Fw: meat eating & spirituality

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Ron &Keli Conroy <chaitanya

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Wednesday, April 05, 2000 3:41 AM

meat eating & spirituality

 

 

> Dear Laksmi N Gupta;

> Namaste ---

> Lord Krsna & Lord Ramachandra are ultimately the same person.. They

bare

> Bagavan,the Supreme Personality of Godhead.. In the Bagavad Gita Lord

Krsna

> says that He does descend Himself from time to time in order to deliver

the

> pious,& anialate the miscreants...He has descdended recently n the forms

of

> Lord Lord Krsna,Lord Budha,&Lord Chaitanya...All within this Kali Yuga

which

> began after the departure of Lord Krsna some 5000 years ago..reference is

> Srimad Bagavatam...Lord Ramachandra ,appeared in a previous yga when old

> animals could be sacraficed in the fire jajna,& they would come out reborn

> or new again..This power is not present now among humans..

> Lord Krsna in His song of God,(Bagavad Gita), says that if one offers

to

> Him,a leaf,fruit,flower,or water,He will acept it...Any meat,fish,or egg,

is

> not mentioned by Him,although in times of emergency rules are

different..As

> yet in NA emergency is not upon us..Lord Budha descended specifically to

> stop animal killing in the phony name of sacrafice...He promoted ahimsa or

> non violence..

> When you cite others who ate meat,they were incorrect in their

> behaviour..

> A vaisnav or a devotee of Lord Krsna does not eat meat...because Lord

Krsna

> does not ask for it..In other words He does not acept it..So if our

standard

> is the bagavad Gita or the words of Krsna then meat eating is not

> permitted..Personally not only do i not miss it but i find it repulsive to

> think of eating flesh of which my own body is made..It smells horible ..

But

> different tastes for different folks is there..So are the three modes

> satva,rajas,tamas...According to our minds & senses ,at the time of

death,we

> take another birth..Animal,human,or heavenly,unless we are fully liberated

&

> ready to enter vaikuntha,the spiritual world from where we have fallen..

> your freind & servant

> Satyahit das..

>