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The Gita states-"Desire for the fruits of work, must never be the motive of working, Renounce attachment to the fruits. Work done with anxiety about results is far inferior to work done without such anxiety." Experience shows that a person excessively attached to things, when thwarted or threatened by their possible loss, becomes angry, vehement and violent. Freedom through non-attachment is the solution offered.
TWO-FOLD PURPOSE OF DHARMA OR RELIGION
According to Islam, God is (Rahim) beneficial and (Rahiman) merciful. The life of mercy is the inner heart of adoration of the Lord. The prophet Mohammed once said "as you wish to love God so you should love his (God's) creatures". He said further "Animals too have souls like men. If you are good to animals, you will be rewarded."
In Christianity Jesus said to his disciples-"Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy." Christ himself expressly insisted on abstaining from eating meat. Pythagoras, a great Greek Philosopher, lived about 532 B. C. It may be that, but for him, Christians would never have thought of Christ as they do. Besides being a scientist and mathematician, Pythagoras was also a great religious teacher. As such he said, "Take not away the life you cannot give. For all have an equal right to live." Pythagoras also taught that "the soul is an immortal thing, that it is transformed into other kinds of beings, that what would not be the case in its existence is borne out again in the revolution of a certain cycle, and that all things
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