Why Do You Try to Correlate the Eternal Hindu Religion (Sanaatana Dharma) With Others Who Eat the Flesh of a Cow?

[A question by Shri Bhavesh, Chennai]

Swami replied: You mean that cow-eaters shall not be excused, whereas goat-eaters can be excused! Both cow and goat are soft-natured animals only. The concept shall be that a soft-natured animal or human being shall not be killed. Cow is only representing all the soft-natured animals. Brahmana (not by birth but by qualities and deeds) represents every soft-natured human being and not a human being born in the caste of Brahmanas. You should not kill Brahmana- means that you should not kill any soft-natured human being. You should not kill cow- means that you should not kill any soft-natured animal or bird. If you refuse other religions by non-vegetarian food, several Hindus are also eating non-vegetarian food. You should not go by the fascination towards the name of a religion. You should analyze the scripture of that religion expressed by one of the human incarnations of God without any bias. Then, you will find the essence of the scriptures of all religions is one and the same since the same unimaginable God spoke all scriptures by mediating Himself in different human forms. Is there a scripture of any religion, which says that God does not exist, sin shall be done, good work must not be done etc.? We must find the basic unity of all worldly religions through which the basic unity among all the humanity shall be developed for the sake of world-peace, which alone pleases God to the climax level. Some say that the Islam scripture says to kill non-muslims! In such case, how the same scripture says that the Muslim shall help anybody in trouble, then preach the Islam scripture and then leave him/her freely without any force? Both these statements are mutually contradicting! Hence, we shall think about the probability of insertions by some bad followers even in scriptures in course of time.

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