THERE IS NO MENTION OF BEEF EATING IN VEDAS AND NOR IT IS A HINDU CUSTOM.
Upananda Brahmachari | HENB | Haridwar | Oct 10, 2015:: There is no mention of cow slaughter or beef eating in Vedas or any authenticated Sanatan Shatras (scriptures) nor it is a Hindu custom at all. After the Islamic invasion in India, the communal Muslim rulers tried to hurt and demean the Hindu sentiments through cow slaughter. Even then, some rulers like Humayun or Akbar issued directives not to kill cows to control the wrath and repercussion out of the sacrileges.
But, Raghuvansh Prasad Singh says Rishi-Maharshi also used to eat beef. In a election rally in Bihar, this great pundit of RJD said, “It’s written in Vedas that Rishi-Maharshi (saints) also used to eat beef… There is no point discussing it at present (at a time when elections are held).”
It is difficult to assess whether this political stooge of pseudo secularism does know the Sanskrit language or had he gone through the Vedas at least once. But, as this man claims his political heights and Indian media morons run after him and clandestinely they spread this misconception all around about ‘Cow slaughter’ and ‘Beef eating’ in Vedas.
Another self styled expert in Vedas and Hindu scriptures D N Jha (Dwijendra Narayan Jha), a prominent member of the Communist school, exhorts the gibberish about same beef eating and cow slaughter without understanding the Vedas, Hindu scriptures and Indian values. Engineered by his love for beef and Muslim community, he has written a book titled as “The Myth of the Holy Cow” in which he tried only to customize the beef eating in the denying Hindu society.
Recently his opinion was highlighted by ‘BBC Hindi section’ under a caption, भारत में गोहत्या कब, कैसे पाप बना (When and how cow slaughter counted as a sin in India). This article is full of untruth and just a propaganda for beef eating without giving any reference from scriptures.
In these days he is again appeared in the media like ‘Daily O’ through another beef lover Ursila Ali under a caption Why Hindus stopped eating beef and began to worship cows. This article is also full of concoction of anti-Hindu politics and the propagation for cow killing.
Those who are little conscious about Vedas, other classical Hindu scriptures and Indian values, they know the Hindu’s highest veneration for Go Mata (Mother cow) and Brishav (Ox) comes from traditional Hindu culture and tradition. Killing of cows are treated as an extreme sin and cows are declared as a sacred living being beyond hurting anyway.
Veda exponent Adi Shankara, Maharshi Dayananda Saraswati or Shri Aurobindo categorically declared cow as holy being and never included as any purpose of slaughter anyway anywhere in the scriptures like Vedas and authenticated Puranas.
Many Arya Samaj scholars in Vedas and Hindu Pontiffs and researchers invited these academic and political morons to have a discussion and know the reality of Hindu shastras in connection with cow slaughter and beef eating, but they did not ready to reach the truth about it.
A Hindu Vedic organ, “Agniveer” challenged these ‘cow killers’ and ‘beef lovers’ before misguiding others by misusing Vedas and other Hindu scriptures, but the politicalization and the Muslim appeasements in India keep the ‘Beef Party’ high and popular out of a vote bank politics. The reference and research of Vedas and other Hindus scriptures have no values to these beef lovers and hater of Hindu culture and tradition.
But, the truth about Holy Cow, importance of Cow resource in Indian agriculture, health and economy and its protection must be revealed as a part of existential elements for the Hindu tradition and culture in Bharat.
In this context the following materials from Go Raksha Page of Hindu Existence in http://hinduexistence.org/go-raksha-cow-protection/ should be recapitulated once again.
Vande Go Mataram!
Hindu intellectuals please stop propagation of beef eating and cow slaughter……..
~ Upananda Brahmachari. [First published 06/01/2013].
As a Hindu, I deserve a special veneration to Mother Cow (Go Mata) alike Mother Earth, Mother Ganga or Mother Gayatri, the exponent of Vedas for the highest revelation of consciousness.
But, in my 30 years of Hindu activism, I could not spare any special thrust for the Save Cow (Go Raksha) Movements until I join with Rashtriye Goraksha Sena (RGS) of Sri Ashoo Mongia in 2011. With the team of RGS, the movement of Go Raksha got an impetus and I tried my level best to design a new dimension of this sacred movement in West Bengal in a practical level of confrontation with the opponents supporting the rampant cow slaughter in West Bengal violating all the existing rules and regulations. In the same year I was acquainted with another Save Cow activist of Arya Samaj of West Bengal, Acharya Yogesh Shasrti whose association in the cause of Go Raksha gave me a continuous scope to widen the Save Cow Movement in West Bengal and adjacent States. The Bangiya Arya Pratinidhi Sabha is also associated with the judicial procedure for Banning the Cow Slaughter in West Bengal with its tireless efforts. I am fortunate so that I have got amply scope to render my technical support for the existing Court Cases connected with banning cow slaughter. I am also engaged with building up an awareness generation for the protection of Go Sampad (Assets) for the development of our country, as well as the protection of our Sanatan-Vedic-Hindu culture and heritage based upon our extreme veneration to Go Mata.
