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ARIŞTANEMI’S SPORT, INITIATION, OMNISCIENCE 269 seller, the dresser, the eåter, the buyer, the approver, the giver—they are all killers. Ones who eat another's flesh for the nourishment of their own flesh are in fact killers, since there is no killer without an eater. Who would commit a sin for the sake of that miserable body in which clean food is turned into excrement and nectar 252 into urine?
The intelligence of one greedy for the taste of meat, like that of an evil-minded witch, revolves about killing one creature after another. Persons who eat meat, when divine food is present, eat hālāhala, putting nectar aside. There is no dharma of one without compassion. Whence is there compassion of a meat-eater? The one greedy for meat does not know that; or, if he should know, would not warn (others).
The one devoid of compassion, who wishes to nourish his own flesh by the flesh of others, is fuel for the flames of helland no one else. Who, except worms, would eat meat originated in semen and blood, made to grow by feces and chyle, red when it has attained growth? Who, intelligent would eat dressed meat, spoiled at once by an infinite series of coagulated 253 creatures, viaticum on the road to hell ?
Eating of butter and honey (334–340)
Fresh butter, in which heaps of very fine creatures come into existence from coagulation, must not be eaten by the discerning after an antarmuhūrta.254 Considering what sin there would be in the destruction of even one soul, who would use fresh butter consisting of a multitude of creatures ?
Who eats honey, disgusting like saliva, originating from the destruction of many collections of creatures? The one who eats honey originating from destruction of lacs of small creatures is worse than hunters, killers of a few creatures. Observers of dharma do not eat honey spit out, which bees
252 327. Water, etc. 253 333. Sammūrchita. See I, n. 29, p. 21. 254 334. An infinitesimal fraction less than 48 minutes. See II, n. 265.
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