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food for the man they would voluntarily surrender themselves to be
butchered. All act of killing cause immense pain and suffering. Imagine
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Oneofthegreatestimpetusforreligiouslifeistocomeoutofpain
andsuffering.Everydayinourlivesweseethat.Everydaywereaditin
newspapers. In fact, the news is all about death and obituary. There is
no day in which the newspapers has not reported a death in
one form or other. Earthquakes, wars, accidents, murders and other
formsofdeathfillthepapereveryday.
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Death,pain,andsufferingareauniversalexperiencecommontoall
beings.Ifmanweretocomeoutofthat,hewishesthesametoallbeings.
Therefore,thefirstobviousthinginreligiouslifewouldbenonviolence.
Hinduism begins by nonviolence (Yoga Sutras: 2:30 begins by
Ahimsa),Buddhismbeginsbynonviolence(Thefournobletruths),
and other religions as well. Great men like Buddha had an ideal far
removed from the ordinary religious. It surpassed the love for humanity
andembracedallanimalsaswell.Thegoalhedecidedwastogeteveryone
outofsuffering.

Allembracinglove

Thegreatteachersofmankind,foundintheirreligiousexperiences,
thatevenaniotaofinflictingpainorsufferingonothersisboundtocome
back. They create an adverse karma, which one reaps in equal measure.
Therefore,oneoughttobecarefulnottocreatesuchadversekarma.The
teachers also found that the human body has the ideal set of conditions
for achieving liberation, and any harm done to it means stalling the
liberationprocess.Whenyouharmothersyoudisturbthewhole
liberation process. Though animals do not possess such ideal
conditions for achieving liberation, yet harming it would undermine the
liberationprocess.Therefore,fromthepointofviewofliberation
nonviolencehastobeexercised.

Whatexactlydoesnonviolenceconstitute?

1.Abstainfrominflictingdirectphysicalharmorpain
 on human beings as well as animals. There are some
groupofpeoplewhoarguethatplantstoopossesslifeandifthat
isthecase,therewouldbenoabsolutenonviolence.Yes, it is
truetoacertainextent,butplantsdontbleedandcry
whenweuprootthemthesenseorgansarecompletely
missing and the faculty which discerns pain is
completelyabsent.Paininvolvessensoryorgansinrelationto
a body and a nervous system which transmits the pain to the
brain and a resulting experience. This cycle and the system is
completely absent in plants and other similar life forms.
Therefore,thepainisnegligible.

2. Nonviolence constitutes complete detachment.

Attachment to any object or person brings a series of motion
resultinginpainorsufferingtoaparticularperson.The more
selfdependentapersonis,themorehewillbeableto
helpothers.Themoredependentapersonis,themore
heislikelytoharmothers.

3.Nonviolenceisexercisingloveandhelpingothersin
distress. Only a nonviolent person would be truly able to
sympathize with the suffering of others. He becomes a great
humanitarian,helpingothersintimeofdistress.

Humanitarianaid

Nonviolenceisnotmerelyabstainingfromflesh,butisessentiallynon
harming,nonattachmentandhelpingothersindistress.Butitwillbe
goodifamanessentiallyabstainsfromeatingfleshandblood.

ThankYou.
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