Animal Welfare and Nature ; Hindu Scriptural Perspectives - Couverture souple

G. Naganathan

9788170594178: Animal Welfare and Nature ; Hindu Scriptural Perspectives

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 8170594170 ISBN 13 : 9788170594178

Editeur : The Theosophical Publishing House, 2000

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It gives me great pleasure to have the opportunity to write the introduction to this scholarly review of Hindu scriptures as they relate to our perception and treatment of Nature and fellow creatures. In these distressing times we find our inhumanity toward our own kind is matched only by our disrespect for the whole of Creation, by the desecration of the natural world, by the accelerating extinction of plant and animal species, and by institutionalized forms of cruel and unnecessary animal exploitation. All these are symptomatic, I believe, of a pathological condition of heart and mind that is in pan attributable not simply to the desperate poverty of the many and the insatiable greed of the few; but rather to an attitude toward and perception of other sentient beings that has neither respect for the sanctity of life nor reverence for the sacred unity and interdependence of all life. Long forgotten by the industrial and developing nations of today are the scriptural teachings of their respective religious and cultural traditions These are relevant today in helping us correctly identify and rectify the inhuman and inhumane conditions of the times. And they are especially relevant to the efforts of dedicated conservationists, humane educators, and animal protectionists to bring about a metancia, a change in attitude toward the nonhuman Creation. But how do we open the heart of humankind so that every soul may witness the wisdom of living in reverence for all of Nature’s Creation and see it as a way of life that is now as much a survival necessity as is a spiritual imperative?

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