The Healthy Food Health” is a household term. Not only doctors but mothers and grandmothers too use it frequently. Newspaper columns and books are packed with advice and information on how to maintain good health. Though the secret of health consists in proper orchestration of the three activities of diet, exercise and play, it is…
The World Outlook Most of us are familiar with Charles Darwin’s theory of man’s evolutionary origin. He postulated that the present-day species have evolved from simpler ancestral types by the process of natural selection. He also mentioned that, through millions of years, life has been continually changing. However, before man’s emergence, there must have been…
Mahavira said • Consider all living beings like your own self. • An elephant and an ant are alike souled – living beings. • They all love life. • All the beings long to live, no one wants to die. • Just as I dislike pain, so all other beings dislike pain. • A Shramana…
Apostles of Ahimsa, the Tirthankaras The credit of initiating this outlook and way f life certainly goes to Lord Rishbha of hoary antiquity, who was the first Shramana Tirthankara, the first teacher of man and harbinger of human civilization on this earth. The twemtythree Tirthankaras who succeeded him, one after the other, down to Lord…
Jainism and Vegetarianism The reason is not far to seek, Ahimsa is the very foundation of the Jaina system of religion and culture. The basis concept of Jaina philosophy is that every living organism, however lowly and underdeveloped, is endowed with a soul of its own, which is in its inherent nature and potentialities, not…
Ethical Grounds Those who claim to be sane and rational beings and care for ethical and humanitarian values and the moral uplift of the spirit will try to fee themselves from this thralldom of social conventions and fashions, and instead of pampering the corpus by a wanton pursuit of Epicureanism will take to vegetarianism in…
Case for Vegetarianism In fact, as human consciousness develop[s so the scope of man’s compassion expands. At first, it was freedom only for the elect, then the serfs were freed from oppression, then the slaves were given freedom. The uplift of the so-called Harijans, untouchables, outcastes, the Adivasis, and the hitherto down and trodden has…
Movement for Vegetarianism It was well-nigh two hundred years ago that the traditionally and conventionally meat-eating west began to wake up to the necessity of changing over to vegetarianism. As early as 1809 A.D. Rev. Williams Cowherd established the Bible Christian Church Salford, which initiated the advocacy of vegetarianism as one of its objectives. In…
Thinkers against Meat-eating Meat-eating has, however, been regarded as an inhuman, barbarous and unwholesome habit by most of the sane and sagely thinkers of all times. Even the Vedas which are believed to have initiated the sacrificial cult and advocated the killing of animals and eating meat as part of religious ritual otherwise denounced this…
Result of Meat-eating The habit obviously made man violent and cruel. He started fighting with fellow human beings and the result has been bloody and devastating wars. Man has indulged in unscrupulous, wanton. Wholesale destruction of life for political, religious or personal reasons, such as gluttony, gourmandize, luxury, lust, sport, rapacity, exploitation, loot and plunder….