I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live, I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species.
A votary of ahimsa always prays for ultimate deliverance from the bondage of the flesh.
None, while in flesh, can be entirely free from himsa, because one never completely renounces the will to live.
My national service is part of my training for freeing my soul from the bondage of the flesh.
Man is born of woman, he is flesh of her flesh and bone of her bone.