Some Interesting Questions

Why should a Hindu not eat beef? Of course, Hindus see 33 crore Gods in it.
For that matter, they see God in all entities of the world. Weren't it
we who said, "Eeshavasya midam sarvam..."? )

To go to the details of it we may have to go into the Vedic Vishwa. Basically vedas
refer "Gou" as animal and as well as "Indriya"(senses). The word "Gou" over the
period of time became "Cow" in English(Apabhransh).

In Vedic peroid some yajnas were practiced

• AshwaMedh
• GouMedh
• AjaMedh

The real meaning of each of these word Vedic people knew. Over the period
they(words) lost meanings and people considered

Ashwamedh = to sacrifice Ashwa(Ghoda)

GouMedh = to sacrifice Gou(Gaya)
AjaMedh = to sacrifice Aja(Bakara)

. This wrong interpretations of these words resulted in heavy sacrifices of Gou

and Aja(Bakara). Gou was and is social animal with lots of benifits. People
knew it and so to stop unnecessary killings of animal like Gou it was made
forbidden in KaliYuga.

'Agnihotram gavalambam sanyasam palpaitrukam|

Deverachha sutoptathikaloupanchavivarjayet'|

Arthat:

'Kaliyug main panch(5) karma karane ke liye nishedh hain

agnihotra
 Gavalamban(GouMedh)
 Sanyas
 palapaitruk yane mans pinda dekar shradha karana
aur
 devar se santati karava lena'

That is how people in KaliYuga stopped GouMedh and Hindus who follow
Vedic principle do not eat beef(Gou).

GouMeah
 Actually in Vedic period Gou means Indriya most of the times. How otherwise
you justify a word GouSwami? Does that mean Nandi ya Bail ya Hela ya
Reda? Definitely not. We mean a Rishi or a saintly person who has conquered
his senses.So when Gou means Indriaya Vedic people used to perform
GouMedh that is IndriyaMedh that is IndriaNighriya. They used to direct
Indriya rather than guided by them. Over the period this became difficult to
implement and people considered it to be Gaya or Beef.

AshwaMedh

It also had similar problems. Ashwa is A+Shwa 'A' means absence and
'Shwa' means breathing. So where Absence of Berathing is achieved and only
Shusmuna nadi works that state is called as Ashwa. So we have to kill that
state(avasta). Interestingly,only Kshatriyas were allowed to perform
AshwaMedh. Brahamans were not allowed. Bramhan means Ashwa avasta.
A Kshatriya is not supposed to go to Ashwa avastha because he must look
after his subjets. That is why AshwaMedh was performed by Prabhu
RamChandra and Yudhistir. It is difficult to understand that Prabhu
Ramchandra can kill a innocent Ghoda for his peace of
mind(ManahaShanti).It was to remember that being Kshtriya they have to
have Shawas(Nitya Karma). This was also misinterpreted in the post vedic
kala and people started killings Ghoda.

Ajamedh

AjaMedh is A+ja(That has not taken birth) so AjaMedh means kill that has
not taken bitrh! Was that Abortion? Aja means Bramhavasta so not to
indulge in Bramahavsta is what AjaMedh means. Aja avastha means
Brhama avastha ko samasaman kar jo avastha utpana ho ti hain use
Sama+Aja Samaj kahate hain. So AjaMedh means Samaj ka uddhar.

So Vedic people were

• AshawaMedhi(Jagrut)
• GouMedhi(IndriyaNighra)
• AjaMedhi(Samajsheel).

Over the period people took altogether diffrent and wrong interpretations and
hence question like Beef eating comes up. So when entire world was
practicising Vedic sanskruti some of them took

• GouMedh as Gou killings(Chirstains,Muslims)

• some of them took it as GouSwami,GouWardhan,GouPal(Hindu)
• Some of them took as Strong Indria Nirodh (Jain).

By no means Vedas allowed animal scarifiecs. So it is not only Gou but any
animal sacrifices are not allowed.

Is vegetarianism a Hindu concept.?

 Vegetarianism and Non-Vegetarianism are not Hindu(Vedic) concept.
It is there that animal sacrifices were not allowed but in the Vedic litrature it
is not mentioned that Mansahar(Non-Veg) is not allowed. There was actually
no problem with the animal eatings till Ramayan and MahaBharat. There
are sevral instances of Ram either eating or stop eating Mansahar. It may
sound contradictory to what we said above but let us explain.

We all know Four Vernas.It was a best example of Mankind Classification. A

person would be classified as to be belonging to one of the Verna based on
the attributes(Guna) and not the family.

• Kshatriya is Kshatrap ya Warman. This means that anyone who is

maintaining his physical strength to reduce mind detractors. Naturally, that
person has to indulge in wordly activities. He has to reduce(Warman)
chanchal vrutii so it is obvious for eating habits as well. There is no good
reason to belive that it was prohibited in the vedic society to have Mansahar.

Veg better than Non-Veg?

Vedic society did not bother about this. Actually, this better & bad came
because of Buddhism and Jainism in post Vedic period. Buddha preached
extreme non-voilence. This question is discussed because of Buddhas impact
in society.

There are several instances of Mansahar being offered to deities in Rigveda.

Why the bramhins(the priest class) are the only ones who are
shunned from non-vegetarianism while others are allowed.?. Is it that
hindusim preaches non violence vegeterianism on one hand and
expects only one section of it to follow.?. How can you say then hindu
values can be universally applied.

Here again querist mis-interpreted Brahmins as Priest Class. Who is

Brahaman? "Braham Janati Brahaman" who knows Brahama(Ultimate
Knowledge) is Brahaman. Ved describe Brahaman as "Sharman"
Sharam+Ann .Sharam means Teer (Arrow) and Ann means
vibration(Spandan). "Jo Sadhak appne Sharir Kshtra dwara sadhana
prayas kar tatvaruup avastha ko cheerate huai jata hain aur tatva ko
prapta karta hain use Sharman kahatain hain". In-short Brahman is in
tandem with Brahma(Supreme Knowledge). That person who is
tandem with Brahama must be GouSwami(Whose all Indriyas are
under his control) so no Mansahar or Madira.

Now the last question

How can you say then Hindu values can be universally applied.

What are Hindu values? What we call Hindu is Vedic person;Who belives in
Vedas(or their derivations) is today called as Hindu courtesy Muslims. What is
Vedic Sanskruti? Ved means Gyan or Knowledge and Vedic means Gyani. So
Vedic Sanskruti is culture of Gyanis. There is no concept of religion in
 Vedic time. So Shashtra and Vigyan are two pilliers of Vedic Vishwa. One
who wants to be Vedic will be classified as

• Brahaman
• Kshatria
• Vysha
• Shrudra. These are four stages of the student of vedic society depending
attributes(Guna) one has.Ultimate state and hence desirable is the Brahaman
state the meaning of which we see earlier. So making entire world Brahaman
is the basic principle of Vedas. This is what is the Vedic values that is Hindu
Values.

Dont you read Universality in it? No other Dharma rests on such a great
principle. We Hindus are supposed to make entire world Brahama- maya. So
be very clear about our roots and present true picture of Vedic (Hindu)
society and teachings. Remember you should to tell what Anand we get in
Brahma!!!