XXVI
Abjuring of Flesh-Meat
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How can he feel pity, who eateth other flesh in order to fatten his own?
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Riches are not for the thriftless: even so pity is not for those that eat meat.
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The heart of the man that tasteth flesh turneth not towards good, even as the heart of him that is armed with steel.
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The killing of animals is veritable hardness of heart: but the eating of their flesh is iniquity indeed.
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In non-eating of flesh is Life: if thou eat, the pit of hell will not open its mouth to let thee out.
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If the world desireth not meat for eating, there will be none to offer it for sale.
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If a man can only realise to himself the agony and pain suffered by other living beings, he would not desire to eat flesh-meat.
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Behold the men who have escaped from the bonds of illusion and ignorance: they eat not the flesh from which life hath flown out.
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To abstain from the killing and eating of living things is better than to perform a thousand sacrifices in the sacrificial fire.
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Behold the man who killeth not and abstaineth from flesh-meat: all the world joineth hands to do him reverence.