'I have existence and I value it so much. So have all the beings on earth and they too try to preserve it. Then how can I kill even the tiniest creature just to satiate my palate.'
At the age of 12 Rumi became a vegetarian in a meat-eating Muslim world. As Unitives the idea of deliberately harming any facet of the Living One is utterly abhorrent. To harm the One is to harm ourselves.
