Vegetarianism

Care and respect for animals is the sign of an advanced society. Animals are conscious living beings just as we are and all efforts should be taken to care for them and serve them. In today's world animals form part of the diet for the majority of our planet, besides the poor effects on health, it does not allow us to respect nature's creations by considering them only as food and the starting point for respect and love for all animals is vegetarianism. A vegetarian diet is more healthy (this has been scientifically proven in various recent studies) and creates a more peaceful and less violent society. Learn how to eat a balanced and wholesome vegetarian diet and begin your journey to treading softly this lifetime so as not to cause harm to anyone or anything which is one of the first principals of higher living. Ahimsa or non violent living is a principal as old as time, our world is shimmering with violence in every corner and starting with your diet and making it become a non-violent and non-killing diet is the best way to light a candle of peace for the world.

Vedic Society through our research with Ayurveda and Diet is publishing various guides to eating a healthy balanced vegetarian diet. You can also find a variety of cookbooks at our online store Vedic Books which give a ancient and complete perspective of complete and balanced nutrition. Today each month there is a new fad diet but Ayurvedic eating guidelines are no fad, they have been timetested and are based on obersvations of nature at it's finest level. For insights into the underlying philosophy of vegetariansm read the excellent books Diet for Trancendence by Stephen Rosen or Divine Nature by Michael Cremo. Both are thoroughly researched and will shed a deep spiritual insight into vegetarianism.

Ayurveda for Animals

Ayurveda has long had specialists in natural animal medicine, even in Sanskrit there are special titles for doctors of Cows, Elephants, Horses and other animals indicating a specific branch of Ayurvedic speciality. The same medicines that remove disease through balance and purification in humans work in animals under the same universal principals of nature. At Vedic Society it is our wish to make Ayurveda available for animals worldwide through our online Ayurvedic project Madanapalas (named of an ancient benevolent king of ancient India). We have an entire section devoted to Ayurvedic medicines for animals at Madanapalas. We are also in the process of establishing an animal rescue project in Nepal and it will be under the expert guidence of an Ayurvedic Vet who will be using Ayurvedic preparations to treat the injured and infirm animals.

Himalayan Cow Project

Driving back late one night from Kathmandu to Bhaktapur we found an injured baby cow on the road that had been struck by a motorcycle. Her leg was broken and there in the midnight air we called around to police and all other authorities trying to find a service that could take care of injured cows. There was nothing.

Thus was borne a Vedic Society project for Nepal to establish a cow rescue service which would be available 24 hours a day and where injured cows could be suitably treated. After forming the concept, the right person to run it was the missing link and on meeting with an emminent Vaidya (Ayurvedic doctor) in Kathmandu, we discovered that his son was an Ayurvedic vet and very much had a similar dream to take care of injured animals, particularly cows. The project is presently in planing phase and awaiting sufficient funding to be formally established. A small piece of land will be acquired on the outskirts of Kathmandu where the project will be setup. Approximatly $15,000 per annum are needed to run the project. Animals will be treated mostly according to Ayurvedic principals. Anyone wishing to volunteer or otherwise support this project is welcome to. More information will be published shortly on the projects own website which is presently under development. 

Kishore and his wife who will run our cow rescue project.