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Re: Why can't Hindus eat beef?
In article <4g0poc$9fq@babbage.ece.uc.edu>,
vijia@pop.jaring.my (Singam) wrote:
>But if a Hindu chooses to eat whatever kind of meat, I don't really
>think he needs to avoid beef in particular. If he wants to avoid
beef,
>he should look into avoiding all kinds of meat.
Beef should be avoided because cows give mankind milk. Therefore, they
are considered to be one of man's seven natural mothers, the others
being the biological mother, the nurse, the wife of the brahmana, wife
of the spiritual master, wife of the King, and Mother Earth.
It is indeed contemptible to slaughter an animal and consume its flesh
for sense gratification. But it is even more contemptible to do this
to the cow, which so kindly provides us with the saatvik beverage of
milk which nourishes us and develops brain tissue.
regards,
-- HKS
