To the Respected Authorities, Temple Committees, and Devotees,

I humbly request your kind attention to an important matter of compassion and true spirituality.

Across many parts of India, rituals involving animal sacrifice are still being carried out in the name of religion.

🐾 Why We Should Not Sacrifice or Kill Animal---

✨ Because They Have Souls Too ✨

Animals are not objects. They are living beings with feelings, fear, love, and pain—just like us. They may not speak our language, but they feel everything.

 

🌿 1. Animals Have Souls

According to Sanatan Dharma and many Hindu scriptures, all living beings—including animals—have Atman (soul).

 

The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 5, Verse 18) says:

> “The humble sage sees with equal vision a brahmana, a cow, an elephant, a dog, and a dog-eater.”

This means: a wise person sees the same divine spark in all beings—human or animal.

 

💔 2. They Feel Pain Just Like Us

When an animal is killed or sacrificed, it cries, trembles, and feels terror—just as a human would.

What if someone held you or your child and offered them to God? Would it feel right?

Then how can it be right for a helpless animal?

 

🌍 3. Killing for Taste or Ritual Is Not Justified

Many people eat animals for taste, not need.

We have so many plant-based foods available. No one needs to die for our tongue's pleasure.

 

Similarly, killing an animal in the name of a ritual doesn’t make it sacred—it makes it cruel.

 

🕊️ 4. True Religion Is Compassion

No true God, no divine being, no enlightened master has ever said:

"Kill My Creation to Please Me."

They say:> "Love all beings. Serve the poor. Protect the weak."

Animal sacrifice is the opposite of divine worship.

 

🙏 5. As Humans, We Must Be Their Voice

Humans are given intelligence and conscience—not to exploit, but to protect.

If animals had a voice, they would beg:  “I want to live too.”

So let’s be that voice. Let’s stand up for the voiceless.

 

✋ Say No to Sacrifice. Say Yes to Compassion.

 

Let’s create a world where no being suffers in the name of God.

📜 Scriptural Truth:

1. Bhagavad Gita – Chapter 9, Verse 26:

 

> "If one offers Me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, fruit or water, I will accept it." This divine verse makes it clear: God accepts offerings of love, not violence.

2. Principle of Ahimsa (Non-violence): Ahimsa is the foundation of Dharma. Killing innocent animals for any ritual goes against the very soul of our faith.

3. Saints and Reformers like Swami Vivekananda, Mahatma Gandhi, and Sant Kabir have all condemned animal sacrifice and emphasized that true worship is through compassion, love, and service to others.

4. The Upanishads, the Ramcharitmanas, and many Puranas ultimately stress inner purity, not outer rituals involving bloodshed.

🙏 My Request:

I urge you to stop animal sacrifices in temples, villages, and fairs. Let us instead promote:

 

Offerings of fruits, flowers, and prayers,

Feeding the poor and animals,

Acts of seva (service) and kindness.

 

Let our temples be places of peace, not pain..

Sincerely,

Dimple mishra 

Lado Sarai New Delhi 

 

In Hindi ---

आदरणीय मंदिर समिति, प्रशासन और श्रद्धालुओं से विनम्र निवेदन,

 

मैं करुणा और सच्ची आध्यात्मिकता के एक महत्वपूर्ण विषय पर आपका ध्यान आकर्षित करना चाहता/चाहती हूं।

भारत के कई हिस्सों में आज भी धार्मिक परंपराओं के नाम पर पशु बलि दी जा रही है। 

 

📜 शास्त्रों की साक्षी:

 

1. भगवद गीता – अध्याय 9, श्लोक 26:

 

> “पत्रं पुष्पं फलं तोयं यो मे भक्त्या प्रयच्छति। तदहं भक्त्युपहृतम् अश्नामि प्रयतात्मनः॥”

इसका अर्थ: "अगर कोई भक्त मुझे प्रेमपूर्वक पत्ता, फूल, फल या जल अर्पित करता है, तो मैं उसे स्वीकार करता हूं।"

यह स्पष्ट करता है कि ईश्वर प्रेम से अर्पित वस्तु को स्वीकार करते हैं, हिंसा से नहीं।

2. अहिंसा का सिद्धांत: अहिंसा सनातन धर्म की मूल आत्मा है। किसी निरपराध जीव की बलि देना धर्म के विरुद्ध है।

3. स्वामी विवेकानंद, महात्मा गांधी, संत कबीर जैसे संतों ने हमेशा पशु बलि का विरोध किया और कहा कि सच्ची पूजा दया, प्रेम और सेवा से होती है।

4. उपनिषदों, रामचरितमानस और पुराणों में भी आंतरिक शुद्धता पर ज़ोर दिया गया है, न कि रक्त से भरे क्रियाकलापों पर।

🙏 मेरा निवेदन:

मैं आपसे आग्रह करती हू कि मंदिरों, मेलों और गांवों में होने वाली पशु बलियों को रोका जाए और इनकी जगह:

-फल, फूल और जल से पूजा की जाए,

-ग़रीबों को भोजन कराएं,

-और सेवा, दया व करुणा को पूजा का माध्यम बनाया जाए।

आइए हम अपने मंदिरों को शांति के स्थल बनाएं, पीड़ा के नहीं।

सादर, 

डिम्पल मिश्रा 

लाडो सराय न्यू दिल्ली