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Cow Killing (Gou hatya) itself is considered a big crime in Vedic Dharama. Eating cow meat is out of question. This serial needs to be stopped/edited, it is potraying very wrong ideas about Rishis and Hinduism. After all the look at the prominent people directing the serial (not actors, production team). They are muslims.

2007-02-18 04:16:42 · answer #1 · answered by Rajiv N 1 · 0 0

Well, I haven't seen the Ravana serial but sacrifices are not unheard of in our folklores.

To discuss all aspect of animal slaughter we need to look at a lot more aspects than just the caste systems. This discussion can take a lot of turns and be debatable as well so I'll just keep it short n simple.

Even today, in some places they still perform cow slaughter.

Though this ritual was respected and performed more by the Kshatriyas, but like you know all rituals need pandits (Brahmins to be present) to perform the ritual, so you can say that Brahmins too were a part of it.

Then it depends on a lot of things too. We do hear that the Rakshasas too performed animal sacrifices. And rakshasas were also the Brahmins (take Ravana for example).

As a matter of fact, There are even references of Beef eating too in our Vedas though the reference has not been made in a very straight away manner.

Below is an except from one of the scholars studying Hinduism:
"In a previous post, I wrote that I do not know of beef eating references
in the Vedas, and I gave some references from the Manusamhita. I maintain
such a position since I do not know the guhA-nihita meanings of the
RigVedic verses.

Investigating further, I came across a bunch of references in the RigVeda
that talk about animal slaughter, at least they appear to be. I strongly
believe that unless the symbolism used in the Vedas are kept in mind, the
verses do not give straight, even uniform meaning. However, I read that
scholars refer to several verses to support the animal eating practices.
I am not able to judge either the verses or the merits of the translations,
but here are some of these references:

Bull (vrisha) meat eating (1, 164.43, 10.86.13, 14), buffalo meat eating
(5.29.8) , goat meat eating (1.162.3) etc. appear to be part of socially
accepted practices in the straight meaning of these verses.

I would like to draw your special attention to one particular verse that
will illustrate the difficulty I referred to, but luckily, we have Sri
Aurobindo helping us out here:

asya shreshThA subhagasya samdug devasya chitratamA marteshu.
shuchi ghritam na taptamadhyAnyAyAH spArhA devasya manhaneva dhenoH. 4.1.16

The literal meaning of this verse is:

Most glorious is the vision of this Godhead, most richly bright in
mortals: as if the pure and warm butter of the milch-cow that can not be
slain, her desirable gift is the vision of the Godhead. (Hymns to the
mystic fire - Sri Aurobindo). Sri Aurobindo explains what this reference
to the cow really means:

"Here the connection between Fire and Ray-cow and Aditi comes out: so
also the psychological nature of the clarified butter and its connection
with the vision of the Sun.

Who is this cow that "can not be slain" if not the cow aditi - the
Infinite Mother - the supreme Divine consciousness creative of the
cosmos, of the gods and the demons, of men and of all that is?"

This passage may perhaps be difficult to follow if you are not familiar
with Sri Aurobindo's style of writing, and his use of words. This is a
very important verse politically, since it supposedly is the one RigVedic
verse that suggests cows are not to be killed by men. It is obviously a
misrepresentation.

I would not be so presumptuous to try to explain better than Sri
Aurobindo, but I could add a few notes on word use. The Divine Mother is
the Shakti personality of God, the Brahma-yoni or Mahad-Brahma (SBG),
with which the creation was created. By psychological, Sri Aurobindo
refers to psyche = spirit meaning, therefore, psychological is spiritual.
"

2007-02-15 19:57:17 · answer #2 · answered by downed.angel 2 · 0 0

According to Ravan serial they show brhamins was performed cow slaughter. it was over filmy acctualy they used to perform slaughter of bulls which was older and can't produce cow babies.

2007-02-15 19:50:33 · answer #3 · answered by Sunny 2 · 0 0

i dont think so bcoz bramins are vegeterians and they would never do smthin so mean to an animal that we indians take as a mother!

2007-02-15 19:48:26 · answer #4 · answered by cookiecracker 2 · 0 0

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