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REALITY DAWNS UPON HIM ALONE .........
communication and commutation and habitation we are not sure whether the quality of homo sapiens has improved proportionally or even incrementally.
To live according to Nature and being simple is not all that simple and easy for the modern man who has almost lost his roots in Nature. One has to necessarily be very determined to live a life of higher values or better higher laws. The primary higher law is to be a vegetarian for after all non vegetarian food it is argued is chosen to do hard work. For simple living it is not necessary to slog 16 to 18 hours of the day and earn wages to be squandered on unnecessary food, junk and non vegetarian and on buildings not required for personal occupation and member ship of clubs that are never utilised etc., It is interesting to observe that the work required to afford meat, requires meat to be eaten a funny vicious circle that man irrationally chooses. In the evolutionary text as we are evolving towards more civility, less brutality, more consciousness, less meaningless sport, non vegetarian food cannot be a sane choice. Chastity which is a casualty in the modern times it should be noted with care and attention is the greatest virtue. To quote Henry Thoreau from his experiments at Walden “what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness and the like, are
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