EE7.5 - Ahiḿsá in Neohumanism

Ahiḿsá in Neohumanism – Excerpt A

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Neohumanism in a Nutshell Part 2 [a compilation]

Notes:

from “Devotional Sentiment and Neohumanism”
The Liberation of Intellect: Neohumanism

official source: Neohumanism in a Nutshell Part 2

this version: is as in “Devotional Sentiment and Neohumanism” in The Liberation of Intellect: Neohumanism, 4th edition, 2nd printing (obvious spelling, punctuation and typographical mistakes only may have been corrected). I.e., this is the most up-to-date version as of the present Electronic Edition.

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Once I read in a certain book that a great saint used to live only on locusts dipped in honey. That saint did not seriously consider that those little locusts also had vital life force throbbing in them.

Obviously human beings will have to behave rationally; they must maintain their existence while adjusting with the external environment. It is true that living creatures are the food for other living beings (jiivah jiivasya bhojanam); and indeed, the vegetables that we eat every day also have living cells in them. But regarding food, I have expressed my opinion in some of my books.⁽¹⁾

(1) See especially A Guide to Human Conduct (1961) and Caryácarya Part 3 (1965). –Trans.