1.) Vegetarianism

"I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.

The beautiful lines of Goldsmith occur to me as I tell you of my vegetarian fad:

No flock that range the valley free
To slaughter I condemn,
Taught by the Power that pities me
I learn to pity them."

 

 

2.) Bread Labour

"Bread labour is a veritable blessing to one who would observe Non-violence, worship Truth and make the observance of Brahmacharya a natural act.

This labour can truly be related to agriculture alone. But at present at any rate, everybody is not in a position to take to it. A person can therefore spin or weave, or take up carpentry or smithery, instead of tilling the soil, always regarding agriculture however to be the ideal."