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the egg under the name of non-vegetarian egg is being made through the medium of education.
The government has been encouraging people to eat meat by propagating the view that it increases physical health and strength. It is absolutely untrue that non-vegetarian food contains more vitamins than vegetables, food grain, etc. Actually, vitamins are richer in vegetables and food grain than in meat. The physical strength of a vegetarian is in no way less than that of a meat-eater. Food is not merely a source of strength. It also produces in human beings, blood and vitality. Many men who never ate meat, are famous in the history of the world as supreme heroes possessing Superhuman strength and energy. THE REVERSE CALCULATION OF MEAT-EATING AND STRENGTH
There is no such rule as this: "Those who eat vegetarian food are weak physically and those who eat meat are strong". Even those who eat meat become afflicted with many diseases; they too become weak, they too decay and also die. You should not eat meat even on account of the temptation of acquiring physical strength. Vegetarian food contains all the nutritious substances that are necessary for acquiring physical strength. It contains many things that can give us strength, therefore, I exhort you not to eat meat even on account of the temptation of becoming strong physically.
Meat-eating brings loss to you in this world as well as in the other world. In the Shastras, the writers have described many dangers that result from violence. Non-violence conduces to health and prosperity while violence and meat-eating bring many diseases and misfortunes. Maladies and misfortunes result from meat-eating. If the Jivatma causes violence to the other creatures, it only means that he is inviting disease and misfortune. I say this from the point of view of your life in the other world. Those jivas that eat meat becoming slaves to the sense of taste, will have to become victims to untold miseries, misfortunes and diseases in the other world. If you cause violence to jivas, you will be bound by the Karma called Ashatavedaniya. When this Karma rises to the surface
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