nirvanablue@my-deja.com wrote:
>mantra 18.
>If a man desire a learned, famous public speaker, a sweetly-persuasive
>debater, able to chant ALL the Vedas and endowed with a full span of
>life, he and his wife should boil rice with MEAT, either VEAL or BEEF,
>and eat it with ghee. That may lead to the birth of such a son.
>
>The sexist remarks (which I totally disagree with) I did'nt leave out as
>I wanted all to see the full translation of these verses.
>
>Seems to be alot of references condoning eating MEAT in Vedic
>culture.....

Not to forget that Pandavas ate meat (when they were hiding with the
king Virata, Bhima was the butcher). Buddha ate meat, and Jesus as
well. And the final jewel to finish the harekrishnian attitude on
"cleanliness":
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Again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, "Listen to me, everyone,
and understand this. Nothing outside a man can make him `unclean' by
going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a man that makes him
`unclean.' [6]" After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his
disciples asked him about this parable. "Are you so dull?" he asked.
"Don't you see that nothing that enters a man from the outside can
make him `unclean'? For it doesn't go into his heart but into his
stomach, and then out of his body." (In saying this, Jesus declared
all foods "clean.") He went on: "What comes out of a man is what makes
him `unclean.' For from within, out of men's hearts, come evil
thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice,
deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils
come from inside and make a man `unclean.'" 
(Mk 7,14-23)
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There were people at his time, who were as concerned with the
"regulative principles" as are the Hare Krishna, and they were called
Pharisees. Enough said.

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