Dear Mr Sekar,I may add various drums played which use skin of oxenGopalakrishnan
Yahoo Mail: Search, organise, conquer On Tue, 7 May 2024 at 10:55, Narayanaswamy Sekar<[email protected]> wrote: Thanks Sir.True. I am not sure whether you restrict your topic only to animal sacrifices or going beyond, eating non veg. Why animal sacrifice, even offering things like money, gold, and other material things with prayers saying " if you (God) do this, I will you give you this" have been frowned upon by the knowledgeable. In fact even to ask Him for something is considered bad as it assumes He does not know what to give and what not. But being ordinary human beings we can't rise to those levels. We all are not Gnanis but are ordinary humans, with all its limitations. But we can refrain from practices like animal sacrifices easily. But then, some sects will say it is their custom and practice. They may criticize some of our practices. We have a Puranic incident in Tamizh Puranams which says Kannappa Nayanar ( when he was a chieftain) offered meat (and other things and acts which we will consider blasphemous) and God Shiva accepted them. But then, he offered them out of PURE BHAKTHI expecting nothing in return. That form of Bhakthi was and is exceptional and not possible for all. We have read in the Mahabharatha that before the war starts there is this practice of giving " Kala Pali" meaning animal or human sacrifice - praying for success. In the Kurukshetra war, Eravan, son of Bhima was offered as a sacrifice. Doing one's duty as an obligation and leaving the results to Him (B G) is not possible for all of us. But what I find disturbing is that we offer silk sarees to our Gods when we know how silk is made - by putting scores of silk worms into boiling water to extract the threads. Kanchi Maha Swamigal advised us not to use silk. In my opinion, offering silk sarees also is a form of animal sacrifice. In my opinion, Leather goods made of dead animals is ok but to deliberately kill them for our wants is not good. But we don't know whether the leather goods we buy, like shoes, belts etc are made of naturally dead animals or are killed to make them. In conclusion I surmise it is safe to say "What is sauce for the Goose NEED NOT NECESSARILY BE sauce for the Gander". N Sekar On Tue, May 7, 2024, 8:37 AM Markendeya Yeddanapudi <[email protected]> wrote: No animal sacrifices another animal to get benefit from God.But the rotten human sacrifices often after terrible torture animals by the dozens or even hundreds.He wants to impress God with this horrible cruelty.The Jews too are no exception to this.YM -- Mar -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/CACDCHCLQ7tR95NbWz9ZU53GGUFmFrJMYyVEtZ6%2BBOWM5q5EcwA%40mail.gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/CABC81ZfX8NSkO9N2x5MAA1pSBWeQUASxZ3z0ni6s6u3Zx0%3DSSg%40mail.gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/1547143299.4865251.1715060460355%40mail.yahoo.com.
