Well! We are not forcing anyone to leave the tradition but here we are talking about the wrong aspect of this sacrifice. Even my family give sacrifice every year & during the "holy thread" ritiual of my brother, my family gave the sacrifice of 10 goats at once & that was really painful.
If we talk about the past, there was the tradition of "SATI", even that was our tradition, but we abolished that. Why???
Hey DD, that was our tradition & was also associated with the faith but why did we abolish that? At the beginning, only 1 or 2 people thought that was wrong, slowly 10 people thought this is wrong & then after certain period of time most of the people thought this to be wrong & so finally this was abolished.
DD even you are saying that this is not absolutely the right thing but then this is our tradition. We can't simply follow the tradition blindly if its wrong.
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| there are lots of people (mainly women) who are depressed and have no where to turn but to god and that is probably one way coming at peace with themselves |
If any people is depressed then there are thousands of ways to get peace of mind not just by giving sacrifice. Go & serve the needy people & by helping others definitely going to get great peace of mind. By taking life of someone how can someone get peace of mind???
I am a non-veg & definitely will continuing eating non-veg foods but I am strictly against this tradition.
I think if we, the new generation think this is really a wrong practice then definitely this tradition of giving sacrifice can be abolished during our period though currently not possible.
This is my personal views & I don't want to hurt anyone sentiments regarding the tradition & if I had hurt someone then "Sorry". But I am strictly against this tradition.