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If you engage somebody as a servant to sweep, mop and clean your house, what would it be called? If you engage a maid servant to clean your utensils used in cooking and eating food, what would it be called? If you engage someone to wash your dirty clothes or clean your car or other vehicles, what would it be called? If porters are used for unloading grain sacks from a tempo or truck, what would it be called? If you hire a coolie at a railway station to carry your luggage, what would it be called? Of course, if you load the above categories of workers with undue or excessive burden, it is certainly inhuman. However, if you think in terms of not engaging the services of these people, how many men and women would be jobless? Which is greater in-humanity? While caring for superficial humanity, one is likely to lose sight of true humanity In our predominantly agricultural economy even today more than 2.75 crore families earn their livelihood by plying bullock carts. To make an animal pull excessive weight is certainly inhuman. There is a line in atichar sutra"adhiko bhar ghalyo” (meaning - excessively overloaded). By using the word overloaded', it is presumed that loading within limit is not something wrong. Unfortunately, animals are driven away from the centre of our economy and they have become the centre of our food (nonvegetarian) arrangement. Like India is primarily an agricultural country, it is also primarily an animal husbandry dependent country. Human beings and animals complement each other in its economy. Animal is the main constituent of agricultural, Lighthouse
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