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http://www.hindunet.org/vegetarian/
Some of my personal thoughts on this topic:
> indifferent to meat or vegetables but vegetarians have a strong
> aversion towards meat.
Yes, this is certainly true of many, if not all vegetarians. However, I
can share with you something that is more interesting. I persuaded some of
me meat-eating friends who were giving me a difficult time about my
vegetarianism to visit an abatoir. It really amazed me to see how
traumatic it turned out to be for them. Most did not complete the tour.
ALL abstained from meat for a period, some for as long as 3 months. These
people are all from families who have been eating meat for generations.
All of them did eventually return to eating meat, but they stopped giving
me a hard time, so something good came out of it.
> Unh, unh, unh! If lower-level things operate mechanically and do not
> incur either merit or sin, then how do they advance in your system to
My understanding is that lower lifeforms, advance to the next higher level
automatically. Take the example of a tiger. It's nature is to kill
brutally, but does not incur sin as a human would. However, during this
life, the soul's desire to kill brutally is removed and then the soul
graduates to a higher lifeform.
The last point that I wish to make is to do with Hindu scriptures.
Everyone's aware of the fact that there are volumes and volumes - Vedas,
Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, etc. I wish to make it clear that I am in no
position to provide an expert treatise on any of these scriptures.
My belief is that these scriptures are recordings of people, places, events
and thoughts, made by people and did not fall out of the sky, completely
written by God. It is for this reason that there are so many
contradictions. So, somewhere in the scriptures it is mentioned Dasratha
was hunting deer, elsewhere the scriptures state clearly that one must not
kill. My conscience makes me add far more importance and weight to the
latter. The fact that Dasratha was hunting deer has absolutely no bearing
on me. Dasratha did that and I don't agree with it, so I won't do it.
Therefore lifestyles, and thoughts, of many sages or kings or ordinary
people discribed in the scriptures do not determine my lifestyle. Yes, a
lot of it do influence my lifestyle, but certainly not each and everything.
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