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Oct 25
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On life, society and other application of his ideas

Gandhi was brought up as a vegetarian by his devout Hindu mother. The idea of vegetarianism is deeply ingrained in Hindu Vaishnavism and Jain traditions in India, such as in his native Gujarat, where meat is considered as a form of food obtained by violence to animals. Gandhi’s rationale for vegetarianism was largely along those found in Hindu and Jain texts.

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