What graciousness can one command
Who feeds his flesh by flesh gourmand.
The thriftless have no property
And flesh-eaters have no pity.
Who wields a steel is steel-hearted
Who tastes body is hard-hearted.
If merciless it is to kill,
To kill and eat is disgraceful.
Off with flesh; a life you save
The eater hell's mouth shall not waive.
None would kill and sell the flesh
For eating it if they don't wish.
From eating flesh men must abstain
If they but feel the being's pain.
Whose mind from illusion is freed
Refuse on lifeless flesh to feed.
Not to-kill-and-eat, truly
Excels thousand pourings of ghee!
AH lives shall lift their palms to him
Who eats not flesh nor kills with whim.
ABSTINENCE FROM FLESH
