[Advaita-l] Yajna involving animal (header changed to suit the discussion)

[V Subrahmanian]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 8:56 AM, Venkatesh Murthy via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Namaste
>
> North Indian Brahmins like Kashmir Brahmins take meat and Bengali
> Brahmins eat fish. But we cannot say they are committing sin. The
> Sampradaya itself is allowing them to eat meat and fish. But South
> Indian Brahmin cannot use that excuse and eat meat and fish. Because
> it is not in his Sampradaya.
>

Swami Vidyaranya has, in his Jivanmukti viveka, in the Vasanakshaya
prakaranam, mentioned that the South Indians fault the Northerners (brahmins)
for their meat-eating habits and the latter taunt the former for their
practice of girls marrying their maternal uncles and so on. So there is
this 'vasana' to hold one's own practices as high and fault  those of
others as censurable.  Such vasana according to the author  is not
conducive to spirituality.



>
>
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 12:11 AM, Venkata sriram P via Advaita-l
> <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
> > //
> > meat eating was permitted in  brAhmaNa community not just as hOma shesha
> or prasAda but recommended for regular food intake.
> > //
> >
> > The sampradaya got degraded and corrupted to regular food intake. Such a
> yAga is परिसंख्या विधि
> > and such an act shows अभिनिवेश (attachment) towards मांसभक्षण.
> >
> > The Bhagavata says:
> >
> > ते मे मतमविज्ञाय परोक्षं विषयात्मकाः ।
> > हिंसायां यदि रागः स्याद यज्ञ एव न चोदना ॥ (भागवत ११।२१।२६-३०)
> >
> > Translation:
> >
> > If one cannot avoid pashu-himsa and mamsa-bhakshana and is attached to
> it,
> > then he may do so in yajna.  They are ignorant of My परोक्ष अभिप्रायः
> (My intended opinion)
> > about the dharma which is परिसंख्या and not अपूर्व .
> >
> > regs,
> > sriram
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