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Balidana:
As said in our scriptures Balidana Maha-Punya. Why? This is eternal law of nature. To gets something to have to sacrifice something. To get letters you have to sacrifice ink as Bali. To get picture you have to sacrifice e electricity as Bali. But only throwing ink over a paper does not make letter. You have to follow a proper logic system. In Genesis, the first book of the Bible, has Abraham preparing to sacrifice his son to God.
"Take your son, your only son – yes, Isaac, whom you love so much – and go to the land of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will point out to you."
(Genesis 22:1-18) Abraham takes his own son up on a mountain and builds an altar upon which to burn him alive. He even lies to his son and has him help build the altar. Then Abraham ties his son to the altar and puts a knife to his throat. Then he hears God tell him this was just a test of his faith. However, God tells Abraham to burn a ram. Similarly In Exodus 13:2 the Lord said
"Consecrate to me every first-born that opens the womb among Israelites, both man and beast, for it belongs to me."
G This same thing happened with the child of Karna of
Mohabharat in India. Karna sacrified his child for Lord
Krishana.
In Egypt the ritual killing of human beings as part of the offerings presented to the gods on a regular basis, or on special occasions. Retainer sacrifice, that is the killing of domestic servants to bury them along with their master. The Maya believed in blood sacrifice to keep the cosmos in balance. According to Tantra the sacrifice should be for a higher purpose, a mechanism. If you spill (sacrifice) the ink over a paper no letters will be made. But if you sacrifice it to the ball point mechanism of dot pen letters will be created.
(Hebrews 9:22). When Adam and Eve sinned, animals were
killed by God to provide clothing for them (Genesis
3:21). Cain and Abel brought sacrifices to the Lord.
Cain's was unacceptable because he brought fruit, while
Abel's was acceptable because it was the “firstborn of
his flock” (Genesis 4:4-5). After the flood receded,
Noah sacrificed animals to God (Genesis 8:20-21).
God commanded the nation of Israel to perform numerous
sacrifices according to certain procedures prescribed by
God. First, the animal had to be spotless. Second, the
person offering the sacrifice had to identify with the
animal. Third, the person offering the animal had to
inflict death upon it. When done in faith, this
sacrifice provided forgiveness of sins.
Sacrifice in Ancient Maya
The Mayans often made sacrifices to the Gods. Some
sacrifices were just offering of food but sometimes
people would be sacrificed (human sacrifice). The Mayans did not sacrifice
their own people, they took captives from war and
sacrificed them. Another Mayan form of sacrifice was
bloodletting. The Mayans would cut themselves to make
them bleed because they believed that their blood
nourished the Gods. Bloodletting was also believed to
help people connect with their animal spirits. The
ancient Mayans had a complex pantheon of deities whom
they worshipped and offered human sacrifices. Rulers
were believed to be descendants of the gods and their
blood was the ideal sacrifice, either through personal
bloodletting or the sacrifice of captives of royal
blood.
Animal Sacrifice in Egypt
Egyptian sacrifice animals in a huge way. The sacrificed
animal was regarded as a symbolic embodiment of the
god's enemy. When a bull was sacrificed in honour of
Osiris the following spell was recited: "I hit him who
is in the form of a bull who hit you." The sacrificial
animal was, therefore, equated with Seth. The most usual
sacrificial animals were geese, goats, cattle and
antelopes, the latter of which were especially close to
the divine opponent, Seth, because their mutual home was
the desert. The animals were inspected for purity before
the sacrifice and were then festively adorned. After the
animal had been slaughtered by severing the jugular vein
it was dissected with a flint knife.
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