cow slaughter Why do You try to correlate the eternal Hindu religion (Sanaatana Dharma) with others who eat the flesh of a cow?...

[dattaswami]

Why do You try to correlate the eternal Hindu religion (Sanaatana Dharma) with others who eat the flesh of a cow?

[Reply to a question by Shri Bhavesh, Chennai] Swami replied: O Learned and Devoted Servants of God! You mean to say that cow-eaters should not be excused, whereas, goat-eaters can be excused! Both cows and goats are soft-natured animals. The real concept is that a soft-natured animal or human being should not be killed. A cow represents all soft-natured animals. When it is said that you should not kill a cow, it means that you should not kill any soft-natured animal or bird. Similarly, when it is said that you should not kill a Brāhmaṇa, it means that you should not kill any soft-natured human being. A Brāhmaṇa, does not mean any person born in the Brahmin caste, but it means a Brāhmaṇa by qualities and deeds. The Brāhmaṇa represents every soft-natured human being. If you reject other religions because their followers eat non-vegetarian food, several Hindus too eat non-vegetarian food. You should not go by your fascination towards the name of any religion. Instead, you should analyze the scripture of any religion, without any bias. Then, you will find that the essence of the scriptures of all religions is one and the same. This is because, the same unimaginable God has ultimately revealed the scriptures of all religions through the medium of different Human Incarnations of God. The same unimaginable God is found mediated in the different human media of the various Incarnations.

Is there a scripture of any religion, which says that God does not exist or that one should commit sin and avoid good deeds? We must find the basic unity in all world religions and through it, we should find the basic unity in the entire humanity. This is essential for achieving world-peace, which alone pleases God to the climax-level. Some say that the Islamic scripture orders Muslims to kill non-Muslims! In that case, how can the same scripture say that a Muslim should help any person in trouble, preach to the person about Islam and then leave the person to choose freely, without any force? Both these statements are mutually contradicting! Hence, we should think about the probability of insertions made by some bad followers in the scriptures of the various religions, in the course of time.

 

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-By Shri Datta Swami
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