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mitted but on certain conditions. These Shastras say that, an animal can be killed but for sacrificial purposes; and why is it so ? Since they (the
astrakars ) wanted to satisfy the greedy but human hearts whom they desired to induce to follow their religion, who have already accepted their religion or were born of parents who have accepted their religion but who can on no other grounds be led to kill harmless animals for food purposes. For human hearts who were to kill animals on no ground whatever, the religion of love such as we find here and there in Vedas and laterly in modern Hinduism under the name of Vaishnavism etc. were constructed. Such were the artifices contrived by the founders
modern Hinduism and many other previous religions such as Vedic Brahmanism, Buddhism etc. to soothe the minds of those people who were influenced by the grand humane principle of “ AT TCHT STÅ: ” ever taught by the original human and eternal religion of Jainism, much too powerful to be totally ignored. ( It may be stated here that, whatever religion or whatever philosophy ignored the Jain religion and Jain philosophy totally, could not live in India but totally died out. It is one of the reasons of decline of Buddhism in India, whose
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