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| Mar 01, 2007 11:21 am |
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Why are the silkworms not? We are ready to wear and make our gods wear silk taken by killing silkworms and taking their cocoons but do not treat silkworms venerable. Why?
~ Hinduism is the only religion that advice to see god in each and everything. Only in this you can find male god equivalent to female god like shiva & sakthi, Visnu & Lakshmi, Brahma & Saraswathi etc. In all other religions it is male god like Jesus, Allah, Buddha etc. This is the only religion in which animals; birds, insects have been given some part in our scriptures. Like bee creating hole and travels across the thigh of Karna in Mahabhratha. If god in pillars & pieces (thnunilum iruppan, thrumbilum iruppan) why not in silkworms? The very high funda of SD is to see every living creature as soul.
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We are ready to give honey to our gods as well as the source, the flower, and yet push the bees out of their home to extract the honey. Why?
~ God accepts the hard work done by bee and when the honey is offered to lord the life of bee is fulfilled.
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We are ready to kill the rats and yet treat one of its cousins as a transport to one of the gods. Why?
~ Why rat alone, do we not kill snake (lord Shiva is always represented with Snake) if it comes to our house? There is different set of rules for different peoples in Hinduism. When King Janameyan killed thousands of snakes during Yagam it was not considered as sin whereas when an andhnar killed one snake he was punished. So, in order to protect our food not getting poisoned it is nothing wrong to kill rats. This is the practicality of Hinduism and that is the reason lord shiva carries thrisul even it is said that 'Anbe Sivam'.
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In fact those who do the cross thread ceremony would see that the thread worn upon initiation has a Tiger skin. And yet tiger is put at par as a transport. Why?
~ Lord shiva sits in tiger skin in meditation pose. In those days when kings kills tiger in forest to protect their country people, they would process the tiger skin and offer it to some sages who does penance. Even today when we do japam we use 'Tharpa Pai'. This is to get full benefit of meditation; otherwise the floor/land would attract all the benefit due to gravitational force and earth it.
Tiger is not symbolised at par as a transport. It showed the courageous act of lord Manikanda to offer Tiger milk to king to recover from stomach pain.
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Fish, Matsya as we know from the avatAr, was not forbidden from being a food for the common man. We know for sure from the stories of Ramayana, that there were people who at fish and gave that to Rama too.
~ Srimad Bhagavadam does not advise common man to eat fish or any other animals. Now Rama accepting fish from Gugan - This incident also proves that Ramayana is not a story. If it is a story this part would have not at all brought into picture. However, Rama accepted fish as token of love and not desire to eat fish.
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