... that some Sharma has gone on hunger-strike to stop the sacrifices at Kalighat. Tagore supports him. Of course, I know. But he objects to animal sacrifice; why does he make a goat-offering of himself to Kali? Is human sacrifice better than animal sacrifice? The argument is: what does the loss of one life matter if by it other lives can be saved? I know the South African saying 'How glorious ...
... concerned with human beings, the animal creation and the world of plants, too, were equally fortunate in coming into close touch with her living presence. The Veda speaks of the animal sacrifice; the Mother has also done animal sacrifice, but in a novel sense, by helping them forward on their upward way with a touch of her consciousness. She took a few cats as representatives of the animal world. She said ...
... past; the Avatars still come; revelation still continues.... To recreate Manu entire in modern society is to ask Ganges to flow back to the Himalayas. Manu is no doubt national, but so is the animal sacrifice and the burnt offering. Because a thing is national of the past, it need not follow that it must be national of the future. It is stupid not to recognise altered conditions.... To all things there ...
... really consulting your own opinions, preferences or interests. To recreate Manu entire in modern society is to ask Ganges to flow back to the Himalayas. Manu is no doubt national, but so is the animal sacrifice and the burnt offering. Because a thing is national of the past, it need not follow that it must be national of the future. It is stupid not to recognise altered conditions. We have similar ...
... Heraclitus, developed the cult of the reason and left the remnants of the old occult religion to become a solemn superstition and a conventional pomp. Doubly interesting is his condemnation of animal sacrifice; it is, he says, a vain attempt at purification by defilement of oneself with blood, as if we were to cleanse mud-stained feet with mud. Here we see the same trend of revolt against an ancient ...
... showed a special interest in cats. Not only has she been concerned with human beings, but the animal creation and the life of plants too have shared in her direct touch. The Veda speaks of the animal sacrifice, but the Mother has performed her consecration of animals in a very novel sense; she has helped them forward in their upward march with a touch of her Consciousness. She took a few cats as ...
... were modern enough in language and simple enough in style to be popular, the Puranas. Moreover, the conception of Veda popularised by Buddhism, Page 168 a Scripture of ritual and of animal sacrifice, persisted in the popular mind even after the decline of Buddhism and the revival of great philosophies ostensibly based on Vedic authority. It was under the dominance of this ritualistic conception ...
... into your hands I commit my spirit (Luke 23:46). — The Temple and Ark of the Covenant The Temple in Jerusalem was the central place of Jewish worship in ancient times, and included animal sacrifice. It was primarily built to house the Ark of the Covenant. The Ark was a cabinet that contained the original tablets on which the Torah was inscribed. The tablets have been lost to history. There ...
... cats. Not only has she been concerned with human beings, but the animal creation and the life of plants too have shared in Page 496 her direct touch. The Veda speaks of the animal sacrifice, but the Mother has performed her consecration of animals in a very novel sense; she has helped them forward in their upward march with a touch of her Consciousness. She took a few cats as re ...
... Mahaashtami and Vijayadashami are a marvellous synthesis of power and beauty and the Mother assumes an unusual form on these days. On Mahaashtami the Mother battles fiercely with the Asuras. The animal sacrifice on this day is symbolic of the offering of one’s lower nature at the Mother’s Feet: laying one’s egoism, pettiness, baseness at the Mother’s Feet is the inner meaning of Durga-puja. Sri Aurobindo ...
... impersonations in the course of his progress in the inner life of the litanist-Rishi. As Kapali Sastry has pointed out: While the Agni hymns are used in the ritual as a preliminary to the animal sacrifice, its significance in the inner life of the Rishi is quite clear in that it invokes the help and presence of the Gods whose advent is vouchsafed to the Rishi by the progressive unfoldment of the ...
... into a premature and immature activity of the higher intellectual faculties. A worship of the personified Sun, Moon, Fire, Wind, Dawn, Sky and other natural phenomena by means of a system of animal sacrifices, this is the Veda; high religious thinking & profound Monistic ideas forcibly derived from Vedic Nature-worship marred by the crudest notions about physics, psychology, cosmology and material... age of the recovered Veda. What then are these savage races, these epochs of barbarism, these Animistic, Totemistic, Naturalistic and superstitious beliefs, these mythologies, these propitiatory sacrifices, these crude conditions of society? Partly, the Hindu theory would say, the ignorant & fragmentary survival of defaced & disintegrated beliefs & customs, originally deeper, simpler, truer than the... Kingship. The Vishnu Purana tells us, conformably with this idea, that Vishnu in the Satya incarnates as Yajna, that is to say as the divine Master in man to whom men offer up all their actions as a sacrifice, reserving nothing for an egoistic satisfaction, but in the Treta he descends [as] the Chakravarti Raja, the King & standing forward as sustainer of society's righteousness, its sword of justice & ...
