VEGETARIANISM

Arthur E. Powell ... of the Theosophical Society ... has beautifully said the following:

" A physical body nourished on impure food will produce a correspondingly impure astral body, whilst a physical body fed on clean food and drink will help to purify the astral vehicle. "

" It is impossible to make the physical body coarse and at the same time to organize the astral and mental bodies for finer purposes ... neither is it possible to have a pure physical body with impure mental and astral bodies. All three bodies are thus inter-dependent. "

" Carnivorous diet is fatal to anything like real occult development, and those who adopt it are throwing serious and unnecessary difficulties in their own way, for flesh blood intensifies all the undesirable elements and passions of the lower planes. "

Rashmi Uday Singh wrote in " Times of India " the following:

" Medical studies prove that a vegetarian diet is easier to digest, provides a wider range of nutrients and imposes fewer burdens and impurities on the body. The vegetarian elephant and horse demolish any apprehension about veggies being mental or physical weaklings. Other muscular and intelligent animals ... the cow, giraffe, zebra, rhinoceros, the apes and more ... are vegetarians too. "

" In a large measure, the destruction of ancient rain forests, loss of top soils and the consequent increase of water impurities have all been traced to the single fact of creating pasture lands for livestock being reared for meat. Millions of animals are bred for meat production. If they were not bred and the vegetation was used to feed people, there would be no poverty in the world. "

	" Everyone in the business : the on who abets, the one who cuts, the one who kills, the one who sells, the one who prepares, the one who eats ... all are killers ! "                                         Sri Krishna		" For fear of causing terror to living beings ... let the Bodhisatva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion refrain from eating flesh ! "                          Gautama Buddha
	" And the flesh of slain beasts in his body will become his own tomb. For I tell you truly, he who kills, kills himself, and who so eats the flesh of slain beasts, eats the body of death ! "                            Jesus Christ		" God doesn't like the flesh and blood that you offer as sacrifice. He expects nothing but your absolute faith ! "                                                  Quran
	" People who eat meat are responsible for all the pain that grows out of meat-eating, and which is necessitated by the use of sentient animals as food ! "                                    Annie Besant		" It is both auspicious and peaceful for people to choose vegetarinism. "                                   Albert Einstein
	" As long as there are slaughter houses, there will be battle fields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism ! "                                       Leo Tolstoy		" The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. "                              Mahatma Gandhi
	" To feed on death is to become food for death. To live by other's pain is to become a prey for pain. So has decreed the omni-will. Know that and choose your course ! "                                    Mikhail Naimy