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Sri R K P- – Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (RKP)
One of the famous poets of the Rig Veda is Vamadeva. When he was hungry, he ate dog’s meat. Tami poem says that when one gets hungry ten virtues will disappear. So, it is normally interpreted as the pain of hunger. But Vamadeva was a great saint. Vamadeva (Sanskrit: वामदेव, Vāmadeva) rishi (sage) is credited as the author of Mandala 4 of the Rigveda. He is mentioned prominently in the Upanishads as well, particularly the Brihadaranyaka and the Aitareya.
Manu Smrti refers to Vamadeva and dog meat in 10-106 on the basis of Rig Veda
Rig Veda 4.18.13
अव॑र्त्या॒ शुन॑ आ॒न्त्राणि॑ पेचे॒ न दे॒वेषु॑ विविदे मर्डि॒तार॑म् । अप॑श्यं जा॒यामम॑हीयमाना॒मधा॑ मे श्ये॒नो मध्वा ज॑भार ॥
अवर्त्या शुन आन्त्राणि पेचे न देवेषु विविदे मर्डितारम् । अपश्यं जायाममहीयमानामधा मे श्येनो मध्वा जभार ॥
avartyā śuna āntrāṇi pece na deveṣu vivide marḍitāram | apaśyaṃ jāyām amahīyamānām adhā me śyeno madhv ā jabhāra ||
English translation:
“In extreme destitution I have cooked the entrails of a dog; I have not found a comforter among the gods; I have beheld my wife disrespected; then the falcon, (Indra), has brought to me sweet water.” (Amruta)
Commentary by Sāyaṇa: Ṛgveda-bhāṣya
In extreme destitutuin: So Manu has, Vāmadeva, who well knew right and wrong, was by no means rendered impure, though desirous when oppressed with hunger, of eating the flesh of dogs for the preservation of his life; icchan attum, wishing ot eat; the text has śuno āntrāṇi pece, I cooked the entrails of a dog; the falcon: i.e., as swift as a hawk, śyena vat śīghragāmīndraḥ; Sūkta 18: Ṛṣi vāmadeva, while yet in the womb, was reluctant to be born and chose to come into the world through his mother’s side; (Caesarean Operation) aware of his purpose, the mother prayed to Aditi, who thereupon came, with her son Indra, to expostulate with the Ṛṣi; this is the subject of the Sūkta
Here Caesarean Operation of Vamadeva’s mother is mentioned
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South Korean’s eat one million dogs every year.
Anecdote from Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (RKP)
Saint who ate with a dog!
by Swaminathan
Post No 872 Date: 27th February 2014
Many of the Western translators show us only the one side of the coin. We may get another interpretation from Sri R K P’s anecdote It is in the book Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna . For saints like Vamadeva body is a worn out clothe. Bhagavdgita described it as Vasaamsi Jeernaani
वासांसि जीर्णानि यथा विहाय
नवानि गृह्णाति नरोऽपराणि |
तथा शरीराणि विहाय जीर्णा
न्यन्यानि संयाति नवानि देही || 2-22||
vāsānsi jīrṇāni yathā vihāya
navāni gṛihṇāti naro ’parāṇi
tathā śharīrāṇi vihāya jīrṇānya
nyāni sanyāti navāni dehī
As a person sheds worn-out garments and wears new ones, likewise, at the time of death, the soul casts off its worn-out body and enters a new one. B.G.2-22
Sri R K P himself narrates how he behaved when he practised various methods in the religious books. He also adds the saints behave like mad men, sometimes like children. We see it in Adi Shankara’s Viveka Chudamani as well.
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From “Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna”, Sri Ramakrishna Math, Mylapore, Chennai.
“Once a god intoxicated Sadhu (saint) came to Rani Rasmani’s Kali temple where the Master was living. One day he did not get any food; and even though feeling hungry, he did not ask anybody for it; but seeing the dog eating the remnants of food thrown away in a corner after a feast, he went there and embracing the dog said, “Brother, how is it that you eat alone without giving me a share?” So , saying, he began to eat along with the dog. Having finished his meal in this strange company, the sage entered the temple of Mother Kali and prayed with such earnestness of devotion as it sent a thrill through the temple. When after finishing his prayers, he was going away, the Master (Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa) asked his nephew Hriday, to follow that man, and talk with him.
When Hriday followed him for some distance, the sage turned around and said, “Why do you follow me?” Hriday replied, “Sir, give me some instruction”. The sage said, “When the water of this dirty ditch and the Holy Ganges yonder appear as one in your sight, and when the sound of the flageolet (musical instrument) and the noise of the crowd will have no distinction to your ear, then you will reach the state of true Knowledge. A Siddha roams in various disguises – as a child, as an unclean spirit, or even as a mad man”.—Sri Ramakrishna
—Subham—
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