of the True Lord to the entire body of the

Khalsa... that they shall abstain from bhang, tobacco, opium, alcohol and desist

from eating meat, fish, onions, nor indulge in theft and lust..."

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> The food in the Langar of all Sikh Guruwaras is compulsorily vegetarian.

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