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WINNING ARGUMENT 1/27
"How to Win an Argument with a Meat Eater"
Here now is The Hindu Virtue of Vegetarianism, with facts on the
dangers of meat-eating, The "new four food groups," Excerpts
from Food for the Spirit, and quotations from Scripture
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
This booklet was created in response to requests from readers of
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami's Publisher's Desk column in
Hinduism Today. Permission is hereby given to photocopy and
distribute it freely in your community. For a catalog of
Himalayan Academy Publications, write to 1819 Second Street,
Concord, California, 94519 USA. Phone: (510) 827-0237; Fax:
(510) 827-0137.
Published by
Himalayan Academy
California * Hawaii printed in USA
I. Must We Kill in order to Live?
Vegetarianism, known in Sanskrit as Shakahara, was for thousands
of years a principle of health and environmental ethics
throughout India. Though Muslim and Christian colonization
radically undermined and eroded this ideal, it remains to this
day a cardinal ethic of Hindu thought and practice. A subtle
sense of guilt persists among Hindus who eat meat, and there
exists an ongoing controversy on this issue on which we hope
this humble booklet will shed some light.
For India's ancient thinkers, life is seen as the very stuff of
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