Vivekananda Mailing List-10/31/03

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The cow does not eat meat, nor does the sheep. Are they great Yogis,

great non-injurers (Ahimsakas)? Any fool may abstain from eating this

or that; surely that gives him no more distinction than to herbivorous

animals. The man who will mercilessly cheat widows and orphans and do

the vilest deeds for money is worse than any brute even if he lives

entirely on grass. The man whose heart never cherishes even the thought

of injury to any one, who rejoices at the prosperity of even his

greatest enemy, that man is the Bhakta, he is the Yogi, he is the Guru

of all, even though he lives every day of his life on the flesh of

swine.