Guest guest Posted January 6, 2004 Report Share Posted January 6, 2004 > Dear Dhananjya and Pratap, it is also interesting to consider that Sri Ramakrishna couldn't walk on grass because he was hurting life -- and that with every breath we kill hundreds (thousands?) of microbes. Edith > Message: 4 > Thu, 01 Jan 2004 22:28:17 -0000 > " narenpm " <narenpm > Re: Material men and Spiritualism > > Dear Dhananjya, > > Who am I to pardon your immature thoughts? First of all I don't > even have right to decide whether your thought (below) are mature or > immature. In fact from my original email you might have noticed > that I'm myself struggling to find out as to who has right to decide > what's 'dharma' and what's 'adharma'. > > Who are we to decide what species should live or not live? Are we > the ones who decided that the dinosaurs should cease to exist > millions of years back? Are we the ones who created carnivorous > animals, whose own species will be extinguished if they don't eat > other animals? For every fish that human beings catch from ocean to > eat there are million fish being eaten by larger fish or dying in > the ocean. We (human beings) might not know even one percent of the > total number of species that God has created or creating and > destroying everyday. > > And in that case why be so sympathetic to animals alone. Dr. > Jagdish Chandra Bose and other scientists proved that plants have > life too. They too feel the pain when they are cut or killed. Poor > plants they can't run away to save their lives or shout that would > be audible to us, so should we consider that eating vegetables is no > or lesser crime then eating animal flesh? > > I would be very happy if you or anybody could help me understand as > to how eating vegetable is any better than eating flesh. Plants to > me are like mentally retarded human beings to me that cannot shout > or run away for life when we cut them to fill our stomach. So does > that mean that attacking `mentally retarded people' is not a sin? > If it makes any sense then why should we eat vegetable in the first > place? Don't they have right to be left alone as is where is? > > Best regards, > Pradip > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 7, 2004 Report Share Posted January 7, 2004 --- Michael Bowes <rmichaelbowes wrote: > Tue, 6 Jan 2004 10:26:25 -0800 (PST) > Michael Bowes <rmichaelbowes > Re: [sri Ramakrishna] Digest Number 1675 > Ramakrishna > > Dear Edith, > > But there is a story in the Gospel of Sri > Ramakrishna > where one of the devotees had some question or doubt > about killing and he wanted to ask Thakur about > whether it was OK to kill insects. When the devotee > arrived at Thakur's room the Master was engaged in > killing the bed bugs that had infested his bedding. > The devotee understood from the incident that Sri > Ramakrishna approved of killing when necessary. > > Love, > > michael > > --- Edith Tipple <edtipple wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > Dear Dhananjya and Pratap, it is also interesting > to > > consider that Sri > > Ramakrishna couldn't walk on grass because he was > > hurting life -- and that with > > every breath we kill hundreds (thousands?) of > > microbes. > > Edith SNIP Hotjobs: Enter the " Signing Bonus " Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes./signingbonus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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