Are dogs man's best friend in Vedic culture as well?

[sreeram]

Are you saying that people do cultivation before Stone Age? At that time humans are eating meat vegetarian concept came after that. Most probably during Vedic culture. I have seen that many veggies feeding their pets only vegetarian foods. But may are feeding meat.

Who is feeding meat to street dogs?. But they are still alive. Definition of karma is deferent from person to person and religion to religion..

[indulekhadasi]

 

Here is a small dog story that happened today at our Ashram in Orissa. Somehow by fate our Ashram ended up with three puppies in 2004. A street dog who would visit the ashram for prasadam had given birth to 6 babies. There was another female dog in the village that had the terrible habit of hunting and eating puppies. She did it repeatedly for a number of years, and in this case our devotees witnessed it because these puppies were born so close to the ashram. Every day the evil dog would sneak up and attack and kill one of the puppies. After three of the puppies had been killed in that manner, the devotees decided to take the remaining three puppies in and protect them so they wouldn't be killed as well. Several times the evil dog still managed to sneak into the ashram and grab one of the puppies by the neck and run off with it, but the construction workers would chase it down and recover the puppy each time before it could be killed. So somehow these three dogs grew up in the ashram eating Jagannatha prasadam each day.

 

Today a very nice thing happened to one of these dogs. Attached is a picture of him taken yesterday (his name was Brindavan). He had stopped eating about 10 days ago. Day by day he became skinnier and he was pretty "sick" in the sense that he hadn't taken food for so many days. Since he wasn't eating food he became weak and would just lie down at his place behind the ashram. He hadn't walked for a few days, and then today was Nityananda's appearance day. So at the temple they were having an abhisheka around noon, with fasting from morning, followed by a feast. The abhisheka started and there was a loud kirtan going on, when suddenly Brindavan stood up, walked across the yard to the door of the ashram and started barking. He hadn't eaten in 10 days and hadn't been walking around at all, but suddenly he was walking and barking. One devotee saw him at the door barking and thought it was odd and she felt she should give him some charanamrita. So she went to the Jagannatha temple and brought charanamrita from the abhisheka. She poured some into his mouth, and he left his body instantly with the kirtan still going on. It is really miraculous that he would leave his body the second he received charanamrita, and on the day of Nityananda's appearance as the kirtan was going on just 30 feet away. He wasn't really sick or old. He was only 4 years old (which in dog years would make him 28). He just stopped eating, so he became thin and weak.

 

He was a fortunate dog. He was born at the ashram and spent his life guarding Lord Jagannatha's temple from thieves. His whole life he only ate Jagannatha prasadam, and in fact he would receive the rajbhog mahaprasadam from the deities plate every day after the noon offering. Funny how that happened, but somehow he was blessed to eat the direct remnants from Lord Jagannatha's plate every day. He fasted for 10 days, and on the day of Lord Nityananda's appearance he took charanamrita from the deities and instantly left his body surrounded by kirtan.

 

We never know who may be a great soul or yogi.

 

Here is a picture of him taken yesterday. His bones are really visible and his skin is hanging loosly over his body. Before he stopped eating 10 days ago he was fat and his skin tight.

 

 

 

 

Wow! All glories!

[13thMonkey]

It even looks like Brindavan has virtical tilak on his forehead. Hare Krsna!!!

[theist]

 

It even looks like Brindavan has virtical tilak on his forehead. Hare Krsna!!!

Sure enough.

 

=:^)

[yogesh]

 

Here is a small dog story that happened today at our Ashram in Orissa. Somehow by fate our Ashram ended up with three puppies in 2004. A street dog who would visit the ashram for prasadam had given birth to 6 babies. There was another female dog in the village that had the terrible habit of hunting and eating puppies. She did it repeatedly for a number of years, and in this case our devotees witnessed it because these puppies were born so close to the ashram. Every day the evil dog would sneak up and attack and kill one of the puppies. After three of the puppies had been killed in that manner, the devotees decided to take the remaining three puppies in and protect them so they wouldn't be killed as well. Several times the evil dog still managed to sneak into the ashram and grab one of the puppies by the neck and run off with it, but the construction workers would chase it down and recover the puppy each time before it could be killed. So somehow these three dogs grew up in the ashram eating Jagannatha prasadam each day.

 

Today a very nice thing happened to one of these dogs. Attached is a picture of him taken yesterday (his name was Brindavan). He had stopped eating about 10 days ago. Day by day he became skinnier and he was pretty "sick" in the sense that he hadn't taken food for so many days. Since he wasn't eating food he became weak and would just lie down at his place behind the ashram. He hadn't walked for a few days, and then today was Nityananda's appearance day. So at the temple they were having an abhisheka around noon, with fasting from morning, followed by a feast. The abhisheka started and there was a loud kirtan going on, when suddenly Brindavan stood up, walked across the yard to the door of the ashram and started barking. He hadn't eaten in 10 days and hadn't been walking around at all, but suddenly he was walking and barking. One devotee saw him at the door barking and thought it was odd and she felt she should give him some charanamrita. So she went to the Jagannatha temple and brought charanamrita from the abhisheka. She poured some into his mouth, and he left his body instantly with the kirtan still going on. It is really miraculous that he would leave his body the second he received charanamrita, and on the day of Nityananda's appearance as the kirtan was going on just 30 feet away. He wasn't really sick or old. He was only 4 years old (which in dog years would make him 28). He just stopped eating, so he became thin and weak.

 

He was a fortunate dog. He was born at the ashram and spent his life guarding Lord Jagannatha's temple from thieves. His whole life he only ate Jagannatha prasadam, and in fact he would receive the rajbhog mahaprasadam from the deities plate every day after the noon offering. Funny how that happened, but somehow he was blessed to eat the direct remnants from Lord Jagannatha's plate every day. He fasted for 10 days, and on the day of Lord Nityananda's appearance he took charanamrita from the deities and instantly left his body surrounded by kirtan.

 

We never know who may be a great soul or yogi.

 

Here is a picture of him taken yesterday. His bones are really visible and his skin is hanging loosly over his body. Before he stopped eating 10 days ago he was fat and his skin tight.

 

 

 

A special soul may be due to unfortunate circumstances given a dogs body but look at the Amazing great fortune mercy that this soul obtained from Lord Jaganath & Lord Nityananda !!! Almost Like Bharat Maharaj

 

The mercy is mind blowing and unfathomable:pray:

 

Jay Brindavan Das,

 

Jay Sri Nityananda Prabhu

 

Jay Jaganath, Baladev & Subhadra

 

And Most Importantly Jay to ALL THOSE DEVOTEES GIVING BRINDAVAN THE OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE THE SHELTER OF THE LORD:pray:

 

HARE Krsna/Krishna

 

Jay Sirla Prabhupada

[krishnadasa]

 

Im sure people had pets before the British came. Thats a very ignorant statement to make. And why aren't we allowed to have pets?

 

There is a famous story of Bharathmaharaja getting attached to Deer and becoming one his next life in Bhagavatam

[LoveroftheBhagavata]

 

When meat eating pets are getting vegetarian food from the very beginning, they become vegetarians.

 

True. I know of several cases where dogs have been turned herbivorous by their veg owners, and the animals don't seem to be doing too bad at all sans flesh in their diet.