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It was civilisational and that too Hindu, or more appropriately Sanatan, that ensured survival of our wildlife.
West systematically hunted everything not of “value” for sport or pleasure or food.
West needs to “ape” India to ensure co habitation with nature.
In hindu mythology every animal is associated with a god.
Our ancestors had foresight to prevent man from destroying nature.
Thats why India still haw wildlife unlike Europe and North Africa and parts of America
Our ancestors knew that man would one day become strong and derive sadistic pleasure in killing animals
So to preserve nature they came up with the Idea of associating every animal with god
Not only that even rivers, mountains and trees were given god like status
The idea was to preserve nature
Kudos to our ancestors
Our ancestors had lots of foresight
If we read mythology, every god is associated with an animal as vahaan
Our ancestors knew that one day man will become powerful and derive sadistic pleasure in killing animals
So they came up with a unique idea of associating every animal with a god
So if one would try to hunt a tiger, it would remind of Goddess Durga
Like wise to all gods
Thats why India even today after thousands of years still has wild life
Kudos to our forefathers
They did not stop with animals but extended it to non living things like rivers,mountains and even trees
The main aim was to preserve the balance of nature and the ecosystem
We read mythology like a story but if we read between the lines we can understand how their foresight has preserved an maintained the balance of nature
Unlike in Afrika and America and Europe where the wild life has been badly affected and in some areas wiped out
The truth behind the minimal extinction of Animals in Indian subcontinent is our Hindu culture, which doesnot allow to hunt the animals, instead of hunting we have been taught to prey them respect them.
Approximately 500 years we are ruled by the Afghans,the Turkeys and then by Britishers for nearly 300 years. They tried immensely to wipe out Hinduism but the fact is Hinduism is not a religion its a thought, its a process, its by law itself. I Firmely belive to backing into The Vedas if we want to be a vishvaguru once again.
The British colonisers used to hunt wild animal as a sport, where some of their native sympathisers also participated. However since Hinduism has an element of nature worship, a large part of wildlife continue to survive despite rapid urbanisation across the subcontinent.
How stupid you people are !! We are discussing about our wild life and you people are talking shit about white people and religions .have some shame guys talk but sensible.. save our wild life and forest.. Then only we will survive.. stop this political things .
Amruta,
The guys you are snickering upon so stupidly are mostly talking about Indians coexisting harmoniously with wild animals. The western people have been living with domesticated animals for long, because of which those animals have survived to this day in those countries. Nothing special about that. It were the wild animals who being of no direct economic benefit to the westeners (or so they thought foolishly), were systematically exterminated by them along with their habitats, the forests. Our ancestors might not have had formal education, but they had the sense and samskars to live in harmony with nature and protect our flora and fauna for millennia. Unfortunately, the West is now learning their lessons and caring for nature, while we, including India haters and West apers like you, are slowly forgetting the very lessons we could have taught the world. Just try reading your scriptures and talking to your grandparents to realize how well we Indians (and for that matter, Hindus in partivular) were taught by our elders to take care of wild animals, plants, trees (lions and snakes included), with an innate understanding of the nature’s cycles. Being vegetarian, wherever feasible and affordable, is but just one small manifestation of our sages’ teachings. As the Yale study too points out, after all there must have been something special about Indians to result in long survivability of wild animals in India. Think, and thank your ancestors instead of making fun of your own civilization.
Totally! Subtle hint at ‘no hunting and butchering’. The way the sentence is structured demonstrated the writers believes colouring the article. Eg … The statement about hunting and butchering should have read, “though there has been no evidence of butchering or hunting so far, it is also true that there is no concerted effort to look for such evidences while the Indians tropical climate poses a challenge to preserve fossils.”
They are talking logical Hinduism is indeed great respect to every Vedas and scriptures by our dear caring ancestors
May be the yale university people don’t know that Indian hindus worship Elephants and Tigers and that is the cause of saving those animals from going extinct. Or may be they don’t want to accept this good contribution of hinduism knowingly.
No. I will not accept anything which is glorifying my past.
