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Pythagoras is essentially the mouthpiece for a discussion by Ovid on change as a fundamental principle in nature.
However, it starts and ends with a plea for vegetarianism, based on the famous Pythagorean doctrine of Metempsychosis or Reincarnation, which implies that animal slaughter may mean dispossessing the soul of some relative.
Yes!!! Indian Hindu philosophy ftw <3
The idea of the soul moving from one body to another introduces a long series of examples of change, including the annual seasons, the ageing human body and various other phenomena, of a factual or miraculous kind, which Ovid has derived from Hellenistic scholarship.
The present turns into the past and the future replaces the present; [185] every moment that passes is new and eternally changing.
Exactly! Wow what a final chapter. The rest of the book is crap but this is redeeming, reincarnation is the law of life and that is change
“Our bodies also are constantly changing and never at rest; [215] what we were once and we are today, we shall not be tomorrow.
Core of Vedanta
Nothing at all in the world can perish, you have to believe me; [255] things merely vary and change their appearance. What we call birth is merely becoming a different entity; what we call death is ceasing to be the same.
Love love love Hinduism
How evil a habit is formed, what an impious shedding of human blood is contrived, when the throat of a calf is slit with a knife, [465] and the ears of the butcher are deaf to its mother’s pitiful lowing!
If an animal harms you, destroy it; but do no more than destroy it. Cleave to a diet that sheds no blood and is kind to all creatures.”
Ahimsa :)