... hunting for sport on the one hand and, on the other, animal sacrifices to gods? I find the latter gruesome and degrading, the former exciting but heartless. Then there is the question of vivisection. Darwin, the most gentle of men who would not deliberately hurt a fly, is on record as declaring that one who objects to experiments on living animals for medical research can never be a true friend of humanity... ordinary child has a delightful innocence, but it has too an amount of ignorance which is akin to the mind of the animals. What makes it worse than they is that the normal child often takes pleasure in killing creatures like cockroaches or even less pestiferous insects and animals. Thus tearing apart the wings of a moth with great glee is very common. Sympathetic identification with one's victim... to Darwinism - and preaches vegetarianism to us. The other school points out our canine teeth as Nature's signal that we are historically meat-eaters. There is also the ingenious argument that all animals that drink by licking up fluids with their tongues - dogs as well as lions, for instance - are meat-eaters, whereas those that drink with their mouths - for example, horses and anthropoids - are v ...
... Vedic Rishis as the method of sacrifice or yajna. By sacrifice was not meant the sacrifice of animals but sacrifice of psychological limitations. Sacrifice often indicates some kind of painful abdication or renunciation; and we are often told that one should sacrifice one's attachments, even though that may prove to be painful. But this idea of painful sacrifice is only valid at lower levels... offer not only one's attachments but all that one is and one has. And the resultant is not pain but joy and ever-increasing joy. All action, Vedic seers declared, which is done in the spirit of sacrifice or yajna is Right Action or Karma. (c) Method of Dedicated offering of the body, life and mind to the practice of ideals: This would mean a firm resolution to dedicate one's life... can be practised and applied; it can be verified and tested. Dharma is the inner spirit of commitment to abide by the law of life and development. Karma is connected with inner spirit of sacrifice and self-giving. Every action that is involved in inner renunciation of the sense of possession and attachment can rightly be called Karma or right action. The greatest fear of human beings ...
... God ( Brahman ), as in Christianity and Islam; not considered to be fundamental were the Vedas, avatarhood, karma and reincarnation. The excrescences were the thousands of idols, pujas, sacrifices – animal sacrifices were still the common practice – ceremonies and pilgrimages. They condemned on humanitarian grounds widow burning ( sati ), prohibition for widows of the right to remarry, child marriages... Mother.) Part of the inspiration behind this pamphlet was Bankim Chatterjee’s Anandamath (Monastery of Joy), a famous novel about an order of monks who were to undertake military operations and sacrifice their lives for the freedom of their country. Bhawani Mandir , with its veneration of the Great Mother and of the Mother-Country as one of her incarnations, is a very forceful piece of writing which ...
... Kuvala-yāpīda at the gate of the theatre, and induce the elephant to destroy my enemies. 26. Let a bow-worship be ceremonially inaugurated on the fourteenth lunar day sacred to Śiva, and let animals be sacrificed in honour of Pasupati, the ready bestower of boons. Kamsa commissioning Akrūra (27-40) 27. Karhsa, well versed in the methods of achieving his personal ends, next called Akrura... in reality was the Supreme Brahman, and the worshipful Lord Mahāvisnu incarnated. He alone has manifested as sacrifice with all its parts — the time, place, sacrificial offerings, Mantras, practices, sacrificing priests, sacrificial fire, deities, master of sacrifice and fruits of the sacrifice. 12. As they neither assented nor refused but only kept quiet, as If they had not heard, the Gopas returned... constitutes all the parts of Yajna — its location, time, materials for offering, Page 82 Mantra, Tantra, sacrificial priests, sacrificial fires, deities, master of sacrifice, the whole sacrifice and the fruits of sacrifice. He is verily Visnu Himself, the master of all Yogis, born in the clan of the Yadus. We have heard all this, but the dull-witted creatures that we are, we could not recognise ...
... p. 297. 3. Ibid., p. 21. Page 286 own capitals. 1 Hence when we read, "No life should here be immolated as a sacrifice; nor should any samāja be held", 2 the natural notion is that "here" which goes with both animal-sacrificing and samāja -holding refers to Aśoka's own capital Pātaliputra. In the Rūpnāth Minor Rock Edict, we have the phrase: "Have this matter... ārambha. In fact, when this edict at its very start speaks of slaughtering and sacrificing, it employs two distinct words in all the versions, words formed from ārabh on the one hand and on the other from hotavya (="to be offered or sacrificed") (Monier-Williams, p. 1301). Thus a word unassociated in itself with sacrifice seems deliberately employed because a special one for the other idea is brought... which Dupont-Sommer 3 notes: while the Greek version states in general the king's abstention from slaughter of animals, the Aramaic specifies the killing of only "a few" animals for the king's sake and is thereby almost exactly in accord with the datum of R.E. I that only three animals instead of many were killed daily for the king's curries at the time of the inscription. Such a direct and intimate ...
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