A: Nonsense! . . . You may talk of not killing, but can you possibly avoid killing? What would you eat? Potatoes? . . . Has the potato no life? . . . You want to drink water? Examine a drop of water under a microscope and see how many millions of lives there are. You must breathe to live, yet with every breath you kill millions of creatures. Do you see any harm in that? You think you will lose your religion if you take a little fish. Such arguments are foolish. The ancient Hindus held no such ideas.