[Sri Ramakrishna] Sentient beings : practicalities of Advaita Vedanta

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Dera Raga (or is it Rajah?); I am not a learned or realised person so the answer

is from what I feel, and not from research. I think cruelty is what is in your

heart. The purpose of the action. Who is cruel? The lioness who kills the Gazel

to feed its cubs and her family or the man who kills it for a trophy? Bhagwan

Ramchandra, Krishna, Budha, even Shri Ramkrishna were not vegetarian. By the way

Hitler was a staunch vegetarian and was very much against cruelty to animals.

During dinner parties he will narrate the details of how the animals are killed

before they got on the plate in such a graphic way that most of the guests will

lose their appetite for the meat on their plate. Shri Ramkrishna and Swamiji

both said that if you are focused on God it does not matter what you eat,

because its the Same manifesting in meat or vegetable. Remember the story where

a sanyasi was asked to learn from a butcher?

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" Rajah " <rajah

<Ramakrishna >

Saturday, February 16, 2002 3:10 AM

[sri Ramakrishna] Sentient beings : practicalities of Advaita Vedanta

 

 

> Namaste dear Friends,

>

> The following request was posted to another list professing

> to advocate Advaita Vedanta, but so far, we got the Frozen Chosen

> response of total silence on a key question asked by many who are

> trying to understand " Hinduism " in general, and reverence for all life

> in particular:

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> It will be much appreciated if someone (anyone!) on this

> list would care to provide references showing what it is

> we practise with regard to sentient beings - i.e. our respect

> for all created life. In simple terms, how we view cruelty to

> " animals " , how we relate to life, how (and if) we respect it

> as we do each other. Are we all vegetarians, for instance?

>

> Thank you kindly

>

> With esteem

>

> Raga

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