DIVINE" INJUNCTIONS ABOUT DIET;
CONFUSED AND INCONSISTENT MANU!
Almost all religions have established dietary injunctions or prohibition, for their respective followers.Accordingly there are 'divine' instructions about Fish for Catholic,about Pig for Muslim and Jews and about Cow for Hindus as consecrated and invulnerable animal.
Manu Smiriti is one of the oldest and probably the most important of the Smiriti's,with the moral code and conduct for Hindu's,concerning their personal and social life.He has exclusively established diet injunctions in 5Th chapter,but it is apparent that his dietary injunctions ,symbolize and reflect his confusion,inconsistency and self contradiction.
*Verse 5:-Garlic,leeks,onion and mushrooms are unfit to be eaten by twice born men[divij-Brahman,Khshtriya and Vaish].
*Verse 28:-The lord of creatures[Prajapati/Brahma] created this whole world for the sustenance of the vital spirit.Accordingly both the immovable and the movable is the food for all.
*30:-The eater who daily even devours those destined to be his food,commits no sin;for the creator himself created both the eaters and those who are to be eaten.
*32:-He who eats meat,when he honors the gods,commits no sin,whether he has himself bought it or has himself killed or has received it from others.
*35:-A man,who being duly engaged to officiate or to dine at a sacred rite,refuses to eat meat,becomes after death an animal during 21 existences.
*45:-He who injuries/sacrifices animals,never finds happiness,neither living nor dead.
*48:-Meat can never be obtained without injury to living creatures and injury to sentient beings is detrimental to all of his bliss,let him therefore shun the use of meat.
*56:-There is no sin in eating meat,in drinking spirituous liquor and satisfying his carnal desire,for that is natural way of created beings but abstention brings great rewards.
[These are just few examples but the list is long one].
CONFUSED AND INCONSISTENT MANU!
Almost all religions have established dietary injunctions or prohibition, for their respective followers.Accordingly there are 'divine' instructions about Fish for Catholic,about Pig for Muslim and Jews and about Cow for Hindus as consecrated and invulnerable animal.
Manu Smiriti is one of the oldest and probably the most important of the Smiriti's,with the moral code and conduct for Hindu's,concerning their personal and social life.He has exclusively established diet injunctions in 5Th chapter,but it is apparent that his dietary injunctions ,symbolize and reflect his confusion,inconsistency and self contradiction.
*Verse 5:-Garlic,leeks,onion and mushrooms are unfit to be eaten by twice born men[divij-Brahman,Khshtriya and Vaish].
*Verse 28:-The lord of creatures[Prajapati/Brahma] created this whole world for the sustenance of the vital spirit.Accordingly both the immovable and the movable is the food for all.
*30:-The eater who daily even devours those destined to be his food,commits no sin;for the creator himself created both the eaters and those who are to be eaten.
*32:-He who eats meat,when he honors the gods,commits no sin,whether he has himself bought it or has himself killed or has received it from others.
*35:-A man,who being duly engaged to officiate or to dine at a sacred rite,refuses to eat meat,becomes after death an animal during 21 existences.
*45:-He who injuries/sacrifices animals,never finds happiness,neither living nor dead.
*48:-Meat can never be obtained without injury to living creatures and injury to sentient beings is detrimental to all of his bliss,let him therefore shun the use of meat.
*56:-There is no sin in eating meat,in drinking spirituous liquor and satisfying his carnal desire,for that is natural way of created beings but abstention brings great rewards.
[These are just few examples but the list is long one].
