Acharya Prashant Interviewed By Kip Andersen (#Christspiracy) || Religion And Animals

Questioner: Can we discuss how religion and animals come into play and things; that you like to talk about, how animals are treated and things that you like to share with people when you talk about animals and say religion and things of Hindu, can you share things?

How to understand religions, the treatment of animals and the role play in religion?

Acharya Prashant: When you say religions, just for the sake of the conversation, I would want to divide them into two streams, one the Abrahamic stream and the other the Indian one. So, the Judeo-Christian view is that God has dominion over man, and man has dominion over animals. Something similar also comes up in the third Abrahamic religion, Islam, which talks about Allah having created all the animals, fish, insects for the sake of man. And then there is the view of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, which talk of ahimsa, ekatva, which is non-violence, oneness.

But I’m not really convinced that when we use the word “religion,” we must really talk of the view that organized religions take of this matter. The moment religion is organized, it becomes something man-made. So, I’ll take your question to mean that we want to talk about religion, religion as such. Man, animals, man’s inner world, and man’s relationship with the so-called outer world, including animals.