Sand Dancer
Currently catless
Is meat eating horrible?
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Are all Hindus vegetarian?
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What percentage of Hindus are vegetarian? - India | Ask MetaFilter
Somewhere around 40% are. Why do you ask?
Somewhere around 40% are. Why do you ask?
Sand Dancer
Currently catless
I didn't know if it was a requirement. When I eat, I think of the animal that sacrificed its life for me to live. I do try to eat meat as infrequently as possible. Not Hindu, but really like it the more I am learning.
Around 30-40% are vegetarian. The rest eat meat, sans beef (hopefully).
Personally, I eat meat with the exception of beef. I also try my best to avoid pork. That being said, I am trying my best to transition into vegetarianism.
Personally, I eat meat with the exception of beef. I also try my best to avoid pork. That being said, I am trying my best to transition into vegetarianism.
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ratikala
Istha gosthi
namaskaram Thirza ji
to me yes it is totaly abhorent , amongst the Hindus I know personaly allmost all are vegetarian , only a few of the women that visit the temple say that their husbands eat meat because of the working association they keep but most of the women say that they prefer not to even cook it at home only if their husbands insist .
we are Vaisnava so the initiated vow to abstain .
to me yes it is totaly abhorent , amongst the Hindus I know personaly allmost all are vegetarian , only a few of the women that visit the temple say that their husbands eat meat because of the working association they keep but most of the women say that they prefer not to even cook it at home only if their husbands insist .
we are Vaisnava so the initiated vow to abstain .
Adharma is a result of ignorance. The wise view it from a distance as ignorance, not as good/bad comparisons. Each soul is a product of God, and it's essence identical. The advanced mathematician does not think lowly of a kid in grade 4 learning multiplication as a concept. but he just thinks, 'Hey, that was once me, and it's all good."
Red Zambala
Member
Yes, meat-eating is horrible! literary!
I was a young lad without much ideology - when I looked to some meat and thought - it is meat, it is horrible, probably I cannot digest it anymore, my organism has changed somehow, and some people think - it's not good for other animals - and so I never ate meat anymore since then......it was some 18 years ago or so... I believe I would vomit it if I would try - I just cannot eat meat - it is horrible!
I was a young lad without much ideology - when I looked to some meat and thought - it is meat, it is horrible, probably I cannot digest it anymore, my organism has changed somehow, and some people think - it's not good for other animals - and so I never ate meat anymore since then......it was some 18 years ago or so... I believe I would vomit it if I would try - I just cannot eat meat - it is horrible!
Aupmanyav
Be your own guru
For an advaitist like me, if I eat meat or a lion eats me, it is all the same, everything being Brahman.
Krishna said: O Partha, how can a person, who knows this as indestructible, unborn, eternal and immutable, kill anyone or cause anyone to be killed?
For an advaitist like me, if I eat meat or a lion eats me, it is all the same, everything being Brahman.
Krishna said: O Partha, how can a person, who knows this as indestructible, unborn, eternal and immutable, kill anyone or cause anyone to be killed?
What's the point of saying that? With that logic, can't rape and murder also be justified as being "all the same"?
Aupmanyav
Be your own guru
Rape and murder are not permitted by society, that makes them adharma. As for food, Dharmavyadha said even the vegetation has life. I will stop at this, but as I have always accepted vegetarianism is better than non-vegetarianism. It is a weakness and subserviance to tongue.
I happened to notice this thread that started 10 years back, and ended 8 years back. Vegetarianism | ReligiousForums.com
It makes you wonder just how many threads on vegetarianism have been started. Looking at that thread makes you see how much the forum has changed since way back then. I only saw 1 name I recognised.
It makes you wonder just how many threads on vegetarianism have been started. Looking at that thread makes you see how much the forum has changed since way back then. I only saw 1 name I recognised.
Actually, I have NEVER engaged with an AUTHORIZED Sampradaya with lineage descending down from a God, nor in direct communication with a Guru, of which
both I have known many, where vegetarianism is not preached. Never. Maybe coincidence, I don't know. Yes, at Kalighat Temple which I consider one of my Temples, the priest cuts off the head of a goat. But I know of no specific "Guru" from that temple. Just priests.
Yes I have seen "Brahmin" eating pork sausage on a domestic airplane flight. I was shocked.
I have no statistics to confirm my observation, however it is my gut feeling the claim (only) 30 to 40 percent of PRACTICING Hindus are vegetarian is not correct. The number is much higher.
And I know of NO Hindu who would eat beef. Zero. They gave up Hinduism or any birthright long ago and went "no religion" if they eat Mother Cow.
I am a "right-wing" Hindu. I know some Hindus eat chicken, but I give argument with any Hindu who eats beef or pork. Otherwise, though I leave them alone. I believe the huge majority of Hindus will NOT EAT beef or pork.
both I have known many, where vegetarianism is not preached. Never. Maybe coincidence, I don't know. Yes, at Kalighat Temple which I consider one of my Temples, the priest cuts off the head of a goat. But I know of no specific "Guru" from that temple. Just priests.
Yes I have seen "Brahmin" eating pork sausage on a domestic airplane flight. I was shocked.
I have no statistics to confirm my observation, however it is my gut feeling the claim (only) 30 to 40 percent of PRACTICING Hindus are vegetarian is not correct. The number is much higher.
And I know of NO Hindu who would eat beef. Zero. They gave up Hinduism or any birthright long ago and went "no religion" if they eat Mother Cow.
I am a "right-wing" Hindu. I know some Hindus eat chicken, but I give argument with any Hindu who eats beef or pork. Otherwise, though I leave them alone. I believe the huge majority of Hindus will NOT EAT beef or pork.
Many Hindus that I know actually do eat beef. One of them is Nepali, while the others I think just don't care and simply are Hindus because of their family.