Perfecting Youth

Author(s): Udayvallabhvijay
Publisher: Samkit Yuvak Mandal

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If you consider doing abhishek or prakshal using milk is waste because it creates shortage of milk and many people are living without it; then why are we allowing cattle slaughter in the slaughter house ? Slaughter houses create the scarcity of both milk and
water.
litres of water per animal to clean them. The AL-KABEER slaughter house in Andhra Pradesh consumes around 48 crores of litres of drinking water per year and the Deonar slaughter house in Mumbai consumes around 80 lakh litres of drinking water PER DAY.
While each individual living in the United States uses on average 100 to 175 gallons of water per day in home, the average African families uses only 5 gallons of water per day. For African women this often means carrying the typical jerrycan that can weigh over 40 pounds when full, for an average of 6 km each day. Offering milk during abhishek, offering flowers, fruits and sweets to the deities in temples shows our attachment with God. God doesn't require these things but we offer these out of our emotional attachment or love towards God. It satisfies us. Agreed, there are people who also need these things; but if someone offers this to the God (where they are emotionally attached) and then to those needy people out of sense of responsibility. The former action is devotion, the later is compassion. They should not be mixed up.
Take another example. We hoist the national flag on independence day. Do we ever consider that it is wastage of cloth or paper used for making flags. We do not use the same flags for the next year and make new flags each year. We allow the old flags to remain idle, but we don't and we can't use the flags for any other purpose. Can anyone dare to say laakho zande fahrane se behtar hai ki usi kapade se kisi nange ka sharir dhaka jaaye ? Can anyone tolerate this type of passion for compassion? The patriotic spirit that arises while hoisting and saluting the flag itself is greater than the greatest outcome of the deed of compassion. Same is the
In slaughter houses, it takes nearly 500
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