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 256. If the world desireth not meat for eating, there will be none to offer it for sale.

257. If a man can only realise to himself the agony and pain suffered by other living beings, he would not desire to eat flesh-meat.

258. Behold the men who have escaped from the bonds of illusion and ignorance: they eat not the flesh from which life hath flown out.

259. To abstain from the killing and eating of living things is better than to perform a thousand sacrifices in the sacrificial fire.

260. Behold the man who killeth not and abstaineth from flesh-meat : all the world joineth hands to do him reverence.

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