________________
10
with universal compassion? Unbound love & non-violence. Unlike the selfclaiming 'Gandhians' like Shri Manjappa, it was very truly observed and significantly equated by real Gandhian, great modern thinker & farsighted seer, well-wisher of humankind Acharya Vinoba Bhave that 'Science plus Ahimsa & NonViolence Universal Welfare & Sarvodaya and Science minus Ahimsa = Total Destruction or Sarvanasha. When we are using the science in wrong way, are we not witnessing its dangerous, disastrous results in our day-to-day events, accidents and terrorist activities? Let us have right understanding and right usage of science before talking of scientific approach without knowing it in integrity.
3)
GANDHIAN: It was surprising that Shri Manjappa calls himself to be a Gandhian. If so, he is to be very humbly questioned, does he know the objectives and all-sided welfare providing Gandhian economy & philosophy behind the stoppage of slaughtering & encouragement of agriculture & cattle farming in the country? Does he know what Gandhi and his ardent constructive workers have pleaded and implemented to save not only the cow, but entire cattle & animal wealth and why? Does he know that Gandhian economy & programme clearly indicates for saving & protecting and bringing up cattle wealth for total human welfare? Has he ever studied, why this protection & preservation of cattle life which provides dungs for fuel, manure for crops and bulls and other animals for agriculture and the entire circle not only for milk products but for overall human growth? Leaving aside several such posers, can one ask self-claimed Gandhian Shri Manjappa what he had done to enforce & implement these (or atleast what he believed to be) principles of Gandhian philosophy in the State of Karnataka when he was a CM? Will he list for people's information the concrete Gandhian steps taken by him with their results?
4)
VEGETARIANISM: Amusingly enough a responsible person like Shri Manjappa inaugurating the Seminar claims to be a vegetarian also on one hand and twists the logic to the extent of emphasising the matter of Swami Vivekanandaji's being a non-vegetarian on the other. Will he provide the exact reference for this from Swamiji's biography? Even if it is so, how does it justify the cause of gigantic abattoirs killing the economy and overall culture of this basically spiritual country? How does it justify, scientifically justify the need of a modern abattoir in Bengalooru or Karnataka or Bharat? If so, what of the several very highly advanced other spiritual leaders of this nation and the west who are deadly against not only non-vegetarianism & modern abattoirs and modern abattoirs, but all sorts of slaughter houses, which are the root cause alongwith drinking, etc of the large scale violence, terrorism and all kind of cultural & moral degradation? Doesn't it seem ridiculous when such a person of Shri Manjappa's status opts to putforth such illogical arguments to prove his support?
In fact, it is not the question only of Vegetarianism or Non-vegetarianism (to put in their words but the other way), but it is the question of the survival of human, which cannot survive without animals. If you have to survive, you have to let others survive! "Life for Life" may be the law of the uncivilised, uncultured beasts, while the culturally advanced intellectual human being should have the principle of Live & Let Live! Co-existence, without coexistence of animals and all creatures,
