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simply the
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support the body is not a sound basis, supper-abundance among people who
do not make & business of raising and our people would say that the
cattle for the purpose of killing them. people who live in countries where
In our country, where there is no such there are no vegetables and where
a thing as cattle-farming for the pur. they are obliged to eat flesh, have no pose of giving milk, there has never business to live in those countries. been a super-abundance of animals. Another thing, even in the coldest
Those who have lived mostly on meat
do not understand cooking vegetables. climates of America it is possible to
The cooking in this country is equiimport food from California or any valent to boiling, and boiling, is not other country, and when people simply cooking, that is the food should be say that it is impossible for those peo
is impossible for those 090- cooked to such & degree that it is ple to live on any other diet it means
palatable, nutritious and not injurious.
Take, for instance, rice. When that at they do not wish to live
is cooked in the ordinary American on any other diet. What ground is fashion, it is cooked till it is paste,
that a human which might be very good to paste being has the soul of an animal? It paper on & wall, but is not good to eat.
"We know that the growth of nature is not a question of soul at all in the
is slow of process, and must take its selection of food. When human being natural time, and if you cook any artiis killed. the soul is not killed; the cles too quickly, it will be spoiled. soul is an entity which is immortal, Everything is done in haste in this and it is not dead, but only living in country. They say that they have no some other body. We have only dest- time. How do they utilize the time royed the relation which has existed which is saved for the public good ? between soul and the body. It is But you must make home and yourself higher in the human being then in happy first, and that is to be done by the animal. but on a lower in the right management and right reguvegetable than in the animal. It is lations in tamily life, and right prebetter since we must destroy some paration of the food; and here you will life in order to live, that the life find a great difference between the should be destroyed on the lower plane people of this country, and the people then on the higher. The same argu- of my country. The first education ments just mentioned might be appli- given to a girl in my country is in ed to killing human beings, but we do cooking, but in this country, ladies not all become cannibals on account think it beneath their dignity; there. of the fact that the soul is not des fore, the ordinary diet in this country troyed by the death of the body. The is only beef, potatoes, coffee, bread, question of existence or non-existence etc., and everything is stereotyped. of the soul has no bearing, at all, on A progressive nation like America this question if we cannot give life, ought surely to study modes of coowhat right have we to destroy it? king. So many inventions are made Suppose the vegetable food is not
every day, it ought not to be a difficbetter than the animal; man has not
ult thing to learn to cook. But in therefore, a right to crush down the the rush Ha push and hurry of living, other beings which inhabit the uni care for the body is left in the bands verse. Another argument is that if of the physician, the care of the soul the animals allowed to increase, they is left in the hands of the ministers, will become injurious, through their and the care of the daily life in the numbers. We know there will not be hands of the servants. The right first
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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