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as opium, tobacco and other drugs harmful to man? Why would
these things be necessary? He would just make things for the
happiness of human beings. To believe that God created everything
is the greatest contradiction.
Westerners do not believe in reincarnation and so they
believe that everything is made for their consumption. If they
believed in reincarnation, they would think about what would
happen to them in the next life. But such thoughts do not occur to
them.
Annoyance with Non-Vegetarians?
Dadashri: Which do you prefer, vegetarian or non-
vegetarian food?
Questioner: I have never eaten non-vegetarian food.
Dadashri: But have you ever admitted that it is a good
thing?
Questioner: No. I am a vegetarian. But that does not mean
that non-vegetarian food is bad.
Dadashri: That is true. I do not say t hat it is bad. Once
when I was traveling on an airplane, a wealthy businessman who
was Muslim sat next to me. He asked me if it bothered me that he
ate meat. I told him that eating with him did not bother me, except
that I would not share the same food. I told him that whatever he
did was fine and that it did not concern me. He asked me if I felt
negatively towards him because of his diet. I told him that he should
dismiss such a notion and that it was appropriate for him to eat
non-vegetarian food because he was born to a mother who also
was a non-vegetarian; it was in his blood. Nobody can refute
that. Only those who have been weaned on the milk of a vegetarian
mother are told not to eat meat. I told him that when Muslims eat
meat, they do not think about the advantages and disadvantages
of it.