WILL "MASS ANIMAL SLAUGHTER" BAN IN NEPAL INSPIRE OTHER RELIGIONS TOO?
As the news spread across the globe that Nepal has banned mass animal slaughter, this might has come as a great relief not only to animal lovers or activists but also to all the sensitive human beings like me who are kind- hearted. Killing innocent animals on the pretext of pleasing god is not at all acceptable.
Nepalese temple authorities have declared that they are going to end a centuries-old Hindu tradition of mass animal slaughter. Gadhimai festival is held every five years in Nepal to attract 2.5 million Hindu worshippers and thousands of animals are sacrificed on this occasion in the hope of appeasing the Hindu goddess of power, Gadhimai.
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| Courtesy:theguardian.com |
Shri Motilal Prasad, Secretary of Gadhimai Temple trust has categorically said that they have decided to completely stop the practice of animal sacrifice realizing that animals are so much like us - they feel the same pain as the human beings. Estimated 2,00,000 animals are killed in Gadhimai festival.
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It was not easy to end a 400-year old custom. It took more than 400 years to convince the people that there is no need to sacrifice the animals to please the goddess.This is really a historic and tradition - breaking step.
Followers of a particular religion put forward the argument that to please the God we need to sacrifice a person who is near & dear. But who is more dear than one's son? Then why not son is sacrificed ? Why in his place innocent, voiceless, helpless, hapless goats are butchered or killed slowly-slowly? Why not lion is sacrificed ? It is argued that this is done to control the population of the goats. Then why not sacrifice human beings on the same ground?
Tradition may have come down due to, may be any incident and the same may have been interpreted to justify. But such traditions can be broken if not found suitable or reasonable on the ground of sensitivity or kindness as in the case of Nepal. There is no ground or valid reason to kill innocent animals. No sensitive human being will do this. Only cruel, barbaric, inhuman , bloodthirsty, barbarous, savage will.
A religion can grow only when there is healthy discussion, healthy reasoning, healthy discourses.Wrong tradition is broken or removed and constant and continuous transformation are brought about wiping out superstitions & fundamentalist attitudes, which are not based on humanitarianism, pity, compassion & kind-heartedness.
But religions which do not discuss, do not do purging, cannot grow, get stagnated & become fanatic, barbaric, barbarous, inhuman, fundamentalist, cruel, zealot.
Let good sense prevail upon all human beings & religions. Be thirsty of love , of affection, of kindness, of humaneness , not of blood, not of any one's life -human or animal or for that matter any living being.
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Tradition may have come down due to, may be any incident and the same may have been interpreted to justify. But such traditions can be broken if not found suitable or reasonable on the ground of sensitivity or kindness as in the case of Nepal. There is no ground or valid reason to kill innocent animals. No sensitive human being will do this. Only cruel, barbaric, inhuman , bloodthirsty, barbarous, savage will.
A religion can grow only when there is healthy discussion, healthy reasoning, healthy discourses.Wrong tradition is broken or removed and constant and continuous transformation are brought about wiping out superstitions & fundamentalist attitudes, which are not based on humanitarianism, pity, compassion & kind-heartedness.
But religions which do not discuss, do not do purging, cannot grow, get stagnated & become fanatic, barbaric, barbarous, inhuman, fundamentalist, cruel, zealot.
Let good sense prevail upon all human beings & religions. Be thirsty of love , of affection, of kindness, of humaneness , not of blood, not of any one's life -human or animal or for that matter any living being.
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