The Hypocrisy of Animal Fat in Tirupati Laddus
HYPOCRISY TO THE CORE!
Podcast (Please read and play the Podcast for a better understanding of the topic)
I was appalled and, at the same time, amused by the news of animal fat being found in the laddus sold in Tirupati!
Animal fats can be categorised as milk fats, rendered fats, and fish oils (marine oils). The main representative of milk fats is the fat from cow’s milk (milk fat, butter fat, butter oil). All other milks are of almost no importance as far as their fats are concerned.
As a pure vegan, I can say that this is another case of typical Indian hypocrisy. Many people, blinded by traditions, complain about animal fat but consume ghee. Where do they think that fat comes from? From plants? Ghee comes from the secretion, often containing pus, of bovine animals, which secrete it for their own young ones and not for fully grown adults of a different species!
Is there any other species that drinks mammary secretions in adulthood? Not even bulls do. And more so from another species! Indians are accustomed to a lot of nonsense in the name of ridiculous traditions. This stems from a lack of knowledge.
People don’t have time to spend three hours reading a copy of the Srimad Bhagavad Gita and reflecting on the supreme knowledge it offers, but when it comes to following family traditions blindly, they do so without asking a single question!
In Chapter 1, Arjuna talks about family traditions being lost, and Krishna does not even consider it something worth discussing. In Chapter 4, Krishna tells Arjuna in so many words to ask questions and get answers. He never advocated blindly following meaningless traditions.
Krishna, in Shloka SBG 9:26 says:
पत्रं पुष्पं फलं तोयं यो मे भक्त्या प्रयच्छति |
तदहं भक्त्युपहृतमश्नामि प्रयतात्मनः || ९ २६ ||
patram pushpam phalam toyam
yo me bhaktyaa prayacchati
tadaham bhaktyu-pahritam-
ashnaami praya-taat-manaha (SBG 9:26)
“I accept whatever is offered to Me with devotion and a pure heart. It could be a leaf, a flower, a fruit or a little water.” HE DID NOT SAY: STEAL A CALF’S BABY FOOD AND POUR IT ON ME!
Have you ever considered the plight of the poor cows kept in horrifying conditions, their milk taken from them? When they deliver male calves, the poor little chaps are sent straight to the slaughterhouse to be killed and their tender meat used for something else, all because they will not give milk! And these vegetarians think they are absolved of all the brutal murders done to these animals just because their meaningless traditions tell them they should consume animal milk?
IF YOU STAY SILENT ABOUT A CRIME BEING COMMITTED, YOU ARE COMPLICIT IN IT.
Watch the videos below that I published some time ago, and help your conscience come out after being shrouded for so long under ignorance. That’s called evolution.
Ten things you should know about dairy…
All confused or pseudo-devotees of Krishna, please remember that YOU ARE THAT, and so is everything and every being!
No! No creature was created for you to steal its baby food or kill and eat it!
SBG 13:27 (or 28 in some editions)
समं सर्वेषु भूतेषु तिष्ठन्तं परमेश्वरम् |
विनश्यत्स्वविनश्यन्तं यः पश्यति स पश्यति || १३ २७ ||
samam sarveshu bhooteshu
tisht-hantam parameshvaram
vinashyatsva-vinashyantam
yah pashyati sa pashyati
(SBG 13:27)
The person who truly sees is the one who sees the Paramatma or Supreme Self, existing equally in all beings – the unperishing within the perishing.
The All-pervading SELF – YOU!
There was a man called ‘Agyani’, who ‘lost himself’ and set out to ‘find himself’!
Don’t waste your time looking for yourself outside your subjective awareness! That is impossible! Contemplate yourself! Because that is the path towards Atmagnyaana – the Highest Achievement possible!
Tavamithram Sarvada 