I am not a sangi. I would like to break Hindus as that is the best way to break India. Africans could be converted and made to fight bloody wars in the name of Christ and Allah because they did not have a common religion like Hinduism. So kill Hinduism and our last glory so Indians can start killing each other
Let me be right not just politically. Hindu religion and culture is inherently more evolved and understood unified existence and value of life. Abrahamic religions are immature, aggressive no respect for earth or other life and humans different from them and keen to wipe them out.
They are trying to succeed in India and our liberals will support them.
What is now this non sense on co evolution ? These people have only now accepted to respect fauna and flora, which as a culture have done it for thousands of years. But study won’t point to their faults openly, as is expected.
Anyway atleast they have finally evolved to give importance to ?.
Important findings but They are trying to connect it with Africa. India has very old & ancient cililization. Not only the Harrapa & Mohanzodaro It can be far more older than this. Now findings in Western Uttar Pradesh also indicating the same. The civilized and cultured life style from Ancient India believes in Co existence and minimal harm to animals. But Why Western researchers will accept or conclude that. In India There is mammoth of tasks are still waiting for unearthing and scientific studies throughout the India. A big part of India is also gone after British Colonization like Pakistan, Bangladesh & Afghanistan where It is nearly impossible to do any archeological research.
White skin domination is the biggest reason. Millions of Animals were slaughtered with a purpose of annihilating the belief systems of non-white-skin people was the main purpose.
Things have changed in the past 100 years, but it was a little too late.
Think about it, Hitler was inspired by the systematic removal of Native Americans.
Forcefully said but that’s true.
The British colonisers of India and their crawling, craven serfs – the myriad Rajahs and Mahararajahs of North India regularly shot anything they could in nauseatingly large numbers. Its a wonder that some survived.
Now they come as NGO’s to tell their gormer colonies about caring for their environment and how to conserve our wildlife.
Unfortunately there’s still no dearth of abjectly craven creatures who call themselves Indians who fawn and genuflect in front of them – for a condescending smile.
The whole evolutionary theory is that Modern humans in India can from Africa, which may not be true at all. India had ethnic population of humans in civilizations like Indus Valley and Harrappa. Europe and North America had already evolved different species of humans, the Neanderthals. And Neanderthals were much larger than humans and a far bigger threat to large mammals than humans. Mammoths could have hardly ever been hunted by Humans, but very likely by Neanderthals or Denisovans of Russia. Sadly, these aspects have never been considered. And the latest extinction of larges mammals has been in the last 500 years as WHITE EUROPEANS COLONIZED AMERICA-NORTH AND SOUTH AS WELL AS AUSTRALIA. The Tasmanian tiger went extinct a century ago, the Dodo, a couple of centuries ago in South East Asia, after the Dutch arrived there. Since the analysis is by WHITE EUROPEANS AND AMERICANS, THEY WILL OBVIOUSLY IGNORE THE CONTRIBUTION BY THEIR IMMEDIATE ANCESTORS IN THE EXTINCTION OF LARGE MAMMALS IN AMERICA, EUROPE AND AUSTRALIA AS WELL AS SOUTH EAST ASIA!!!
American Bison went extinct in North America because Christian colonisers entered, less than five hundred years ago, not during pre-history. One should remember that there are a significant number of pagans in Sub-Saharan Africa even to this day. Abrahamic religions teach that only humans have soul, other animals have no soul. Pagans beliefs are more complex and have respect for fauna and fora. Even when pagans have gods, they still respect nature, unlike the Abrahamic ones. This work is from people Abrahamic faiths, so one cannot expect them to look into this aspect.
Suggest, don’t use the bad word of the Christians” pagan”.It is as bad a word of the Muslims calling a non believers as “Kafir”.
In both the above cited cases, the Pagan, & the Kafir can be killed.
This kind of fellows are everywhere on internet now. Their comments are just evil and nauseating. They are not Hindus, just communal bigots sans education.
To say that ones religious and philosophical beliefs affect human lifestyle and societies’ impact on the environment isn’t bigotry. All religions are not equal, they are just treated equally by the secular state machinery. Instead when you tale upon yourself the responsibility of seeing unequal ideologies as equal, that’s when you start deluding yourself…
I just learn a correct statement after so many commentary about secularism.
It was civilisational and that too Hindu, or more appropriately Sanatan, that ensured survival of our wildlife.
West systematically hunted everything not of “value” for sport or pleasure or food.
