[Assam] Beef eating; Much ado over nothing

[Mohan R. Palleti]

Perhaps we should be more receptive to the idea that religion is more like
somebody elses philosophy. And maybe ancient religious books were a
compilations of observations expressed with whatever little scientific
knowledge and vocabulary we had and yearned into a story.

Hinduism is first of all not a religion. It is a way of life. It did not
start at "a point" in time. It evolved over ages and passed down to us.
What we ate in ages back, we don't do that now. The practices of the
aghoras are more less palatable than what you would like. It was
Sankracharya that brought us together as a religion.Those practices are
not practised any more. Hinduism has always accepted changes. And our
practices have evolved over the ages.

Whether the religious books are epic tales or did it exists or not. I do
not wish to contest. Because I don't know...! But whatever celestial
observations that were recorded in the ancient texts did occur at other
places and were recorded in other religious books.

A for whether our forefathers at beef or not. I don't care. I am sure they
all ate dinosaurs too. And they did not distinguish between whatever meet
animal meet that were available. But from a certain point in time we don't
eat Beef. I would personally think that the cow and the Indus river must
have been the main pillar on which our civilization grew.

I am including some reading materials that might be of interest to the
reader.

Immanuel Velikovsky


http://www.unmuseum.org/velikov.htm

In 1950 a Russian-born psychiatrist named Immanuel Velikovsky authored a
controversial book. Velikovsky was extremely knowledgeable in the texts of
ancient peoples. Based on his interpretation of these texts, Velikovsky
reached the conclusion that our solar system, with its nine planets, was
not always the same as we see it today.

The book, Worlds in Collision, asserted that around 3,500 years ago the
planet Venus was somehow ejected from the planet Jupiter as a comet. Comet
Venus then started wandering through the solar system. Its gravitational
field pushed other planets out of their orbits or changed their rotation.

Velikovsky attributed many of the disasters recorded in ancient times to
this strange interaction the Earth had with Venus. Material that fell from
Venus's comet tail into Earth's atmosphere caused the plagues visited upon
Egypt as recorded in the Bible. "Plague is throughout the%2