10-28-2005, 01:58 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-Mudy+Oct 27 2005, 10:20 PM-->QUOTE(Mudy @ Oct 27 2005, 10:20 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Ravi Chaudhary,
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I am not here to try and prove that Beef eating was rampant among the Vedic people, or the later Hindus.
To me, personally, it is a non-issue.
If my ancestors beef, some eons ago, so they did! We do not do so now? Mores change, customs change, beliefs change.
Among the Jats, cow slaughter is taboo, and so is beef eating. Even the rumor can start off a riot.
Swami Dayanand, who is quoted in one of the articles, started the Arya Samaj, and his ideas fitted quite seamlessly into Jat mores that already existed. The Arya Samaj has been in the forefront of stopping cow slaughter, and bringing Muslims back into the fold of Hinduism. Many of their members have paid the price for that with their llives.
E.g. even in 1668, Gokul, when he took the pledge to fight and free the Braj of the oppression of te Muslim moguls, took 5,000 people, attacked the Muslim officials in Mathura, killed them, and stopped cow slaughter in the Temples, and killed the butchers.
For his pains, he was later hacked to death limb by limb.
I am looking at this phenomena, if I may call it that, from a technical historical angle.
There are references to cow/bull eating in the ancient texts. Different people interpret these verses differently.
My point is simply is that even if were proved that beef eating was prevalent in ancient times, something that D N Jha and Co are/were trying to do, let them, what exactly is the big deal?
I am sure our ancient civilization, can handle this storm in a tea cup!
Best regards
Ravi Chaudhary
Read this
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I hope this will enlighten you. Its easy to creat myth and live in mythical world of Macaulay.
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I am not here to try and prove that Beef eating was rampant among the Vedic people, or the later Hindus.
To me, personally, it is a non-issue.
If my ancestors beef, some eons ago, so they did! We do not do so now? Mores change, customs change, beliefs change.
Among the Jats, cow slaughter is taboo, and so is beef eating. Even the rumor can start off a riot.
Swami Dayanand, who is quoted in one of the articles, started the Arya Samaj, and his ideas fitted quite seamlessly into Jat mores that already existed. The Arya Samaj has been in the forefront of stopping cow slaughter, and bringing Muslims back into the fold of Hinduism. Many of their members have paid the price for that with their llives.
E.g. even in 1668, Gokul, when he took the pledge to fight and free the Braj of the oppression of te Muslim moguls, took 5,000 people, attacked the Muslim officials in Mathura, killed them, and stopped cow slaughter in the Temples, and killed the butchers.
For his pains, he was later hacked to death limb by limb.
I am looking at this phenomena, if I may call it that, from a technical historical angle.
There are references to cow/bull eating in the ancient texts. Different people interpret these verses differently.
My point is simply is that even if were proved that beef eating was prevalent in ancient times, something that D N Jha and Co are/were trying to do, let them, what exactly is the big deal?
I am sure our ancient civilization, can handle this storm in a tea cup!
Best regards
Ravi Chaudhary