Khusboo,
This is a good topic U started and it led to a decision that you were thinking for such a long time so must have been good.
I respect your decision to be a veggie; it is such a tough decision for those who have been non-veg and whose mouth water when they hear of MoMos, Mashu-bhat, and chuwela-baji.
Sacrificing animals in the name of God has been tradition for long and if U think how it must have started then U will realise that some nut head was able to convince people that God needs blood to keep themselves quiet and then started the rituals of sacrifice and we have enough evidence to believe that it used to be human sacrifice not animals sacrifice when it started.
With time people realised that is wrong. To kill some one innocent in the name of God is wrong and instead of totally banishing the ritual that would have given a sort of cultural shock, it was gradually replaced by more acceptable animal sacrifice.
U r right, it is totally wrong to take life of some thing whom we cannot give life back. But just think isn't it being too impractical?
We are not God to be able to reverse everything that we do. Take things U do from morning to night and see how many can U undo. Very less.
God exists or not and what he wants us to do and what he does not want us to do is another discussion that will have no end. U accept God exists and that's why U say that God won't want us to sacrifice some innocent animal in His name. But, if God really thinks so then do U think we would be able to do so? Whatever we do is according to his will and we have no power to do anything against that. But, U will not accept this as a point of discussion here.
We have religion for some reason we ourself do not know. It causes so much chaos in otherwise peaceful world we all know but stil we have a religion and we cannot understand each and every rituals.
Religions itself is not necessary for the same reason animal sacrifices are not necessary. So, instead of being just a veg, why don't U give up ur religion itself. Don't ask me the question back because I have not thought of being a veg because I do not accept some aspect of my religion.
10 sacrifices for 'holy thread' raised my eye brows. I was wondering many thing with that. We still have so much resources to do such kind of things while we are living in a failing nation. This is just an example. There are so many things that happen around us that makes me believe our nation is still prosperous; like every inch of roads are packed with bikes and cars while all we need inside KTM are cute little bicycles. Another question that popped up was when it was my holy thread ceremony, they said in holy thread ceremony it is 'chokho' and there should be no animal sacrifices and we had a good veg function though I am a chetteri. So, sacrifices in holy thread ceremony didn't sound right. After all holy thread ceremony is supposed to be a ritual when boys become 'jogi' and meat should have no place there.
I was one of the first to comment here and I am sure no one really understood what I had said.
If U r so much against killing and not taking life of others then why do U kill insects? Why kill germs? Why plants? Else, tell me they do not have life. Does living thing mean walking, sleeping thing?
Ur mother cannot tolerate anything against tradition and religion and that's her way of thinking. U being a student of science should have logic behind such decision not just hatred.
Killing anything is not good. U know that and so many of us do but just turn the pages of news paper and U see even shameful news where one person is killing another for just some cheap motive - not for money, not for land but for some idiot ideology. U being veg will not change a single thing anywhere and it will neither bring peace to your mind. You are not doing anything significant there. You have much more potential to change things. Hope U spend your effort on those side rather than in settling the conflict of being a vegetarian or not being a vegetarian.
Killing for meat is not wrong. Not at all. If people stop eating chicken, chicken will go extinct. It is us who are saving the species.
We use millions of animals for research and there are many illogical voices against them saying that is against animal rights. I do not have to tell a medical student why we need to do animal researches even though those monkeys, guinea pigs, mice, pigs, etc suffer so much and are deliberately harmed.
U must be fond of nice looking good breeds of dogs and may be even cats but behind getting a good breed of one animal, there is a long story of killing and suffering.
Anyway, welcome to the world of vegetarian though the Gods you believe are themselves not vegetarian.
Finally, work for betterment of our species than worry about such practices that are already on their way out. Even if we kill all the goats in the world and goats become extinct also, there will be no ecological imbalance.
If U change ur mind to become a non-veg then let us know. May be we can have momos in KMC's canteen.
