Atma Dharma

Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Champat Rai Jain

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new idea as I was 20 years ago." This is sufficient to show that meat is not only not necessary as an article of food, but positively harmful to health as well.
As for vivisection which is the perpetration of endless horrors in the name of human good and science, it is well to know that the ancients studied their anatomy and physiology direct by internal concentration. The moderns have yet to learn the greatness of their remote ancestors in these sciences, but the powers of a yogi in the healing art have always been regarded as astonishing by all who have had an opportunity of observing their manifestation. But even were it otherwise and vivisection could be regarded as the only source or means of scientific knowledge, what good would it do to purchase a day or two's respite here from death and then to pay for it with perennial suffering in the most undesirable surroundings in the life to come? No need to repeat what has already been said about the evil undesirable consequences that 66 in the hereafter from himsâ; suffice it to say that if you want to study the future welfare of your soul, then you should know that the best motto in life is-love all and injure
accrue
none.
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And one may see if one has eyes to see, that the Message of the Gods on the Victory-banner of