Sadhguru: What beauty is to a woman, valor is to a man.
The rural youth of our country
have lost various aspects through which
they could find and express their courage, their skill and their competence in daily life.
Jallikattu, a traditional sport in rural Tamil Nadu,
was one sport, which gave the Tamil youth the necessary opportunity to express their valor,
to express their competence.
Above all, in today’s world,
Jallikattu has drawn rural youth away from alcohol and other addictions,
because being fit, capable, agile, and competent, becomes very important in a sport like this.
Never before has it happened, that the bulls which participate in the Jallikattu sport
have ever been harmed or killed.
If at all, if anybody bleeds, if anybody is injured, if at all, if a death happens, it’s that of a human being,
not of the bulls.
Those who are taking up this great cause of animal rights and cruelty to animals,
if at all, if they are serious about this,
first thing that they need to do is, close the slaughter houses which are killing millions of animals every day.
Instead of attending to the most fundamental form of cruelty, which is cutting short of an animal’s life,
not even for our food, but to export.
India has become the largest exporter of beef, which is a shame.
The animals which nurtured us, the animals which worked for us,
the animals which enriched our soil on a daily basis,
we are slaughtering them, not just for food, but to export and make money.
An animal whose milk we drank just as we drank our mother’s milk,
we are slaughtering it and sending it to other countries, this is a shame.
Instead of fighting against this, taking away a simple joy of the rural youth of Tamil Nadu is not fair.