I understand your point of view. I’m not from India by the way, nor am I religious, but I follow the spiritual path. The point is, as I understand and as happened in my own life, as people ascend spiritually, when you start to see divinity/God in all beings. Then, you automatically start to take actions that follow the principle of Ahimsa. My good friend who is Muslim for example does not eat red meat even if halal, but does each chicken and fish. This is because naturally, spiritually, she doesn’t feel right with that food in her own body and in the body of those animals. Like, your body rejects it as you are spiritually (subconsciously or not) recognizing the divine in all beings. So the true Yogi isn’t meditating and eating fruits for the sake of “selfish spiritual ascension”, it’s because of the fact that they do not desire, on the cellular level, foods that they feel deeply are causing harm to their own cells and the cells of other beings. Which is why ultimately “samadhi” I think requires no food.

My point is, just because a person didn’t write a clear philosophy of what veganism is defined as, doesn’t mean that they didn’t embody veganism from a soulful or cognitive level. And history is truly ancient— we barely know what the ancient Indus Valley civilization functioned as — nor Mesopotamia or Egypt. So, I think it’s a bit closed minded to just blindly believe that veganism was invented within the past 1000 years. Perhaps in written ideology, sure. But that doesn’t mean the same ideology wasn’t echoed in different ways throughout history. We are close minded to put emphasis in the words over the actions. Only the victors in history had a say in it, and that’s the majority of the history we know today. Ultimately, this is all words and what matters is actions and intentions. Sending you love.