BE A VEGETARIAN STAROnce upon a time in a village in ancient India, there was a little goat and a priest. The priest wanted to sacrifice the goat to the gods. He raised his arm to cut the goat’s throat, when suddenly the goat began to laugh. The priest stopped, amazed and asked the goat, “Why do you laugh? Don’t you know that I’m about to cut your throat?" “Oh yes” said the goat, "after 499 times dying and being reborn as a goat, I will be reborn as a human being.” Then the little goat began to cry. The high priest said, “Why now are you crying?” And the little goat replied, “For you, poor priest. 500 lives ago, I too was a high priest and sacrificed goats to the gods.” The priest dropped to his knees, saying, “Forgive me, I beg you. From now on, I will be the guardian and protector of every goat in the land.”
The above tale, which is so wonderfully narrated in the opening scene of the movie – “Little Buddha”, explains to us in no uncertain terms about the horrors related to the practice of killing animals. Today, a surprisingly large number of people across the world are becoming vegetarians by choice. They do not practice religions or belong to races/communities that advocate vegetarianism. They do so as a matter of their individual and conscious choice. Well, if you consider the reasons, it is not so surprising that all these people have made this choice. Let us understand why exactly we should all adopt this more humane way of life. |
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