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vegetation and animals. There was peace and prosperity in life due to acceptance of purity of means in material life.
Both the rulers and the ruled were under the regulation of the saints, in the command of the Dharmagurus. This was the foundation of the spiritual progress of the Indian people.
The chief of the Lichchawi Republics Maharaj Chetak, Samrat Ashok, Samprati Kharvel, Shrenik, Chandragupta, Sidharaja, Kumarpal, Vastupal, Tejpal and Shivaji Maharaj were in the command of great saints like Bhagawan Mahaveer, Gautam Buddha, Hemchandracharya and Swami Samarth Ramdas and that is why the people were happy.
Recently news appeared in the papers that under the obligation of another religion the Mumbai municipality had permitted the operation of slaughterhouses in the name of 'Dharmik Vadha' - Religious killing. This permission is no doubt, bound to be withdrawn in the wake of tremendous objection from the supporters of non-violence; yet what is the Government trying to convey by linking the word 'killing' with “religion'?
A life style, a society or a Government is bound to fall if it is based on the foundation of violence. Nourishing the body through cruelty is not the sign of material prosperity. Where the streams of love and compassion dry up, disturbance is bound to grow as a result.
The physical and mental health of a people is based on food. But now the multinational corporations have an eye on the Indian agricultural system and farm produce. They have already begun the process of poisoning the Indian life style. Instead of violent pesticides