Now, I have been facing a very odd experience with my other fellows linked with Go Raksha Andolan (movement) coming from some quarters of renowned Hindu Thinkers and Writers and some Hindu Activists (very few in number) who are extremely engaged with propagating beef eating and consequently cow slaughter very wrongfully hurting the major Hindu sentiments. These persons are writing books, distributing leaflets with the propagation of beef eating and cow slaughter as a basic foundation and heritage of Hindu Dharma with a very suicidal measures to dismantle the Hindu respect and faith of Cow worship and Cow Protection as a Dharmik practice.
A most important book from Gita Press categorically disproves any beef eating in Hindu Scriptures:
A Review of Beef in Ancient India:Compiled by Jaidayal Dalmia and others, Gita Press, Gorakhpur (1971)
These persons are taking the help of some text Dr Ambedkar who acted as a chief antagonist of his Hindu counterpart by writing the defamatory Riddles In Hinduism in which he challenged the authenticity of Vedas and the identity of Hindutva. In this book Dr Ambedkar tried to thrash out both Lord Rama and Lord Krishna to demoralize the Hindu practices in Bharat. With the help of quotations from Dr Ambedkar, the present Hindu writers and self proclaimed savior of Hindutva very scrupulously tried to infuse beef eating in the Hindus connected/influenced by them.
These persons are also the taking the help of some text of Swami Vivekanda, who was in a clear confusion for beef-eating and was not an exponent of Vedas or Sanskrit Grammar or some technical pedagogy without which, the real meaning of Mantras (Hymns) aren’t revealed anyway. These persons are also taking the confusing illustration of some Vedic Mantras lead to a wrong direction and helping the Muslim preachers who always try earnestly to offer a piece of cooked beef to any Hindu to make it consumed by a Hindu in any method to cross the renounce line for his religious restrictions above all. But, these Hindu propagators are not ready to hear anybody to rethink over their anti-Hindu misdeed or to retry to understand the facts about the real heights of Go Mata in our Scriptures.
Some of such Hindu beef propagators, I think under some conspiracy beyond their imagination are actually victim of certain Anti Hindu lobby, who are very tactfully using Hindu intellectuals against Hindus like a iron cuts the iron. I can say such two Hindu experts for ‘beef eating’ in West Bengal are Dr. Radhasyam Brahmachari and Rana Pratap Roy. Dr Brhmachari is an eminent Hindu Thinker and excellent writer of Hindu Philosophy, History, Religion (actually Dharma which is quite different from Religion) and best Bengali exponent of anti-Jihad. He was a senior professor of Applied Physics Department of Calcutta University and also adorned the presidential post of Vishwa Hindu Parishad of West Bengal Unit, who was rather expelled from mainstream Hindu organisations due to his embarrassing propagation of beef eating. Another, Sri Ranapratap Roy is an ex-service man (perhaps in the higher echelon in Indian Army) and is a key person in one Save India Mission, who thinks that eating beef is the most effective remedy to save India with much physical and mental strength. In their every discussion in the present days, they jointly propagate beef eating to strengthen our reactive power against anti-Hindu force, specially the Jihadi Islamic force. What an irony that Muslims propagate beef eating to strenghtless our congenital bondage of Hindutva and these self proclaimed Hindu saviors think beef eating to strengthen our sense of Hindu heritage.
Related Go-Samvad:
We earnestly urged these Hindu beef eaters to understand the Vedic reality and not to propagate the unauthentic Vedic-Hindu myth of Cow Sacrifice in Yajna (fire-sacrifice) or beef eating, but they are discarding all of our points in a very fundamental way of Muslims under which they kill cows and eat beef only to hurt Hindu sentiments and creating communal disharmony. We have every answer for our Hind friends who madly propagate cow slaughter and beef eating, but they are only to rely the Secular and Muslim views against the Hindu Unity.
Even then, we urged all consciousness to spread its strength of truth under the blessings of Cow Protection in the cause of Nation building. In the next portion we reproduce some pages from http://www.agniveer.com for this page dedicated for Go Raksha and Samvardhan (Protection and Development). We believe that the confused persons may get rid off their hostility to kill cows and eat it cynically. We are also indebted to Dr Subramnian Swamy for using one of his articles here for Cow Protection. Vande Gomataram!
At first see this unique video to break our ignorance and false propagation about Beef in Vedas & Hinduism.
There is no Beef in Vedas
DECEMBER 4, 2008 BY SANJEEV AGNIVEER.
