Vegetarian Food     Who kill will be killed

All spiritual paths have  a code of ethics; so does the path of the saints. Kindness mercy and love for all creatures is the essential part of spiritual practice. Cruelty, hatred and killing for food or pleasure have no place on the path of saints. Kabir ask the devotee to be merciful and kind to all, because from the tiny ant to the mighty elephant all being belong to God. 

Saint Malukdas says: "The pain of all is the same, but the fool does not realize it; when even  the prick of a thorn hurts, why should men cut the throats of animals for their food ?  

Learning and knowledge of scriptures is of no consequence if the scholar is hard-hearted and cruel. Non-violence, compassion and a merciful heart are of greater value on the path to God-realization than intellectual knowledge and analytical excellence.

Kabir adds: "If a person is devoid of mercy and kindness and yet boasts of vast learning, he will go to hell in spite of his knowledge even of Saints' works."

Dharni Das expresses the same idea with Kabir-like acuity:             "They who eat meat and at the same time boast of their knowledge are like a naked woman trying to veil her face; seeing them, Dharni feels ashamed." The religion which propagates killing and meat-eating is deluding its followers. Kabir calls all such religions irreligious, and the piety they propound, impiety:

 Jesus on Vegetarian Diet

It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor anything whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.                                                                       Romans 14:21

Meats for the belly, and belly for meats; but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.                                                Corinthians 6: 13

In the Essene Gospel of John ( direct translation from the Aramaic of the pure original words of Jesus) , we have : But they answered Him: "Whither should we go, Master , ...for with you are the words of eternal life. Tell us, what are the sins we must shun, that we may nevermore see disease?"

Jesus answered: ."Be it so according to your faith," and He sat down among them, saying: .'It was said to them of olden time, 'Honor thy Heavenly Father and thy Earthly Mother, and their commandments, that thy days may be  long upon the earth.' And next was given this commandment: 'Thou shalt not kill,'    for life is given to all by God, and that which God has given, let not man take away.

 For I tell you truly, from one Mother proceeds all that lives upon the earth. Therefore he who kills, kills his brother. And from him will the Earthly Mother turn away, and will pluck from him her quickening breasts. And he .will be shunned by her angels, and Satan will have his dwelling in his body. And the flesh of slain beasts in his body will become his own tomb. For I tell you truly, he who kills, kills himself, and whosoever eats the flesh of slain beasts, eats of the body of death. And their death will become his death. For the wages of sin is death. Kill not, neither eat the flesh of your innocent prey, lest you become the slaves of Satan. For that is the path of sufferings, and it leads unto death. But do the Will of God, that his angels may serve you on the way of life. Obey, therefore, the words of God:

"Behold, I have given you every herb, bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to everything that creepeth upon the earth wherein there is breath of life, I give every green herb for meat.' Also the milk of everything that moveth and that liveth upon each shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given unto them, so I give their milk unto you. But flesh, and thc blood which quickens it, shall ye not eat."

And Jesus continued:

"God commanded your fore fathers, 'Thou shalt not kill.' But their heart was hardened and they killed. Then Moses desired that at least they should not kill men, and he suffered them to kill beasts. And then the heart of your forefathers was hardened yet more, and they killed men and beasts likewise. But I say to you: