From IIM Ahmedabad To Happiness

Author(s): Vijay K Jain
Publisher: Vikalp Printers

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FROM IIM-AHMEDABAD TO HAPPINESS
enjoyer, it ought to go on enjoying the comforts even after death, but it is obvious that no dead body is ever anxious to be propped up on cushions, to be clothed in purple and silk, or to relish the sumptuous meal and wine. We should not find it difficult now to comprehend why every one who looks at a woman with lust is as much guilty as if he had actually committed adultery with her. Mere entertaining of a lustful thought suffices to set up harmful vibrations which must produce their full effect, unless countermanded, in time, by more powerful vibrations of holy thought. This is how every thought is punished or rewarded. You entertain evil thoughts, and you suffer for them, here or hereafter. If, on the other hand, your thoughts are healthy, you get your reward in the increase of spiritual vigour and life. As you sow, so shall you reap.
It is true that a vast majority of men in this world are nonvegetarian. The response of such men, when faced with an argument in favour of vegetarianism, ranges from an assertion that since the best part of the mankind is non-vegetarian there could be nothing wrong with it, to that it is 'impractical' to be a vegetarian, to that there is nothing morally wrong with the practice.
The value of Truth does not depend on the numbers that acknowledge its supremacy. The whole world may be ignorant of it, yet it is inconceivable that truth itself be any the worse for the ignorance of men. Numbers are only useful to him who has nothing better or higher to aim at than show. The earth was flat for the whole world until it was established that it was round!
With respect to practicability, it can be shown that all the impracticability lies with the so-called man of the world, and in no sense with the concept of vegetarianism, when properly understood. The question is, what is practical? The meaning of the
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