Aswamedh the horse sacrifice- Is it right -Ram - Page 3

thanks for a insightful and a very interesting rounds of discussions by everyone... I love the mythological serials just not for its contents,but for the series of thoughts it triggers and by it means helps us to learn a little better ,shape up and evolve and these threads friends have helped a lot for it and my sincere appreciation for everyone who have helped even silent members like me to understand and learn better..

please bare with me as i have still to learn the language of effective communication in short as most of my thoughts tends to be longer which is the main reason i remain silent mostly as i even become tired after my monologue😉

yesterday's episode as well put by others a lesson in many ways.. would just put my perception on certain highlights which i liked and loved very much...

the first ram's question as to y this need to be done... and vasishta's answer it's mainly done as a means to kill the ego of the king...

so my first confusion came as how it could quench one's ego and got a very interesting answer..

here https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-Ashwamedh-Yagya

in its essence its not a mere sacrifice of a horse but a lesson on humility to the king and the queens as they are made to do everything from lying behind a slain horse to eat the meat of the horse even give his queens as an alm to the priests which is supposed to make a king realize that just because he became a ruler of everyone .he doesn't own anything. he should never yet forgive that whatever has given to him is indeed not his in essentiallity ,...

but then ram's question takes significance as he doesn't oppose this view of vasishta ... his confusion or discard lies not in the tradition ,but the whole purpose of the tradition itself or teh objective of it...

the objective of the sacrifice is to quench one's ego ,but by taking the authority of killing a living being to learn a lesson ( is it in itself not an ego?) so how is the end achieved .. though it could teach a lesson of humility on the king the foundation it lies upon is it in itself based on a ego ...

and its context would like to put upon an incident which taught me a lesson on humbleness..

so being a single vegetarian among all my fellow friends in school the first question i get is

why don't you eat non veg and my standard answer those days would be uh that's because we consider it as a sin to eat non-veg and would just like to put a very interesting dialog that i ahd with my friend which is till today a lesson and drastically changed my thinking,

Friend :y do you offer prasads before god and i said . ..

Me: dumfounded for a minute said ya may be i guess to show our devotion to god...and love sometime even in those days to answer a lit bit logically so added and by that may be i could share what i have with others there by helping the needy ...

lFriend so is it not a sin?

Me: i was wondering what sin could be there ... i'm preparing the prasad with utmost devotion ,giving it to the god and providing the needy ... how could it be a sin ...?

Friend: how do u feel about animal sacrifice performed in the temple

Me:.. hmm i feel bad ... somehow couldn't accept it

Freind: how is it in anyway different from the prasad you offer ... the whole animal is brought up with atmost love and care and devotion as it's going to be given to the god... then we respectfully thank its existence as its even in its death is going to help the needy a food for certain necessary beings who needs it as their nature of work demands it and also to preserve the ecological balance ..we acknowledge the sacrifice of the fellow living being to help others evolve an in turn find their purpose in life as the every step we take in our life is it not from a sacrifice of a living or non living ? don't we say pramatma is in every bit of this whole earth ? isn't it the inner meaning of any religion that pramatma is omnipresent and found everywhere .. so sacrificing an animal or a plant or a soil or anything in its essentiallity the same ... so should it not be that you should be worrying about whether you offer prasad or animal or whatever but inturn understand and appreciate what the nature in itself gives you and so only take what is just needed and hold a overall compassion not only for animals but in essentiallity any single bit be it a living or a non living organism,.. be it a sand,water or plants fruits or anything...

which made me deeply think she in turn help me realize not the tradition alone , but the whole purpose of the tradition (to understand and appreciate what life offers) and realized why we worship nature .. y do we offer prayers to in turn our land ,soil and everything and y do we have gods and godess in every form..and to this day when the question is repeated i do say i don't take it because its not needed for my nature of work...

The point of this lengthy dialogue in itself is to show like rama next said that in essence we should start not seeing as animals or plants or anything by mere categorising which would lead us inturn unkowingly put as in top and inturn would grow our ego but to see every single bit as a living being a essence of pramatma. and duly respected and acknowledged

and the precap was another beautiful message where he wonders would in this whole of world when the ashwa travels would he be only seen as a magnificient animal , to be challenged , to be feared or would there be a fellow being who could realize it as a fellow living being a part of pramatma and treated as such...

again friends i putforth these argument not to argue against the rightness or wrongness of anything but to merely suggest a beautiful message that if we make a conscious effort to see pramatma in evrything then we may help preserve our nature as rama beautifully putforth