[Advaita-l] Vegetarianism

[Vaidya Sundaram]

Perhaps thru omission, but i have not seen anyone on this list point to the dharma vyaada discussions from the mahaabhaarata for an exposition why even eating plants is sinful in certain cases and why even killing of animals for food can be pious in other cases. Interested people can find ample references to the original and the translations online - beware of incorrect translations though ...

Bhava shankara desikame sharanm.
Vaidya.


On Apr 18, 2012, at 9:45 PM, Sunil Bhattacharjya <sunil_bhattacharjya at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Dear friends,
> 
> 
> Even in the yajnas the offering of meat was introduced only  by the hypocrites (obviously to get a license for eating meat in a round-about way) as stated by Bhishma in the Mahabharata. Of course in the Pitrikarya the offer of meat was sanctioned.
> 
> Regards,
> Sunil KB
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Venkatesh Murthy वेङ्कटेशः <vmurthy36 at gmail.com>
> To: A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> 
> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 7:26 AM
> Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] Vegetarianism
> 
> Namaste
> 
> Brahmins were probably meat eaters in olden days. But there is strong
> prohibition of cow meat in Smrutis and Sruti also. The Sruti has
> called the cow as Aghnya. This says Brahmins were eating other animal
> meat but not cow meat in Kali Yuga. But nowadays even other meat is
> contaminated because of polluted environment an polluted food eaten by
> the animal. For this reason also and health reasons like high
> cholesterol and fat the Brahmins must not eat any meat now. Only
> exceptions may be in Yajnas. But even in Yajnas  Brahmins will take a
> minute quantity and swallow it without touching it with the tongue.
> 
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 6:47 AM, V Subrahmanian
> <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2012/4/18 श्रीमल्ललितालालितः <lalitaalaalitah at lalitaalaalitah.com>
>> 
>>> *श्रीमल्ललितालालितः <http://www.lalitaalaalitah.com/>
>>> lalitAlAlitaH <http://about.me/lalitaalaalitah/bio>*
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>> 
>>> I just said that eating meat has basis in smR^iti-s and killing animals at
>>> places is supported by both veda-s and smR^iti-s.
>>> 
>> 
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Brahmin_diet
>> 
>> //
>> 
>> From the Vedic age up to the earlier times of the Dharma
>> sutras<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalpa_%28Vedanga%29>,
>> the four varnas <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varna_%28Hinduism%29> had no
>> difference regarding their food and conduct. All varnas had similar food
>> habits, and both vegetarianism and non-vegetarianism were very
>> popular.[1]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Brahmin_diet#cite_note-food-0>
>> 
>> 
>> South Indian Brahmins during the *sutra* period, like those of North India
>> were meat eaters.[7]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Brahmin_diet#cite_note-tamil-6>
>> *Kapilar*(Puṟanāṉūṟu<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pu%E1%B9%9Fan%C4%81%E1%B9%89%C5%AB%E1%B9%9Fu>,
>> poems 113,119), a Brahmin poet in ancient Tamil
>> Country<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangam_period>,
>> says:
>>  “ ..*My hands have become soft because they do know of no harder work than
>> eating rice and meat boiled with tamarind. The sweet smell of its smoke
>> might counteract the smell of the pieces of
>> meat*.[7]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Brahmin_diet#cite_note-tamil-6>
>> ”
>> 
>> 
>>  subrahmanian.v
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