Sacrifice or Killing, in the name of God

Animal sacrifice in Hindu religion

Two pale, apathetic eyes are reflecting fear, have no interest to eat his favorite peepal leaves any more, after seeing the bodies of his types coming out from a gathering of noise and smoke. Then his master starts pulling his belt to make him reach to the water, for the finest bath in his entire life, but he is screaming and resisting with his full power, which is very little, though try to resist while bathing, through the roadway to temple. And while standing in the queue his legs are trembling in fear, his eyes are witnessing the most horror scene in his life. During the puja (worship) dedicated to him, he made some failure attempts to run away. This finally ends with the steel and his last sound resembled with a great noise created by the humans and then everything goes dark.

Mantras for Meditation

Meditation is the most effective way to be refreshed and get rid of stress of our busy life schedule. Now there is various procedure of meditation, based on different cultures, amongst them repeating a mantra is one of the perfect as well as easily adoptable process of meditation.

Mantra is described in Sanskrit as “Manana trayate iti mantra” and mantra is the principle thing to pursue any Hindu ritualistic practices. Also there are certain directions to chant these mantras, such as sitting in some specific meditative postures (Asana) and forming various hand-gestures (Mudra).

Hindus are not only idol worshipers, but also worshiper of Nature.

Followers of different religion pose a common question, why so many Gods are there in Hindu religion?

The answer will be, the Hindus worship the Nature, so they worship almost everything. The nature is the source of life, so the Hindus devotes to each and every source of energy in some real as well as hypothetical forms, as per their faith. Now if we discuss about the various Gods of Hinduism, we can find that, those Gods are the power over nature or human fortunes, formed accordingly, as per the time period.

The Vedas refer to 33 Koti (type and family) of Devatas and it is described in Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (Chapter 3 as a conversation between Śākalya and Sage Yājñavalkya). It says that there are 33 devas, they are 8 Vasu, 11 Rudra, 12 Aditya, 1 Indra and 1 Prajapati (33 devas) in the celestial world, in terms to performance of yagnas.