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Confused piaare jio!

You always are so meticulous in your analysis and I am not in your league. But my point was very simple. Someone had to kill the deer before it was cooked an eaten, unless we are entertaining a scenario where it was cooked alive. I cannot walk in the shadow of Guru Nanak. But if someone offered m e a carcass, and said, "Cut it up, freeze it, you have meat for a  year. All you have to do is light the grill" ... as a vegetarian I would say, "No. Does it matter who killed it, me or you" In fact that is a governing principle in my life... I don't eat meat or fish. So I can only conclude that Guru Nanak had a different take on this issue. He was willing to offer the deer's meat to his sangat for food.

I need to add two things.

1. The discussion of meat in this thread continually shifts away from the point of the shabad from which the words, Fools Who Wrangle over Flesh, is but one part of a single verse. The shabad is a serious exploration of the crookedness of the rich and powerful. Flesh is but a symbol of their rotten influence and the corruption of power. Fools Who Wrangle over Flesh digs to a deeper meaning than these 4 words suggest. Sometimes it is necessary to go back to the moral lessons of the shabad as they are actually given.

2. How did we get started talking about a reindeer in the janamsakhi? I am curious about that. Reindeer inhabit the Arctic, not India. It had to be some other kind of deer.  I am a guilty party.