Milk Abhishegams to Lord Siva

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namo narayana

 

Dear all,

The traditional way of worshipping Lord Siva on Mahashivarathri

(especially) is to do abhishegham (abhishekha priya Sivan) to Him

with auspicious substances like Milk, Curds, Ghee, Sugar etc.

 

Before the dawn of this exploitative factory farming age, our saints

and seers used to procure Milk products in harmony with nature, the

milk was taken from the cow only after the calf has had it's fill and

the cow was worhipped as Go-matha. Such milk based abhiseghams are

certainly pleasing to Lord Siva (who is also Lord Pashupathinatha- or

the Lord of all living beings).

 

However in the present age, factory produced milk is a very cruel

exploitative product of torturing cattle. Indeed one can surely say

that it would be less painful for the cow to be killed outright

rather than to be enclosed in a tiny space, chained in its own waste

in darkness, cold and filth for the rest of its life. It is pumped

with insane amounts of hormones, and other toxic medications to

artifically increase milk production. The large amounts of hormones,

antibiotics and other unnatural feed, cause the cow to grow large and

make it prone to bone fractures and other very painful diseases. Even

then the cows are artifically inseminated to produce calves to ensure

regular supply of milk. The most unfortunate of the calves are male

calves who are considered to be useless and are sold off to be

butchered for veal or are just killed outright and disposed off.

 

After milking the cow till it has been exhausted and after ensuring

that the cow cannot yield anymore milk, it is sold off to be

slaughtered in the most brutal manner for meat and leather.

 

I request all bhaktas to please think about this, will our Lord

Pashupatinath ever accept our abhiseghams and Naivedhyams if it means

innocent animals are killed slowly and extemely painfully all their

lives?

 

Let us not act in an adharmic manner and perform unthinkable

atoricities and sins by offerring factory produced milk and milk

based products especially in our sacred rituals. I can only be

certain that we shall never suceed in our sadhana if it causes so

much needless pain for innocent animals.

 

We can however used alternative solutions, such as offering sugarcane

juice, fruit juice, coconut juice, turmeric water, saffron water,

camphor water, bael water, cardomum-clove water...... as cruelty free

abhishegams to Lord Siva.

 

I humbly pray and request all of us to please be aware of this very

cruel and sad situation of our " Go-matha " , and refrain from passively

encoraging this exploitation.

Sincerely,

 

Kamlesh

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Words of Wisdom I almost always offer Lord Siva unhomogenised full cream organic milk.This is readily available from local farmers where I live in England. Joy veryytterium <veryytterium wrote: namo narayanaDear all,The traditional way of worshipping Lord Siva on Mahashivarathri (especially) is to do abhishegham (abhishekha priya Sivan) to Him with auspicious substances like Milk, Curds, Ghee, Sugar etc.Before

the dawn of this exploitative factory farming age, our saints and seers used to procure Milk products in harmony with nature, the milk was taken from the cow only after the calf has had it's fill and the cow was worhipped as Go-matha. Such milk based abhiseghams are certainly pleasing to Lord Siva (who is also Lord Pashupathinatha- or the Lord of all living beings).However in the present age, factory produced milk is a very cruel exploitative product of torturing cattle. Indeed one can surely say that it would be less painful for the cow to be killed outright rather than to be enclosed in a tiny space, chained in its own waste in darkness, cold and filth for the rest of its life. It is pumped with insane amounts of hormones, and other toxic medications to artifically increase milk production. The large amounts of hormones, antibiotics and other unnatural feed, cause the cow to grow large and make it prone to bone

fractures and other very painful diseases. Even then the cows are artifically inseminated to produce calves to ensure regular supply of milk. The most unfortunate of the calves are male calves who are considered to be useless and are sold off to be butchered for veal or are just killed outright and disposed off.After milking the cow till it has been exhausted and after ensuring that the cow cannot yield anymore milk, it is sold off to be slaughtered in the most brutal manner for meat and leather.I request all bhaktas to please think about this, will our Lord Pashupatinath ever accept our abhiseghams and Naivedhyams if it means innocent animals are killed slowly and extemely painfully all their lives?Let us not act in an adharmic manner and perform unthinkable atoricities and sins by offerring factory produced milk and milk based products especially in our sacred rituals. I can only be certain that we

shall never suceed in our sadhana if it causes so much needless pain for innocent animals.We can however used alternative solutions, such as offering sugarcane juice, fruit juice, coconut juice, turmeric water, saffron water, camphor water, bael water, cardomum-clove water...... as cruelty free abhishegams to Lord Siva.I humbly pray and request all of us to please be aware of this very cruel and sad situation of our "Go-matha", and refrain from passively encoraging this exploitation. Sincerely,Kamlesh

 

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This is a very tricky issue, how will we change this world, the world is fast moving in a very negative direction, away from nature, humans are exploiting the nature to make quick money, but we do not have any choice to overcome this, we can do a small contribution to move away from this problem by using orgainc products (milk etc) but that is very little. Mahamuni Das <mahamuni wrote: There are enough farms and cows that are outside this insanity. Lets support those situations and still too

the traditional worship. JAI MAA! Surya - veryytterium Friday, February 22, 2008 9:39 PM Milk Abhishegams to Lord Siva namo narayanaDear all,The traditional way of worshipping Lord Siva on Mahashivarathri (especially) is to do abhishegham

(abhishekha priya Sivan) to Him with auspicious substances like Milk, Curds, Ghee, Sugar etc.Before the dawn of this exploitative factory farming age, our saints and seers used to procure Milk products in harmony with nature, the milk was taken from the cow only after the calf has had it's fill and the cow was worhipped as Go-matha. Such milk based abhiseghams are certainly pleasing to Lord Siva (who is also Lord Pashupathinatha- or the Lord of all living beings).However in the present age, factory produced milk is a very cruel exploitative product of torturing cattle. Indeed one can surely say that it would be less painful for the cow to be killed outright rather than to be enclosed in a tiny space, chained in its own waste in darkness, cold and filth for the rest of its life. It is pumped with insane amounts of hormones, and other toxic medications to artifically increase milk production. The large amounts

of hormones, antibiotics and other unnatural feed, cause the cow to grow large and make it prone to bone fractures and other very painful diseases. Even then the cows are artifically inseminated to produce calves to ensure regular supply of milk. The most unfortunate of the calves are male calves who are considered to be useless and are sold off to be butchered for veal or are just killed outright and disposed off.After milking the cow till it has been exhausted and after ensuring that the cow cannot yield anymore milk, it is sold off to be slaughtered in the most brutal manner for meat and leather.I request all bhaktas to please think about this, will our Lord Pashupatinath ever accept our abhiseghams and Naivedhyams if it means innocent animals are killed slowly and extemely painfully all their lives?Let us not act in an adharmic manner and perform unthinkable atoricities and sins by offerring

factory produced milk and milk based products especially in our sacred rituals. I can only be certain that we shall never suceed in our sadhana if it causes so much needless pain for innocent animals.We can however used alternative solutions, such as offering sugarcane juice, fruit juice, coconut juice, turmeric water, saffron water, camphor water, bael water, cardomum-clove water...... as cruelty free abhishegams to Lord Siva.I humbly pray and request all of us to please be aware of this very cruel and sad situation of our "Go-matha", and refrain from passively encoraging this exploitation. Sincerely,Kamlesh Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.20.9/1293 - Release 2/22/2008 9:21 AM

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