Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Ved�nta Philosophy: Lecture of Sw�mi Abhed�nanda, Why a Hindu Is a Vegetarian; Delivered Before the Vegetarian Society, New York, March 22, 1898
When Hindu boys and girls go to school and read their first lessons they learn the highest humanitarian principles, and as they grow older theyare kind tow ard all living creatures. They are taught: Be kind to lower animals. Do not kill them for your food, because the natural food of man is not an animal. I learned in the first book of Sanskrit: When enough of nourishment can easily be obtained from that which grows spontaneously on the earth, who will commit such a great sin as to kill animals for filling his stomach 'and deriving a little pleasure of taste Compare the eater with the animal that is eaten. The one haspleasure which lasts for a few seconds, and the other is deprived of all the pleasures of life. Seneca expressed a similar idea when he said: Vegetables are sufficient food for the stomach into which we now stuff valuable lives.
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