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Vegetarianism Holds The Key For Preserving Our Heritage
- Nirmal Dosi
vegetarian, he holds on to his heritage.
Violence against environment:
Four major religions have come out of India. They are Buddha, Hindu, Jain, and Sikh Dharma. They all believe in non-violence, consumption of vegetarian foods among other beliefs, and reincarnation. Since a person is born according to the karma, he/she can also be born in animal form. When person eats meat, we don't know whom he is eating. Here is what our various dharmas say:
Buddha Dharma: Several dangerous diseases flourish due to meat eating. So give up meat eating.
We are surrounded by trees, plant, vegetables, earth, water, air, fire (one sense), warms etc. (having two senses - touch, taste), ants etc. (having three senses - touch, taste, smell), bees etc. (having four senses - touch, taste, smell, eyes), pigeons, snakes etc. (having five senses touch, taste, smell, eyes, ear and no rational thinking), cows, lions, monkeys etc. with five senses and some rational thinking capability. We are destroying them. We are spoiling them. Crimes against all the above elements by wisest beings on this earth namely human being is unpardonable and very selfish. Our air, water, plants and animals are destroyed, commercialized. The wisest thinking beings have turn into demons by destroying purity on this earth, and slaughtering animals for money and taste. Today air and water is heavily polluted throughout the planet.
Hindu Dharma: Only vegetarian food is meant for humans. Many diseases originate due to meat eating.
Jain Dharma: Non- vegetarian food is originator of violence and increaser of sin. Non-violence and kindness to living beings is kindness to oneself. For thereby one's own self is saved from sins and resultant sufferings.
Sikh Dharma: Religious seeking, prayers and rites get destroyed due to use of meat, and drink.
Sending animals to slaughter houses for commerce and eating is really very pathetic. Milk producers use artificial insemination, extract all milk which really belongs to calf, killing calves for special meat, slaughtering sheep, goats, chickens, hens for eating, sending cows to slaughterhouse after her four years of maximum production period. It is so inhuman. All our scriptures say all meat eaters will go to hell (and may become same animals that they are eating).
Once a person becomes meat eater, his chain to his dharma is broken, he looses his identity and joins his hands in allegiance to other religious groups (Christian, Muslims, and Jews etc). Staying
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