Tulsi Prajna 1994 10

SR No.: 524581
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Parmeshwar Solanki
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 1994
Total Pages: 152
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 7 MB

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religions. Alfred Kaestler (1978) mentioned at UNESCO roundtable conference that since animals are our biological brothers, the time has come that in the interest of man's own future this 'cartesian partition' between human beings and other living creatures should be broken. This partition is totally unscientific and unreasonable.
Scientists observed that 'from an ecologist's perspective, there is no dichotomy between man and other living things'. The natural laws demand the concurrence of all the species that live under them. Ruskin in his UNTO THE LAST states "That the good of the individual is contained in the good of all". Our God is the same God. This earth is precious to him, and to harm the earth is to heap contempt on its Creator. Schumacher (1977) mentioned that modern experiments to live without religion have failed, whereas Whitehead (1962) states that the future of the civilization depends on the degree to which we can balance the forces of science and religion.
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All the religions followed by human in various parts of the World also speak in favour of vegetarian diet for the human. In Christianity it is believed that-"God commanded that man should not eat the blood of animal along with its flesh. The blood symbolises the animal's life and that belongs to God (Genesis 9:4,5.). This explains why man should not kill animals for his consumption. The killing will produce blood and destroy life, which has been created by God and not by man. Another reference states that even carnivores should feed on plants and thus support the recent scientific investigations about the losses of energy by feeding on animals. "Wolves and sheep will live together in peace and the leopard will lie down with young goats, cows and lion cubs will feed together and little children will take care of them. Lions will eat straw as cattle do" (Isaiah 11:6,7). Even in Islam, it is mentioned that 'O people, fear your lord who created you from a single soul, and created from it, its mate' (al-nisa V. 1). These facts suggest that all the creatures are equal and created by a supreme power. Now, a days it is believed that the human has no right to take the life of any creature as he cannot give life to any one.
Conclusion :
The health of human beings is vital to the progress of humanity and future generations including human civilisation. We should have development without destruction. We begin with the notion, that humanity must survive and we should change our attitudes towards nature and natural resources including other living animals. We know that our ingenuity, which brought technological advances,