Posted by: Surendra Shakya March 8, 2022
Understanding Dharma
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The gist of today's Dharma Vahina:
The main takeaway of today is that once a person aligns himself with the divine, the Atmic-consciousness and lives his life, every worldly act also becomes sanctified. Such actions will be motivated by universal interest and well-being. On the other hand, all acts motivated by selfish interest are not at all dharma, even though it might appear as dharmic act, like going to the temples, donating money or clothes, or doing social work. 

As for consuming cow, the argument is called false logic. Kutarka. Just like people saying रगत सबैको रातो हुन्छ। Realize that there are different blood groups and if you give wrong blood to a patient, the case is finished. Red blood will not mean anything. Even for Covid, infection susceptibility is found to be different according to blood groups. Well, as for cows too, Western and Eastern cows are not the same, nor the mil or urine. Here I share a slide form my FB group स्वाभिमानी नेपालीः You can eat cows if you want, but the Western cow, not the local Eastern cows. But recently there has been import of Western cows in the name of increasing milk production. Indian government started this, and you know they are still suffering from colonized mentality. Even in Nepal, there was a news recently about buying Western cows for high milk production. The surface reality is not the real truth. There will be consequences, just like anything from the West, is superficial. If you want to know why the West is developed, that is also a superficial thing. Here is how. Mostly people understand "development" as physical convenience that makes labor us less, and increased the sensual pleasures. Isn't that so? That is okay to an extent, but not the extreme it has gone. Look at the cost of cow meat consumption. It has consequences for climate change due to high level of methane and the cost of farming. The West is totally a material-oriented culture. Their whole emphasis is in object manifestation. Naturally, what you focus on you excel in it. The East traditionally is spiritual-oriented. The goal in the West is to have financial freedom because you are loaded with debt all your life. But in the East, the goal is to get freedom from the cycle of birth. See, it is not the same kind of living.


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