VAD will include meateaters?

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> > That is true. But the vad that accomodates meat-eaters will be the

> > outgrowth of the daiva vad which forbids the same--is that correct?

>

> As far as I remember Prabhupada said it is all right they eat meat, except

> from the cow. Preferably from goat or such animal. The cow they can also

> eat, when it died from old age.

 

One doesn't even have to be classified as a "meat-eater" in

order to eat meat, occasionally. Ksatriyas have the allowance

to eat the meat, or to drink liqueur, or to gamble, or to have

sex outside of strict "for procreation only" rule. Sudras are

normally understood to be not able to follow the "4 regs" as

we know them from Prabhupada. These things are there in VAD.

Some our "Bhagavatam ponders" would "clean out" even Pandavas

from that daiva VAD of theirs.

 

Anyway, what do we have really to discuss about VAD including

these things when even doing occasionally some bodily exercises is

considered as not-instructed/prohibited activity in the minds of

some of our VAD "advocators". Even if you want to put it "We,

devotees, don't waste time with it", it's still an absurd approach

to establishing VAD, since it is the question of the very first

failure in recognizing that it's indeed _we_, ISCKONiates, who are

to get sorted, integrated and upgraded into some sane VAD system.

We keep advocating VAD and in the same time we keep pretending

to ourselves and everybody how we are above everything that is

not "direct devotional service" to Lord, not a mahabhagavata

life style.

 

It's those small (or maybe big) mind-bubbles of ours that we dwell

in, that makes us in the eyes of the world to be some cult fellows

only. You know, if we are getting stuck over even such trivial

aspects of people's lives like stretching our muscles in some

"non-Krsnaloka" way, we are indeed a big laughing stock for the

world that we attempt to take over with our "superior" intelligence

and knowledge and "Vedic" culture.

(I guess, I am now running the risk of being shoot on as someone

who is defending/giving priority to "stretching the muscles" over

establishing Vedic culture. Sure.)

 

 

- Mahanidhi das