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Subject: Why this Ramakrishna- Vivekananda bashing?
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susrala@great-gray.owlnet.rice.edu (H. Krishna Susarla) wrote:
>For example, meat is certainly made up of the Lord's material energy, but
>this is not to say that it is therefore acceptable to consume meat, which
>is what the Ramakrishna types preach. When you get right down to it,
When did Ramakrishna *preach* meat-eating? He only said not to
make a fuss about eating habits when there were far greater faults
present inside us. He himself found it virtually impossible to take meat.
He would sometimes touch it with his tongue, if it was given as prasad,
so as not to "offend Mother". Only a Isckon-ite can twist this to mean
that he *preached* meat-eating.
It is true that Vivekananda ate meat. But I will justify it by saying
V. was after all a Kshatriya: Kshatriyas traditionally eat meat.
Also that provided V. with the necesary Rajas to carry out his social activities
He felt that his countrymen were lost in Tamas, were physically weak and at
that point time required some vitality rather than spiritual counsel. What
religion can you talk to a starving person? I think it was keeping this in
view that he encouraged Tamasic people to get physically healthy first, taking
meat if need be. I think he wrote somewhere that a truly Satvic person
would not be able to take meat.
Why do you Krsihnaites make such a fuss about non-meat eating? You
guys presumably do not eat meat, but you still remain narrow-minded,
sectarian and abusive of others. Going vegeatarian does not sem to have helped
you much. Better get rid of your grosser aspects first, then start preaching
vegetarianism.
Vishwanath
vgr@vuse.vanderbilt.edu
