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georgia
georgia
the brahmins who began with sacrificing many animals to the devas began to frown on this practice as selfish (reward-seeking) and violent, and began to prefer sacrifices of rice, flowers, leaves, water, things like that. in the bhagavad gita sacrifice is reframed as any action done for God, not as being reward-seeking, and the sacrifice of knowledge is seen as the highest sacrifice of all. any deed done reverently without selfishness becomes nishkama karma.
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subsistence hunting just like animal sacrifice can be sinful based on the mind of the person.
a selfish hunter thinks "I am stronger and smarter than this animal, therefore its life is naturally mine, I will enjoy its tasty flesh"
a reverent hunter thinks "to live another day I must hunt and kill this sacred animal, I will thank higher power(s) for this sacred transaction. my life is inextricable from all life and all life is holy."
a selfish hunter thinks "I am stronger and smarter than this animal, therefore its life is naturally mine, I will enjoy its tasty flesh"
a reverent hunter thinks "to live another day I must hunt and kill this sacred animal, I will thank higher power(s) for this sacred transaction. my life is inextricable from all life and all life is holy."
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✨ Starlight 
Starlight@social.xenofem.me
@georgia There's a wide gap between these two hunters, but I believe that even the sinful hunter who does it to ego trip has a cleaner slate than the self proclaimed animal lovers who fuel the torment nexus that is factory farming. The gap between the two hunters is smaller than the gap between either and the average consumer.
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@Starlight factory farming is such a horrible abomination
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