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Min. 1 SPIRITUAL LIGHT. the throat of the innocent calf and unmoved lends his ears to its moanings or who can slaughter the kid uttering its childlike cries or can nourish himself with the fowl which he has fed with his own hands ? How is this less than a great crime ?
Animals possess the same feelings: they are not mere automatic machines. They have also fears, joys, passions and sympathy. When they are deprived of their young ones, they ring the whole forest by their agonies. When the wounded animal lingers and expires, the intensity and depth of torment is so immeasurably great that the poor dumb animal canont express. and cannot offer resistance to it, as we are able to do.
So, on the whole, it could be clearly seen from above, that animal diet, instead of serving as a nutritious food, strongly impairs health because animal food tends to generate uric acid in large quantity in the systems of flesh-eaters, as declared by eminent doctors in their medical enquiries. Hence such wanton acts of cruelty stand no justification. Abstention from animal diet tends to develop spirituality. It brings on control over mind, speech and body. It naturally curbs desires which, according to all systems of philosophy are the main-springs propagating this Samsara. ( Cycle of Transmigration. ) These desires kill or impair the vital forces in proportion to intensity with which they are entertained and cherished. It is highly essential therefore to curb or root them out. In proportion to the intensity with which
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