Vegetarianism and animal's right to live

2,000 years ago, there was no proper teacher to teach Buddha on why animal sacrifices were performed says Kanchi Mahaswamigal in தெய்வத்தின் குரல் .

And so Buddhism spread across India and world, but soon Adi Shankarar and other teachers came and explained why its all part of Hinduism.(Explanations can be read in தெய்வத்தின் குரல் in detail). So in the land which gave birth to Buddhism had to once again return back to its Mother religion on Vedas as Hinduism.

Influenced by western ideas/education, now people want to talk of animal rights whenever animals are brought into any Hindu festival or rituals or traditions. But who is there to ask butchering animals’ meat and eating them to fill the stomach, is it not denying the right of animal to live? The Very basic right to live for animals is taken by these meat eaters and butchers, and no body wants to talk about animals’s right to live when people kill animals to fill their stomach?

The followers of Buddha might have stopped giving animal sacrifices meant to please devas (same way as how Zarathustra’s and its influenced mid east religions stopped) to get rain for everyone in world, including other animals to eat plants as Bhagavad Gita says. But have these followers stopped eating meat of animals? And what happened to compassion to animals which Buddha showed even for those sacrificial animals?

And also those animal rights groups always want to bring protests only when Hindus do anything with animals…what about Muslims who also remember their Holy Prophet’s sacrificial act and sacrifice goats and other animals?

This is what happens when one try to follow a religion founded by single man however holy or spiritual that man may be. For over the years of hundreds and thousands of years, the same discipline shown by that founder can not be seen in its followers. The followers over the years might also misinterpret their founder. Thus the followers damage their own religions themselves by being far off in their discipline from what the founder personally shown and lived. This might even happen to any saint or sage’s message of any religion including Hinduism. But the greatness of Hinduism is it is not founded by a single sage or saint, but on Vedas, the eternal laws which are only discovered at different times.

Hinduism asks its people why do you need to kill another life to feed your stomach and emphasizes vegetarian food leads one to better spiritual life. (Killing an animal is not same as cutting vegetables…)Also in Tamil Vedam of Thiruvkkural also same idea is mentioned, how could God’s grace be there for one who grows his meat by feeding on another meat? (Thirukkural 251)

தன்னூன் பெருக்கற்கு தான்பிறிது ஊனுண்பான்
எங்கனம் ஆளும் அருள் (குறள் 251)

In தெய்வத்தின் குரல் , Kanchi Mahaswamigal tells more in details on Vedas and Yagnas or vegetarianism for one is interested to read more.