NO MORE BLOOD SHED

NO MORE BLOOD SHED is a 15 minute documentary on The Ramakrishna Dakshineswar Kali Temple, based at Kolkata. It's a rare Kali temple where NO animal sacrifice is allowed.

Through a commentary by Shri Kushal Chowdhury, a descendant of Rani Rashmoni who built the temple in 1855, he takes us around the temple complex where Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa lived and served as its Head Priest. ‘Thakur’ as Sri Ramakrishna is reverently known, worshiped The Goddess, whose puja is traditionally performed even today.

The documentary tells us how the Board of Trustees of Dakshineswar Kali Temple does NOT permit any animals to be sacrificed because ‘Thakur’ taught “jatra jeev tatra Shiv” (wherever there is a living being there is Shiva). Therefore, since 1996 ash gourds, bananas and sugarcane sticks are symbolically sacrificed instead of animals.