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Jainism: The Cosmic Vision
Paul was jocular in his tone when he said, "In that case man would be extremely coward. A tiger-hunter is really a brave man !"
I rejected his logic and said, "Excuse me, but I fail to understand your definition of bravery. A tiger-hunter keeps himself away at a very safe distance, occupying a seat on a raised platform on a tree and that, too, in the company of marksman and you would call him a brave man ! In terms of intelligence, the tiger is as good as a small child. In no case, such tiger-hunting would be an act of bravery."
Stella had another argument. She said, "May be all that you say is right. But I fail to understand that a man would not eat meat for the sake of flesh of his body."
I said, "In fact, our body is made for vegetarian food. Carnivorous animals do not have longer infesting, as we humans do have. Humans have flat chewing teeth, they have hands to hold their food-items and their saliva is alkaline - all these suggest that man is basically a vegetarian animal and his body is most suited to vegetarian food as against nonvegetarian food. One of the researchers of Academy of Medicine, Paris has derived a conclusion that a vegetarian needs five-times less time than a non-vegetarian to get relaxed. Besides the physical one, there is mental advantage also. He also adds that a vegetarian's capacity to face and solve the problems and difficult issues of life is two to there times more than that of a non-vegetarian."
Paul had another aggressive argument for pro-nonvegetarianism; he said, "I think, you don't bother about the human food. It is very strange that you want to starve the
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