West needs to “ape” India to ensure co habitation with nature.
In hindu mythology every animal is associated with a god.
Our ancestors had foresight to prevent man from destroying nature.
Thats why India still haw wildlife unlike Europe and North Africa and parts of America
Our ancestors knew that man would one day become strong and derive sadistic pleasure in killing animals
So to preserve nature they came up with the Idea of associating every animal with god
Not only that even rivers, mountains and trees were given god like status
The idea was to preserve nature
Kudos to our ancestors
Our ancestors had lots of foresight
If we read mythology, every god is associated with an animal as vahaan
Our ancestors knew that one day man will become powerful and derive sadistic pleasure in killing animals
So they came up with a unique idea of associating every animal with a god
So if one would try to hunt a tiger, it would remind of Goddess Durga
Like wise to all gods
Thats why India even today after thousands of years still has wild life
Kudos to our forefathers
They did not stop with animals but extended it to non living things like rivers,mountains and even trees
The main aim was to preserve the balance of nature and the ecosystem
We read mythology like a story but if we read between the lines we can understand how their foresight has preserved an maintained the balance of nature
Unlike in Afrika and America and Europe where the wild life has been badly affected and in some areas wiped out
Hindus are the reason indian wild life exists today, mainly coz of These wild beings
The truth behind the minimal extinction of Animals in Indian subcontinent is our Hindu culture, which doesnot allow to hunt the animals, instead of hunting we have been taught to prey them respect them.
Approximately 500 years we are ruled by the Afghans,the Turkeys and then by Britishers for nearly 300 years. They tried immensely to wipe out Hinduism but the fact is Hinduism is not a religion its a thought, its a process, its by law itself. I Firmely belive to backing into The Vedas if we want to be a vishvaguru once again.
The British colonisers used to hunt wild animal as a sport, where some of their native sympathisers also participated. However since Hinduism has an element of nature worship, a large part of wildlife continue to survive despite rapid urbanisation across the subcontinent.
How stupid you people are !! We are discussing about our wild life and you people are talking shit about white people and religions .have some shame guys talk but sensible.. save our wild life and forest.. Then only we will survive.. stop this political things .
Amruta,
The guys you are snickering upon so stupidly are mostly talking about Indians coexisting harmoniously with wild animals. The western people have been living with domesticated animals for long, because of which those animals have survived to this day in those countries. Nothing special about that. It were the wild animals who being of no direct economic benefit to the westeners (or so they thought foolishly), were systematically exterminated by them along with their habitats, the forests. Our ancestors might not have had formal education, but they had the sense and samskars to live in harmony with nature and protect our flora and fauna for millennia. Unfortunately, the West is now learning their lessons and caring for nature, while we, including India haters and West apers like you, are slowly forgetting the very lessons we could have taught the world. Just try reading your scriptures and talking to your grandparents to realize how well we Indians (and for that matter, Hindus in partivular) were taught by our elders to take care of wild animals, plants, trees (lions and snakes included), with an innate understanding of the nature’s cycles. Being vegetarian, wherever feasible and affordable, is but just one small manifestation of our sages’ teachings. As the Yale study too points out, after all there must have been something special about Indians to result in long survivability of wild animals in India. Think, and thank your ancestors instead of making fun of your own civilization.
Totally! Subtle hint at ‘no hunting and butchering’. The way the sentence is structured demonstrated the writers believes colouring the article. Eg … The statement about hunting and butchering should have read, “though there has been no evidence of butchering or hunting so far, it is also true that there is no concerted effort to look for such evidences while the Indians tropical climate poses a challenge to preserve fossils.”
They are talking logical Hinduism is indeed great respect to every Vedas and scriptures by our dear caring ancestors
May be the yale university people don’t know that Indian hindus worship Elephants and Tigers and that is the cause of saving those animals from going extinct. Or may be they don’t want to accept this good contribution of hinduism knowingly.
Our British overlords tried their best to wipe out Indian wild life by over hunting. Luckily they did not succeed.
No. I will not accept anything which is glorifying my past.
