Make Diwali as a holy festival not a dead animal funeral.

To all our readers please avoid eating animals in your life and be compassionate to all living beings. Today is Diwali celebration kindly celebrate this festival in a spiritual mood by offering prasadam to your friends. Do not offer dead animals to your guests. If you offer animals to your guests then it is not a festival anymore it is a funeral. Make Diwali a holy festival, not a dead animal funeral.

How do you feel when someone hurts you? Do you like it? Of course, you don't.

Now, think about how others feel if we hurt them. Do they feel good? Naturally, they will feel bad.

Lord Mahavira said you should not say or do anything to others that you would not like to have done to you. Everybody in this world wants to be happy. No one likes to be hurt.

The message of Lord Mahavira is that we should love everybody and should not hurt anybody. We should try to help others and make them happy. To understand the pain and unhappiness that others are experiencing is compassion. The same is true about nonviolence (Ahimsa). Compassion is one of the main pillars of human life, we should create compassionate religion in this world.

Ahimsa has been given the most important part. Lord Mahavira became Arihant by adopting supreme compassion in his life. His compassion seems to have reached a climax during his encounter with the poisonous snake Chandkaushik. He was tortured by many and even then not only he forgave them but he felt compassion toward them.

Compassionate people are rewarded by acquiring other virtues. Mahavira's teachings are based on compassion to all living beings. Mahavira emphasizes the observance of verbal and mental compassion also. We should be compassionate and friendly towards all and should have no enmity for anyone.