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અધ્યાત્મતત્વાલક.
Ti thoja almost every other country in Europe, subsist principally and most of them entirely on vegetable food." ( Ahimsă Dharma Prakāsh ).
Flesh-eaters are disqualified to perform any religious rite; because their bodies remain impure with the bundle of flesh in their stomachs. Look at the absurdity in the idea of propitiating the goddess Chandi with goat-offerings ! This practice cannot be justified on any rational ground. Can we imagine that the goddess who protects and who is Mercy-incarnate can ever think of accepting the flesh of gentle, guileless, and innocent lamb, goat or he-buffalo ? It is simply the jugglery of the flesh-eating Brahmins.
Plutarch remarks-“ Desist 0 i mortals to violate living bodies for your infamous dishes. There are crops, there are fruits bending the branches by their weight, and swelling grapes, on the vines, there are sweet herbs, there are those which you may soften and make palatable by fire, nor is milk wanting to you, nor honey redolent of thymes, and the bounteous earth causes Sweet elements to spring up richly and affords feasts without slaughter and without blood. X
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At length some mischievous innovator desirous of new food commenced to fill a greedy belly with animal dishes and opened the way to wickedness.
What an evil habit does he contract and how he prepares himself to shed human blood, who cuts
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