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towards unrestricted eating encourages others to indulge in providing such food for commercial gain whether you kill or not, if you consume others will kill for you & is undesirable & violent. Even natural death does not after the toxicity of meat. Rejecting something has the inherent meaning of accepting it's opposite. Negation of harming life obviously is revernce for life Don't tell lie contains tell truth Don't destroy means protect & foster life. Callousness & hardness to harm some one keeps on increasing . Realistion to pain to others on harming anyone awareness of harm & pain caused will abandon. Destruction is evil, construction is good. Curbing of destruction antagonism can be achieved only with construction of sympathy, compassion, equanimity cultivation of feeling of fraternity by winning over feelings of envy, jealousy, competition.
Fight only when necessary for survival. When you can win otherwise withdraw, which saves energy for using in right direction when enough has been done. or factors which are undesirable, harmful & unalterable Efforts to change them or convert them are futile, situation of attraction of short term gains is ultimate loss. Equanimity to prevent falling into trap is required ny encompasses feeling of compassion philanthropy benevolence equanimity
This is not one sided relationship we are related to others & others are related to us. Every action movement taken by us has great effect on others but we fail to perceive interaction.
We take it for granted that whatever nature has given is our fathers property & we can use it the way we like, we never own responsibility for what happens around us by any action. We do produce certain effect on people environment plants air water our surrounding. Food Chains → plants → Herbivores → Carnivores.
This killing of animals has disturbed whole environment Human culture can blossom & bloom on ground of non violence Jainism advocates respect to all life lead to better environment, better mind less intensity of passion greater happiness. If carnivorous decreases herbivorous increases & if herbivorous increses plants.
Mental violence converted into physical violence activate selfishness jealousy greed lack of consideration for others. It may give pleasure but it is ultimately real cause of miseries
By industrial waste atomic waste earth water are directly affected plants produce in such soil will also be weak & not nutritious they may carry harmful chemicals atomic particles plant eaten by animals, small change in environment will create great effect in whole eco system.
Degradation of animals plants in simple substance nitrogen, carbon all these substance return to nature and again are available for the living
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