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Ich freue mich auf einen regen Austausch.
Euer Vedanta
Jai Shri Haridas Shastri Maharaj ji (English)
Shri Haridas Shastri Maharaja ji, Disappearance Day
Friday, September 22, 2017
Exactly four years ago, Shri Haridas Shastri Maharaja ji left this transient world. He now lives a blissful life on Goloka, Krishna's planet of the cows. However, cows were already a central part of his life here on earth. Maharaja ji loved cows above all else, and it was his heart‘s desire that they were lovingly cared for and fed. It is also remarkable that an elite academic such as Maharaja ji, with nine university degrees and three doctorates, preferred to spend his time humbly cleaning out the barn and serving the cows.
It is therefore no wonder that he has always vehemently campaigned to put an end to the daily, globally organized mass murder of animals and in particular cows. Fearless and militant, he took his vedic point of view.
As early as 1971, he wrote an academic treatise entitled "A Review of Beef in Ancient India". In our recent Janmasthami article we have already quoted a little bit from it, namely on the alleged cow sacrifices in the Vedas, based on a grossly amateurish or bad faith interpretation of the Sanskrit term gomedha. On the occasion of today's celebration, here are a few more quotes from this treatise (pages 178-179), where he shows in short that cow slaughtering is not only forbidden for Hindus, but also for Christians and Muslims alike:
Heinousness of Cow-Slaughter in the Manu-Smriti
„A teacher, propounder (of the scriptures), father, mother, guru, brahmana, cow and ascetic – they should never be killed.“
- Manu-smriti 4.162
The slaying of persons specified in the stanza has been equated with cow-slaughter. In other words it means that cow-slaughter is on par with murder of a teacher, propounder of the scriptures, father, mother, guru and brahmana.
Heinousness of Cow-Slaughter in Christianity
„He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man.“
- Isaiah (66/3)
According to English dictionaries, the word „ox“ stands for the male and female species of the bovine family.
Prohibition of Beef in Islam
Al-Ghazzāli (1058-1111 A.D.) was one of the most brilliant philosophers of Islam. At the age of 28, he headed the Institute of Islam at Baghdad. His chief book, „Ihya Ulum ul-Dīn“ - The Revival of Religious Sciences“ is respected as highly as the Quran. Its Urdu translation has been published by the Navalkishore Press, Lucknow under the title Mazākul Ārafīn. In its 1955 edition (part 2, page 23, lines 17-19 the detrimental effects of beef, and the virtues of ghee and milk of a cow are stated as follows:
„The meat of a cow is disease (marz), its milk is health (śafā) and its ghee is medicine (davā).“
Jai Shri Haridas Shastri Maharaja ji!!
