Just now sent a long e-mail to Sudarsan, basically agreeing with his concern on atrocities of humans on other living beings. Though I am a vegetarian, I am not at all against animal consumption. I understand the inevitability of circle of life. But I am against cruelty to animals (e.g., using them for lab testing and killing them for recreational purposes). In spite of this conviction, while typing the e-mail, I recollected that most of us (including yours truly) have been endorsing this cruelty passively. I will share the content of the e-mail later, hopefully on receiving some healthy criticism. These thoughts made me remember this well-known and soothing prayer.
God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him
Forever in the next.
Amen.
--Reinhold Niebuhr
Random Quote:
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. - Samuel Butler
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Man eats animals, God(dess) eats Man. Check this vision of Sri Ramakrishna: (pp. 21-22 of the Introduction in The Gospel)
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He had a vision of the divine Maya, the inscrutable Power of God, by which the universe is created and sustained, and into which it is finally absorbed. In this vision he saw a woman of exquisite beauty, about to become a mother, emerging from the Ganges and slowly approaching the Panchavati. Presently she gave birth to a child and began to nurse it tenderly. A moment later she assumed a terrible aspect, seized the child with her grim jaws, and crushed it. Swallowing it, she re-entered the waters of the Ganges.
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Heh.
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