Know to Enlighten

Author(s): Rajyashsuri
Publisher: Rajyashsuriji

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pure life. Someone has said if the food is pure his mind is cheerful. If mind is cheerful his life is full of happiness.
Pure life leads to abstinence from food which is the ultimate aim of life. One must observe non-violence to the maximum extent and lead a good life. Non-violence protects, but violence leads to destruction. Non-vegetarian foods are produced out of animal life. Animals are sacrificed for non-vegetarian food products which involves violence. It is said whatever you eat you get there deeds for e.gif you eat animals, you may behave like animals.
On the contrary, vegetarianism is not only propaganda of a cult but there is a thoughtful approach also to live a better life which is the real way of life. People eat in order to sustain physical body. This body is meant for entertaining good thoughts and doing good deeds. Every living being wants to be happy. Hence, if one resorts to non-vegetarian food how can he have noble thoughts in his life ? G. B. Shaw has said: "My stomach is not a grave yard to bury animals or birds." Vegetarianism is accepted not only to satisfy hunger but also to preserve purity of character and conduct.
According to foreign thinkers, there is no royal road to peace except non-violence. Today many countries are quarrelling them-selves. How vegetarianism can put a stop to the rivers of blood ? Yes, it is meant to wipe out the blots of cruelty. It gradually fills one's heart with a delicate sense of love and compassion.
Non-vegetarian foods encourage cruelty but vegetarianism saves world from Wars. There can be no war as long as people are non-violent, compassionate and soft to others. Otherwise, there is no alternative to total destruction and annihilation of a generation.
Pure food-stuffs consisting of vegetables and fruits create in the eaters good thoughts, sentiments, selfconfidence, devotion, patience, cheerfulness, love, fraternity, high thinking, a placid and quiet thoughtfulness and renders peace to their brain and nervous system. Pure and innocent food make one healty in body and quiet in mind. It not only makes soul happy in this life, but in the other world too.
Like Hinduism, Islam also decries non-vegetarian food and true followers of Islam refrain from taking nonvegetarian food.
The holy Kuran says: "The sacrifice of an animal does not go to Allah, but your mercifulness." According to Islam, beasts are born of unholy seeds, hence flesh is also impure and unacceptable. The very Kuran says "God has created QUADRUPEDS as beasts to burden, grain and vegetation for food." Sacrifice of animals is prohibited at Macca, the religious shrines of Islam. This emphasises that true religion lies in mercy and not in violence.
Jesus, founder of christianity says "Thou shalt not kill." He was totally against violence, He asked to hold right cheek, if slapped on the left one. True followers of Lord Jesus also should, therefore, take only vegetarian food.
Sikh religion also forbids non-vegetarian food and proclaims non-violence.
Guru Nanak says, "Your garment is soiled with blood, if you eat flesh, how can your mind be clean ?" Granth sahib says: "Those who drink alcohol and eat flesh are wicked... They will be dumb at the day of judgment." Then how can followers of Sikh religion dare to take nonvegetarian food?
Kabir, whom both Muslims and Hindus regard as a
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