I am not a sangi. I would like to break Hindus as that is the best way to break India. Africans could be converted and made to fight bloody wars in the name of Christ and Allah because they did not have a common religion like Hinduism. So kill Hinduism and our last glory so Indians can start killing each other
The largest mammals in fact live in the USA: Obese Americans gulping down their disgusting McDonalds
Let me be right not just politically. Hindu religion and culture is inherently more evolved and understood unified existence and value of life. Abrahamic religions are immature, aggressive no respect for earth or other life and humans different from them and keen to wipe them out.
They are trying to succeed in India and our liberals will support them.
What is now this non sense on co evolution ? These people have only now accepted to respect fauna and flora, which as a culture have done it for thousands of years. But study won’t point to their faults openly, as is expected.
Anyway atleast they have finally evolved to give importance to ?.
Important findings but They are trying to connect it with Africa. India has very old & ancient cililization. Not only the Harrapa & Mohanzodaro It can be far more older than this. Now findings in Western Uttar Pradesh also indicating the same. The civilized and cultured life style from Ancient India believes in Co existence and minimal harm to animals. But Why Western researchers will accept or conclude that. In India There is mammoth of tasks are still waiting for unearthing and scientific studies throughout the India. A big part of India is also gone after British Colonization like Pakistan, Bangladesh & Afghanistan where It is nearly impossible to do any archeological research.
Very interesting article. Thanks.
White skin domination is the biggest reason. Millions of Animals were slaughtered with a purpose of annihilating the belief systems of non-white-skin people was the main purpose.
Things have changed in the past 100 years, but it was a little too late.
Think about it, Hitler was inspired by the systematic removal of Native Americans.
@sandya ramesh
good job 🙂
Forcefully said but that’s true.
The British colonisers of India and their crawling, craven serfs – the myriad Rajahs and Mahararajahs of North India regularly shot anything they could in nauseatingly large numbers. Its a wonder that some survived.
Now they come as NGO’s to tell their gormer colonies about caring for their environment and how to conserve our wildlife.
Unfortunately there’s still no dearth of abjectly craven creatures who call themselves Indians who fawn and genuflect in front of them – for a condescending smile.
The whole evolutionary theory is that Modern humans in India can from Africa, which may not be true at all. India had ethnic population of humans in civilizations like Indus Valley and Harrappa. Europe and North America had already evolved different species of humans, the Neanderthals. And Neanderthals were much larger than humans and a far bigger threat to large mammals than humans. Mammoths could have hardly ever been hunted by Humans, but very likely by Neanderthals or Denisovans of Russia. Sadly, these aspects have never been considered. And the latest extinction of larges mammals has been in the last 500 years as WHITE EUROPEANS COLONIZED AMERICA-NORTH AND SOUTH AS WELL AS AUSTRALIA. The Tasmanian tiger went extinct a century ago, the Dodo, a couple of centuries ago in South East Asia, after the Dutch arrived there. Since the analysis is by WHITE EUROPEANS AND AMERICANS, THEY WILL OBVIOUSLY IGNORE THE CONTRIBUTION BY THEIR IMMEDIATE ANCESTORS IN THE EXTINCTION OF LARGE MAMMALS IN AMERICA, EUROPE AND AUSTRALIA AS WELL AS SOUTH EAST ASIA!!!
American Bison went extinct in North America because Christian colonisers entered, less than five hundred years ago, not during pre-history. One should remember that there are a significant number of pagans in Sub-Saharan Africa even to this day. Abrahamic religions teach that only humans have soul, other animals have no soul. Pagans beliefs are more complex and have respect for fauna and fora. Even when pagans have gods, they still respect nature, unlike the Abrahamic ones. This work is from people Abrahamic faiths, so one cannot expect them to look into this aspect.
Suggest, don’t use the bad word of the Christians” pagan”.It is as bad a word of the Muslims calling a non believers as “Kafir”.
In both the above cited cases, the Pagan, & the Kafir can be killed.
This kind of fellows are everywhere on internet now. Their comments are just evil and nauseating. They are not Hindus, just communal bigots sans education.
To say that ones religious and philosophical beliefs affect human lifestyle and societies’ impact on the environment isn’t bigotry. All religions are not equal, they are just treated equally by the secular state machinery. Instead when you tale upon yourself the responsibility of seeing unequal ideologies as equal, that’s when you start deluding yourself…
I just learn a correct statement after so many commentary about secularism.