Give Up Meat

1.Eating meat to swell how can pity? 2.Protect hoarding as to mercy abjure meat. 3.Heart of tasting meat as armed unkind. 4.Mercy is unkilling, unkind kills, flesh-eating unrighteous. 5.Life, non-eating flesh even hell retains eater. 6.If unkill for flesh-eating none sell it. 7.Avoid flesh-eating if realizing sufferings of beings. 8.Pure from illusion evades eating life-less flesh. 9.Avoiding mutton betters thousand ghee-burning sacrificial rituals. 10.All beings revere kind non-eaters of meat. ………………………………… Dedicated to Thiruvalluvar(31B.C), the author in Tamil Translated by S.Kandasamy, MUSIRI, TAMILNADU, INDIA Published in poetrysoup.com on 13-12-13