THE KURAL
256. If the world desireth not meat for eating, there will be none to offer it for sale.
257. 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.
258. Behold the men who have escaped from the bonds of illusion and ignorance: they eat not the flesh from which life hath flown out.
259. To abstain from the killing and eating of living things is better than to perform a thousand sacrifices in the sacrificial fire.
260. Behold the man who killeth not and abstaineth from flesh-meat : all the world joineth hands to do him reverence.
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