Gandhi Before Gandhi

SR No.: 007501
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Bipin Doshi, Priti Shah
Publisher: Jain Academy Educational Research Center Promotion Trust Mumbai
Publication Year: 2009
Total Pages: 198
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & History
File Size: 34 MB

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A GANDHI BEFORE GANDHI
"Thou shall not kill" does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from mount of Sinai".
avoid taking food like honey because act of violence is committed in its preparation. There are innumerable finer, deeper and unknown forces present in nature. Unless we study all of them from all aspects, they can never be fully understood by us. Our knowledge on food from this angle are very limited. He even criticized Americans for not knowing the method to cook the rice.
Lots of literature in Christianity against animal food
बया के अवतार. ईसा मसीह wa
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Intoxicating Drinks Tea With regard to drinking of tea, I should say that until the advent of British rule, the Hindus did not know what tea was. I, myself did not taste tea before I was twenty years old, and even in this day, in our small towns and villages, people never use it. They consider it, a kind of medicine for them and an acquired taste like this; is not a natural taste. The very nature of tea is stimulating and the natural result is nervousness, people who drink much tea, do not know how to keep fit. Our simple drink in India is water and that too is not mixed with anything.
Wine
There are lots of literature in Christianity which suggest that one should avoid animal food. There is a passage in Genesis which says that the God said, "I have given you every herb, etc., for your meal." Later, on account of the fall of man as it is understood, of course by all advocates of that theory, the people became flesh eaters and were carnivorous, but the original idea of holy persons was that the food proper for man was the vegetable diet. In other books of the Bible you will find passages confirming this theory. In the book of Daniel you will find such a passage. This proves that the earliest theory in the Bible history too supported vegetable diet.
KIND HEARTED LORD CHRIST are The mee
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The Germans sometimes think water is not enough and so they drink beer, but that is not allowed in our communities, and if a person touches wine, he takes a bath. If you understand the science of the aura which comes out from the human body, you will understand the reason for taking a bath. Taking wine means to us stimulating certain negative feelings in the body which can be gotten rid by the use of plenty of water. When a person is very angry the religious teacher asks him to take a bath at once and he is pacified in this way. Of course, such concepts are not to be found where bath is not taken every day. With the Hindus, there is no such thing as the weekly bath; they take the bath daily early in the morning,
DONT MAKE YOUR STOMACH A GRAVE YARD FOR DEAD BODIES
Indian culture and especially the Jain Community do not advocate use of any food or things where killing of insects, worms or animal is getting promoted. Preparation of honey, silk, leather goods, natural pearls, cosmetics, animal based medicines, woollen clothes etc. are not advocated for the simple reason put forward by quote of Leo Tolstoy
We may not be able to give life to anyone and hence we have no right to take life of anyone. He wrote "I would prefer to die, but not to eat meat"