Dharmic Diwali (Share the article with your friends)
The festival itself is a special occasion for Lord Narayana and Maha Lakshmi. In the worship of Lord Vishnu or Lakshmi, there is no ahimsa. For example, many of us are celebrating Diwali by inviting friends and offering them alcohol and animal meat.
In recent research by the World Health Organization, animal meat can cause cancer in the human body, and alcohol is for sure not recommended even by science. In the Vedic way of worshipping Lord Narayana, there is no place for dead animals and alcohol. Lord Narayana is always been worshipped in the mood of goodness. There are 3 kinds of guns/moods.
•Mood of Ignorant
•Mood of passion
•Mood of Goodness
So, Diwali is falling in the mood of goodness. You may offer vegetarian food to Lord Narayana and serve the prasadam to your guests. This will create positive energy and blessings from the Supreme Lord. Drink more herbal tea such as mint tea, cumin tea, coriander tea and etc. By serving guests healthy drinks it creates positive energy in their bodies. We should be the motivator of good energy and exemplary for the coming up generation.
By serving animal meat and alcohol we are simply creating bad energy and bad karma. In all our past Vivekachudamani postings Sripad Sankaracarya is asking us to cut of all material attachments and boost more love of the Godhead. This page stands together with Vedas and great acaryas who preached spiritual matters.
In our dharma, we do not have any acaryas who told us to eat animals or drink as much as you can even in normal days. Alcohol and meat-eating has shaken up the whole of India. Let us take a vow to celebrate this Diwali in a Vedic or Dharmic way.
["The purchaser of flesh performs himsa (violence) by his wealth; he who eats flesh does so by enjoying its taste; the killer does himsa by actually tying and killing the animal. Thus, there are three forms of killing. He who brings flesh or sends for it, he who cuts of the limbs of an animal, and he who purchases, sells, or cooks flesh and eats it-all of these are to be considered meat-eaters." (Mahabharata, Anu. 115:40)
So, Diwali is falling in the mood of goodness. You may offer vegetarian food to Lord Narayana and serve the prasadam to your guests. This will create positive energy and blessings from the Supreme Lord. Drink more herbal tea such as mint tea, cumin tea, coriander tea and etc. By serving guests healthy drinks it creates positive energy in their bodies. We should be the motivator of good energy and exemplary for the coming up generation.
By serving animal meat and alcohol we are simply creating bad energy and bad karma. In all our past Vivekachudamani postings Sripad Sankaracarya is asking us to cut of all material attachments and boost more love of the Godhead. This page stands together with Vedas and great acaryas who preached spiritual matters.
In our dharma, we do not have any acaryas who told us to eat animals or drink as much as you can even in normal days. Alcohol and meat-eating has shaken up the whole of India. Let us take a vow to celebrate this Diwali in a Vedic or Dharmic way.
["The purchaser of flesh performs himsa (violence) by his wealth; he who eats flesh does so by enjoying its taste; the killer does himsa by actually tying and killing the animal. Thus, there are three forms of killing. He who brings flesh or sends for it, he who cuts of the limbs of an animal, and he who purchases, sells, or cooks flesh and eats it-all of these are to be considered meat-eaters." (Mahabharata, Anu. 115:40)
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