Vedas – Myths and Reality
- No Beef in Vedas – 2
- There is no Beef in Vedas
- Soma, Alcohol and Vedas
- Vedas promote universal love – 1
- No Beef in Vedas – 20 Min Crash Course
- Vedas promote universal love – 2
This article is also available in Hindi athttp://agniveer.com/4387/there-is-no-beef-in-vedas-hi/
The material presented here is based on a thorough and objective analysis of roots of Vedic words, the context in which they appear, Vedic Vocabulary, Philology, Grammar and other tools critical for correct interpretation of the Vedic mantras. Thus this research series does not merely rely on blind reproduction of works of Max Muller, Griffith, Wilson, Williams and other indologists on Vedas and Vedic language. While they are more popular in contemporary western academia, we have objective reasons to conclude that their works are far from authoritative. We shall explore this facet in more detail in this research series. Welcome to this first part of the research series on critical evaluation of Misconceptions surrounding the Vedas – the first books of knowledge on earth.
For centuries aspersions have been cast upon the Vedas; the primary holy scriptures of the Hindus of having unholy contents. If one really started believing in those aspersions, the entire Hindu philosophy, culture, and traditions would reduce to nothing but savagery, barbarism and cannibalism.
The Vedas – the very roots of Hinduism, rather the first source of knowledge on earth – are meant for guiding the actions of human being in order to lead a blissful life.
This slanderous campaign has been unleashed by different vested interests to embarrass Hindus around the world citing specific references from the Vedas.
This also comes handy in convincing poor and illiterate Indians to give up their faith on the grounds that their fundamental holy books – the Vedas – contain all the inhuman elements like denigration of women, meat-eating, polygamy, casteism and above all – beef eating.
The Vedas are also accused of animal sacrifice in sacrificial ceremonies popularly known as the YAJNA. Interestingly a section of home-bred intellectuals claiming to have deep study of ancient India has also come up, who cite references from works of western indologists to prove such unholy content in the Vedas.
Saying that the Vedas permit beef-eating and cow-slaughter amounts to striking a lethal blow to a Hindu’s soul. Respect for cow forms a core tenet of Hinduism. Once you are able to convince him of flaws in the foundation of this core tenet and make him feel guilty, he becomes an easy prey for the predator faiths. There are millions of ill-informed Hindus who are not empowered to counter argue and hence quietly surrender.Read details here>>
No Beef in Vedas – 2
MARCH 24, 2011 BY SANJEEV AGNIVEER.
Vedas – Myths and Reality
- No Beef in Vedas – 2
- There is no Beef in Vedas
- Soma, Alcohol and Vedas
- Vedas promote universal love – 1
- No Beef in Vedas – 20 Min Crash Course
- Vedas promote universal love – 2
No Beef in Vedas
We had published an analysis of the allegation that Vedas have references of beef-eating and animal sacrifice in http://agniveer.com/68/no-beef-in-vedas/ . We provided ample evidences in this work that:
a. Vedas are completely against animal killing and violence on innocent creatures
b. Vedic Yajna is by definition non-violent and animal sacrifice is against Vedic precepts
c. Contrary to claims of beef consumption in Vedas, there are references that call for protection of cows and destruction of those who kill this most productive and harmless animal.
Thankfully after the publication of this work, the slanderous campaign against Vedas has lost its teeth significantly and no reasonable rebuttal to the content of the work ever surfaced. However, a few minor voices have continued to mislead people on this issue using splinter quotes from translations of Vedic literature by incompetent western indologists and juxtaposing them with their own agenda. In this work, we would attempt to address some of those allegations and make the two part work a reasonable single point reference to counter any such misled campaign in future. For those desiring a more detailed exposition, we have already provided a list of references at the end of Part 1 of the work.
So lets begin:
Allegation:
It is well-known that animal sacrifice was necessary in Yajna. Vedas are full of praise of Yajnas.
Agniveer:
Yajna word is derived from root ‘Yaj’ by adding Nan pratyaya. Yaj root has three meanings : Devapuja (behaving appropriately with the entities around- worshipping Eeshvar, respecting parents, keeping the environment clean etc are few examples), Sangatikaran (Unity) and Daan (Charity). As per Vedas, these form the primary duty of human beings and hence Yajna is so emphasized not only in Vedas but in almost entire Indian literature of ancient era.
What is important however is the fact that Yajna has no reference to animal killing whatsoever. In fact, Nirukta (Vedic vocabulary) clearly states in 2.7 that Yajna is called Adhwara. Dhwarameans violence and hence it is totally banned in Yajna.
In other words, forget about animal killing, any kind of violence – through mind, body or voice – is completely banned in Yajna.
Adhwara is used to imply Yajna in a large number of mantras in the Vedas. For example, Rigveda 1.1.4, 1.1.8, 1.14.21, 1.128.4, 1.19.1, Atharvaveda 4.24.3, 18.2.2, 1.4.2, 5.12.2, 19.42.4. Around 43 mantras in Yajurveda refer to Adhwara.
