23 May:
In Swami Vivekananda's letter to Maharaja of Khetri, how beautifully he writes about the cow-human theory interesting.
On our way we had the company of M. Ramnath , the charan headmaster of
the Jeypore noble’s school. He and I had a bout on my first coming out
of Khetri years ago, about vegetarianism. He had in the meantime got
hold of some American writers and pounced upon me with his
arguments from them. His author, he said, has proved to his
satisfaction that the human digestive organs including the teeth are
exactly like those of the cow. Therefore, man is designed by nature to
be a vegetarian animal. He is a very good and nice gentleman and I did
not want to disturb his confidence in the American hobbyist but one
thing was on the tip of my tongue—If our digestive apparatus is exactly
like that of a cow—we ought and must be able to eat and digest grass. In
that case poor Indians are fools to die of starvation in famine times
while their natural food, grass, is so abundant, and your Highness’
servants are fools to serve you while they only have to get up the
nearest hillock and get a bellyful of grass instead of undergoing all
the trouble of serving others!!! Grand American discovery indeed!!! Only
I hope the holy dungs of such human cows may become of great use to the
wonderful American author and his Indian disciples. Amen. So much for
the cow-human theory.
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