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up bad company and always enjoy Satsang or the company of learned Sadhus and Mahatmas. Their strong currents will overhaul your evil habits. Prayer, Tapa and meditation will also help in the eradication of this evil habit. There is nothing impossible under the sun. Where there is a will there is a way.
16. MEAT-EATING
Meat is not at all necessary for the keeping up of health. Meat-eating is highly deleterious to health. It brings a host of ailments such as tapeworm, albuminuria and other diseases of the kidneys. After all, man wants very little on this earth. A few slices of bread and a little dhal will quite suffice to keep up his health, vigour and vitality. Killing of animals for food is a great sin. Instead of killing the egoism and the idea of "mine-ness”, ignorant people kill inno cent animals under the pretext of sacrifice to the goddess. But it is really to satisfy their tongue and palate. Horrible! Most inhuman! Ahimsa is the greatest of all virtues. Ahimsa Paramo Dharmah Ahimsa is the first virtue that a spiritual aspirant should possess. We should have reverence for life. Lord Jesus says: "Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.” Lord Jesus and Mahavira shouted at the top of their voice: “Regard every living being as thyself and harm no one”. The law of Karma is inexorable, unrelenting and immutable. The pain
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