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    Animals are sacred

    Feb 10, 2021 3 minutes
    DR LOKESH MAHARAJH

    VEGETARIANISM, known in Sanskrit as Shakahara, was a principle of health and environmental ethics throughout the Hindu world for thousands of years.

    In Hindu Dharma, life is of the Divine, an emanation of the source and part of a cosmic continuum. The ancient thinkers of our Sanathan Dharma held that each life form, even water and trees, possess consciousness and energy. Non-violence and ahimsa, the primary basis of vegetarianism, has long been central to the religious traditions of Hindu Dharma.

    Sivaya Subramuniyaswami says: “Hindus teach vegetarianism as a way to

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