[world-vedic] Dalai Lama and meat

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Laxmi N. Gupta wrote:

> Practically all Thais, Cambodians. Laotians and Vietnamese eat meat and

they are predominantly Buddhists.

 

Correction! They are NOT Buddhists because Lord Buddha's philosophy is

:ahimsa paro dharma non violence. Lord Buddha himself preached and practiced

this but these

societies are like modern day rubber-stamped Christians. Although Christ

said "Though shall not kill" they discard his instruction for satisfaction

of the tongue.

 

>Lord Rama was a meat eater as any serious reader of Valmiki Ramayan knows.

 

This is your own mental speculation. If you actually accept this provide us

with

*exact* Chapter, text ,synonyms.

 

>Swami Vivekananda and Paramhamsa Ramakrishna were also meat eaters.

 

So --who cares for these deviants?

 

68-02-25.Letter: Satsvarupa

You may know also that Ramakrishna's worship of Kali makes him a third

class man. In the Bhagavad-gita it is stated that one who worships the

demigods just like Brahma, Siva, Indra, Candra or demigoddesses like Kali,

Durga, Sarasvati, etc., are described as persons who have lost their

intelligence. One person who has lost his intelligence, how he can become an

incarnation of God? A person who has lost his intelligence, is not even

counted amongst the higher section of society. So, the Ramakrishna is a

bogus man according to the statement of Bhagavad-gita. Vivekananda was also

not even intelligent man because he accepted Ramakrsna as incarnation of

God. This Ramakrsna, who is actually Gadadhara Chatterjee, declared himself

as the same Rama and Krsna. If he is accepted as such by some person, is he

very intelligent man? Suppose a man comes before somebody and says he is

Pres. Johnson. and the foolish man accepts the pretender as Pres. Johnson,

is that man to be accepted as very intelligent man? Vivekananda was not even

an intelligent man because he accepted Gadhadhara Chatterjee as incarnation

of God without any credentials. We accept Krsna, the Supreme Personality of

Godhead on the evidence of Vedic literature. There is no evidence in the

Vedic literatures that a common unintelligent person by worshipping a

demigoddess Kali can become an incarnation of Godhead. The goddess Kali is

divine mother for the conditioned souls, not for the liberated souls. There

is no direction in the Vedic literatures that one can become liberated even

by worshipping the goddess Kali. She is superintendent of the prison house

known as material world. One can derive some material facilities by

worshipping Kali or Durga, but nobody can become liberated by worshipping

such demigoddesses, so what to speak of becoming incarnation of Godhead. So

the propaganda that Ramakrsna became incarnation of God by worshipping Kali

is not accepted by any authorized acharya and therefore it is a bogus

propaganda. One who follows therefore, such bogus propaganda is also misled

as far as his spiritual advancement is concerned.

 

>I think the link between vegetarianism and spirituality is very tenuous.

 

Its not a question of vegetarianism but *honouring Krishna prasadam* because

many asses are also vegatarian that does not make one spiritual.

 

731020BG.BOM Lectures

Just like Krsna wants, patram puspam phalam toyam yo me bhaktya

prayacchati. Krsna does not say, "Give me meat and drinking wine." Krsna can

eat everything. He is omnipotent. But He does not say that "You give me

anything and everything." No. He specifically mentions, patram puspam phalam

toyam yo me bhaktya prayacchati. These things are the foodstuffs in

goodness: rice, dal, wheat, that means grains. Then sugar, fruits,

vegetables, milk products. These foods are in the goodness. Similarly there

are foods, very chili, very hot, these are in the passion. And similarly in

ignorance also, there are many foods, stale food, meat, these are in the

ignorance.