Cow-protection can only be secured by cultivating universal friendliness, i.e. ahimsa.
One should not kill a living being, nor cause it to be killed, nor should one incite another to kill. Do not injure any being, either strong or weak, in the world.
The fullest application of ahimsa does make life impossible.
If we can refrain from harming others in our actions & words, we can start to give serious attention to actively doing good.
The essence of Buddhism is if you can, help others. If not, then at least refrain from hurting others.
'As I am, so are these. As are these, so am I.' Drawing the parallel to yourself, neither kill nor get others to kill.
To avoid causing terror to living beings, let the disciple refrain from eating meat.
A satyagrahi must ceaselessly strive to realize and live truth. And he must never contemplate hurting anyone by thought, word or deed.
He who has renounced all violence towards all living beings, weak or strong, who neither kills nor causes others to kill - him I do call a holy man.
My personal religion enables me to serve my countrymen without hurting the English or, for that matter, anybody else.
That's all I want- to do no harm.
Ahimsa is not mere negative non-injury. It is positive, cosmic love. It is the development of a mental attitude in which hatred is replaced by love. Ahimsa is true sacrifice. Ahimsa is forgiveness. Ahimsa is Sakti (power). Ahimsa is true strength.
All beings tremble before violence. All love life. All fear death. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?
A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.
All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away
None, while in flesh, can be entirely free from himsa, because one never completely renounces the will to live.
Ahimsa is nothing if not a well-balanced, exquisite consideration for one's neighbour, and an idle man is wanting in that elementary consideration.
He who harms living beings is, for that reason, not an ariya (a Noble One); he who does not harm any living being is called an ariya.
Comparing oneself to others in such terms as "Just as I am so are they, just as they are so am I," he should neither kill nor cause others to kill.
Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face.
One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble.
Ahimsa is the height of Kshatriya dharma as it represents the climax of fearlessness.
True ahimsa should wear a smile even on a deathbed brought about by an assailant. It is only with that ahimsa that we can befriend our opponents and win their love.
The test of Ahimsa is absence of jealousy.
The principal tenet of Jainism is non-harming. Observant Jains will literally not harm a fly. Fundamentalist Jainism and fundamentalist Islam do not have the same consequences, neither logically nor behaviorally.
