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Durga Puja Sacrifice

Sacrificial practises among different religions in the world

The practice of sacrifice is seen in the oldest records of the history of human civilization. The archaeological record contains human and animal corpses with sacrificial marks long before any written records of the practice. Animal sacrifice has turned up in almost all cultures, from the Hebrews to the Greeks, Romans, and Hindus, Ancient Egyptians (for example in the cult of Apis )and from the Aztecs to the Yoruba. Animal sacrifice is still practiced today by Muslims and Hindus and certain tribal communities.

 
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Islam

Generally, Islam makes no provision for animal sacrifice. However, it is considered to be obligatory upon sufficiently wealthy Muslims to sacrifice a large mammal during Eid ul-Adha (the Festival of Sacrifice), which falls during the period of Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca). Typically, a sheep or a goat is sacrificed, although some sacrifice cattle or a camel instead. The meat is usually given as charity to the poor, in commemoration of the Sacrifice of Ismail, in which God tested the faith of Abraham (Ibrahim) by ordering him to sacrifice his son Ishmael (Ismail).

 
 

Jainism & Buddhism

There is no instance of animal or human sacrifice in Jainism as well as Buddhism as the followers of these religions, practice ahimsha or non-violence towards any living organism. They believe that a good deed is always rewarded, the evil deed is punished. It is in the very nature of a good deed to produce reward. It is independent of any exterior factor, an outcome of the very potentiality of the good deed. Attaining the divine blessing is in no way connected to any sacrifice of living or non-living things for the Jains and the Buddhists.

 
 

Christianity & Zoroastrianism

Christianity and Zoroastrianism also do not encourage animal sacrifice or bloodshed as a part of their ritual.

Vedic Religion & Hinduism

In the Vedic religion gods are invoked by the hymns or mantras along with sacrifice/offering of ghee (clarified butter), grains, spices, soma and wood into a fire. The fire represents Agni, the divine messenger or an intermediary god who converts these offerings to the other gods. Animal sacrifice was not common in those days. Fire symbolises aspiration.
Originally sacrifice in Hinduism refers to personal surrender through acts of abandoning. A true sacrifice should be in the form of renouncing all earthly pleasures or desires. Men then would sacrifice the six inherent vices or cardinal passions of man, namely sex-passion, anger, greed, infatuation, vanity and envy.

 
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