In fact Yajurveda 36.18 clearly states that “May I look upon everyone – Sarvaani Bhootani (and not only human beings) with friendly eyes.”
Thus, Vedas, nowhere justify animal sacrifice and on contrary condemn any form of violence on innocent beings.
Historically, there may have been prevalence of animal sacrifice, but that has nothing to do with content of Vedas. Many Muslim girls and boys have been working as vulgar models and actresses in film industry. In fact in Bollywood, most top actors and actresses have been Muslims. This does not necessarily mean Quran justifies vulgarity. Similarly, adultery and pre-marital sex is widespread in Christian countries. This does not mean Bible demands them to indulge in these vices.
In same vein, while animal sacrifice may have been an historical phenomenon due to decadence of Vedic values, we openly challenge anyone to cite even one single reference from Vedas that talk of animal sacrifice in Yajna. Read details here>>
Cow Is A Sacred Asset Of The Nation
~ Dr. Subramanian Swamy
When India fought the First War of Independence in 1857, and Bahadur Shah ‘Zafar’ was installed as emperor by the Hindus in Delhi for a brief period, his Hindu Prime Minister, on the emperor’s proclamation, made the killing of cow a capital offence. Earlier in Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s kingdom, the only crime that had capital punishment was cow slaughter.
One global patent has been granted for cow urine, neem and garlic as a pest repellent,fungicidal and growth promontory properties for all different crops.
Our West influenced intellectuals and mentally dominated by foreign idiom, sneer at the mention of the cow, leave alone speaking about the cow as an asset to the nation. But we know that these intellectuals first sneered at yoga, now it is a fashion for them doing pranayama at cocktail parties. They also sneered at our sanyasis, calling them disparagingly as “Godmen”. Now they flock to ashrams with their white friends ever sincethe Beatles did. Who knows, they may soon boast of a cow in their backyards. For those of us who are desi by pedigree and conviction, I place some facts about the cow in the new perspective of modern Hindutva.
India has 150 million cows today, giving an average of less than 200 litres of milk per year. If they could be fed and looked after, then these divine animals can give an average of 11,000 litres of milk as the Israeli cows do. That could provide milk for the whole world. The milk we produce today is the cheapest in the world. With enhanced production by raising the productivity of milch cows we can become the world’s largest exporter of milk and India’s biggest foreign exchange earner.
The cow was elevated to the status of divinity in the Rg.Veda iself. In Book VI, the Hymn XXVIII attributed to Rishi Bhardwaja, extols the virtue of the cow. In Atharva Veda (Book X, Hymn 10), the cow is formally designated as Vishnu, and “all that the Sun surveys.” This divine quality of the cow has been affirmed by Kautilya in his Arthsastra (Chapter XXIX) as well.
The Indian society has addressed the cow as gow mata. The Churning of the Sea episode brings to light the story of the creation of the cow. Five divine Kamadhenus (wish cows), viz, Nanda, Subhadra, Surabhi, Sushila, Bahula emerged in the churning.
Cow is there in the company of Bhagwan Dattatreya and Gopal Krishna. Cow is the vehicle of Shaillputri and Gowri – two of the nine manifestations of Goddess Durga. Ancient coins with image of bull Nandi on them have been found in excavations.
Thousands of names of places, persons and things in our country have name of the cow: e.g. Gauhati, Gorakhpur, Goa, Godhra, Gondiya, Godavari, Goverdhan, Gautam, Gomukh, Gokarna, Goyal, Gochar etc. , that signify the deep reverence and high ground reserved for the cow and her progeny in our culture. Why? Because of the deep abiding faith that the cow is verily the Annapurna. Read details here>>
We bow to all the devotees for Cow Protection Movement. Cow Protection Movement is a very important factor for the Unity of the Hindus to make a hindu Rashtra in Bharat. Vande Go Mataram. Jayatu Jayatu Hindu Rashtram.
Courtesy: Folk Magazine | Agniveer.
Pictorial presentation on Go-Pujan ~ Go Seva ~ Go Samvardhan.
Courtesy: National Conference on ‘Glory of Go-Mata’.
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POSTSCRIPT: SEEING ALL THESE, THOSE ACADEMIC AND POLITICAL MORONS STILL THINK BEEF EATING AND COW SLAUGHTER AS THEIR RIGHTS IN BHARAT, THEY ARE CRITICAL BASTARDS OUT OF ISLAMIC SPERMS IN SECULAR WOMB. GLORY TO SAY, THOSE WHO WILL COME FORWARD TO KILL COWS IN FRONT OF HINDUS, HINDUS HAVE THE RIGHT TO SAVE THOSE COWS BY KILLING THE COW KILLERS.