Just came across interesting stats, which I will reproduce for your beneficial discomfort:
- More than 27 billion animals are killed for food every year in the U.S. alone
- As many as 115 million animals are experimented on and killed in laboratories in the U.S. every year
- Every year, the global leather industry slaughters more than a billion animals and tans their skins and hides
- Livestock production causes 18% more greenhouse gas than transport
By virtue of our Connection, I presume most who read this don't contribute to the first statistic. Don't know enough to comment on the second, as arguments swing both ways... apropos Medical experimentation. But what about the cosmetic industry? And your favourite leather wallet with the Mont Blanc (Made in China) star on top? I have personally seen videos of a PETA raid on a cosmetic industry 'lab' many years back. The cosmetic industry is exemplary in the steps it will take to assure you that your lip is stuck well, and without allergy. But you can be sure that the acid-burned eyes of those rabbits and the blood of the monkeys are on your hands, rather, on your confident lips. Such are the ways of the Lord. My leather wallet will, no doubt, add to my karmic debt.
I remember also, when our ex-Animal Welfare Convenor (born Catholic, raised meat-eater, taught only-Jesus, current permanent resident of Puttaparthi) talked about shunning silk, the elite ladies of our organization practically shunned her. Convenience is never conviction. A revolution in reformation does not start with someone else.
"Many yogis, however, wear garments of silk, which preserves certain subtle bodily currents better than cotton" said Paramhansa Yogananda in Autobiography of a Yogi
ReplyDeleteSilk has an especially high electromagnetic charge. Silk is the fabric for emotional and physical healing. During illness when our auras are scattered, Silk helps bring some order to it. ( A glass of Milk and a mile of Silk will cure any disease away!)
Meditation is very beneficial with Silk. Sandhya prayer are supposed to be done in Silk by Brahmins (I have one which I have was given at the time of my thread wearing cermenony- That I wear silk more than do Sandhya is a different issue)
The Silk of the women worn on the first night with her spouse is supposedly one of most sacred silk fabric for a Hindu women- supposedly much more sacred than even the one worn during marriage. which marriage is conducted. Such silk cloth should never be washed or drycleaned. Purity is more important than hygeine
Swamy wears Silk
So the elite women of our organisation, please do not feel guilty on wearing silk!!! Convenience is spiritually benficial!
The few billion moths we kill on our way to spiritual, meditative and physical amnesia is worth the cause. It is the payback time of our Karma when we as silk worms gave up our lives for those draped their bodies with our saliva!
( Now I am going to do the exact opposite of what I have preached above-a reflection of the fraternity I belong to
Are there any places where we can get Ahimsa Silk in Dubai?-
Nalli's- or Pothy's worth a try?)