Introduction to Jainism

Author(s): A B Latthe
Publisher: Natha Rangaji

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does not eat flesh. Drinking and debauchery are strictly prohibited to the Islamites. The Koran commands truthfulness and non-stealing. Of the Ten Commandments, those that refer to non-killing, stealing, purity of charaeter, drinking etc. are quite in consonance with Jainism. The Bible prescribes vegetarianism:
“ Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth and every tree which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.”
[ Genesis chapt I, 29.] “While the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague. "
( See verse 33 and also verses 19 and 20 ) General Booth of the Salvation Army, himself a vegetarian, preaches that creed to all his followers. Vegetarian societies are founded