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| Mar 01, 2007 3:54 pm |
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Ganesh Ram
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I will offer my side of the story for the other things later. But I was not wrong in saying the Horse was sacrificed.
Like I had said in my earlier post, one can always find an acceptible meaning for an action or an inaction that is being committed.
The reason for sacrificing the Horse, as I have heard elsewhere is this.
But before that, here is my understanding of ashwamedha yAga. The ashwamedha yAgA itself is done to move a king to an emperor status. What does this mean? A king who thinks that he is going to expand his jurisdiction, sends a proxy to all lands. The proxy is the white horse and is followed by a bandwagon of soldiers. Any rival king or anyone who attempts to capture the horse need to fight the soldiers accompanying. When after a year the horse returns back to the starting point, it means that wherever the horse travelled no one opposed its authority and thereby making the king to have occuppied that land.
When the horse returns, the yaga is done and the horse is sacrificed. The reason for this is the now EMPEROR does not want this horse to be captured at any time later.
One can give umpteen explanation in justifying the sacrifice. But what I do not understand is, tose who talk about a creator,kill/sacrifice that which is not created by humans for their personal ambitions.
I never took ISKCON as a religion. If you had seen my prev posts you will know that.
I never even thought of Krishna as an adullter(if there is such a word). In fact other than one or two posts where we did talk in length about his leelas, most of my arguments are based on his role in Mahabaratha. And even there, my point was he had his own misgivings as any other mortal and some portions of Gita when looked differently does not satisfy.
...more to come
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