Wave of Bliss

Author(s): N P Jain
Publisher: Jain Meditation International Centre

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rouge, and other products, which kill musk deer for scent).
When womankind will stop turning a deaf ear to brutality meted out to the most helpless of living beings the innocent, defenseless animals only then will there be a move to end brutality and violence toward human beings. It is those who care to save the lives of all life forms who will awaken humans to their own destiny. No matter how many outcries of rage are sent out into the universe against the tyranny of dictatorships, against the irrationality of leaders in perpetuating the arms race, against the violence done in the name of any ism or in the interest of profit, they will not be effective until the enraged uses his/her voice to stop injustice toward all living beings and until that person stops feeding his/her body on murdered flesh.
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Animal lovers, activists, vegetarians have taken their place in history as great literary figures, as highly respected philosophers, artists, mathematicians, statesmen. Among them are Diogeness, Porphyry, Pythagoras, Seneca, Ovid, Plutarch, Plato, Socrates, Alexander Pope, Schopenhauer, Leonardo da Vinci, Michael de Montaigne, Geremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Henry David Thoreau, Leo Tolstoy, George Bernard Shaw, Maurice Maeterlinck, Annie Besant, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, John Harvey Kellogg, Albert Schweitzer.
Jesus said, "For I tell you truly, he who kills, kills himself, and who so eats the flesh of slain beasts eats the body of death".
When blood soaks the earth, Mother Earth groans with pain. Sometimes the pain bursts the earth open and the
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