Absolute Justice, Kindness and Kinship — Page 61
— Part I 60 a vast difference. Man has not only become alive to what he sees around him, but has also become aware of some forms of existence which he cannot see, hear or feel directly. He is provided with the faculty of imagining various forms of possible existence and it is this higher stage of evolutionary development which broadens his vision limitlessly, far beyond the confines of the planet earth. This awareness prepares him to fulfil the next higher role that he is destined to play and provides him with the capability of boundless progress. This new faculty builds a bridge between him and the Creator and provides him with a means of communion with God. As far as food for the sustenance of man is concerned, potentially he can be both carnivorous and herbivorous. Animal flesh has been a part of his diet from time immemorial. At the same time, he can also live entirely on vegetative products alone. This in itself illustrates the evolutionary direction of expansion. Apart from that, a very important social and moral question can be raised. One must also take into account a very important distinctive feature of man, viz. , that he has been given the option to follow his instinctive desires or to refuse to act according to their dictates. Here, when we re-examine the whole issue of man’s options and the exercise of his options, the need for legislation and code of conduct becomes self evident. Now returning to the same issue, which