2-...2/5....re.....Is vegetarianism an essential part of spiritual evolution?

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Dear Friends:

 

I'd like to add one comment.

 

I haven't been a total vegetarian in all my 30+ years of meditating...and

evolving...but...

 

when I'm able to I often feel so great and lately do notice feeling much

more refined and subtle without the more course qualities of meat.

 

I think, therefore it would be helpful but not as crucial as meditation,

itself for example.

 

Ciao

 

Mark Kincaid

 

 

 

> surya vishnubhotla <surya_prakashv

>

> Thu, 5 Feb 2004 08:20:01 -0800 (PST)

>

> RE: Is vegetarianism an essential part of spiritual evolution?

>

> Dear Friends,

>

> I totally accept that Vegtarian food is good and leads

> to better mental tendencies. However I am not totally

> for the idea that vegetarian food is a must for

> spiritual evolution ..

>

> there are sects of tantric cults where drinking wine

> eating meat and having sex (under certain stipulated

> conditions) that are supposed to take a person to

> spiritual high ...

>

> Comming to the life force etc .. I dont think plants

> have greater life force than Animals ... a apple that

> is cut open rots quite fast too !!

>

> "Hinduism is a way of life" ... truth is god and his

> onness with everything else !

>

> Surya.

>

> --- "Calla, Raman" <rcalla wrote:

>> Hi Sanjay.

>>

>> Remember that Hinduism is the truth.

>>

>> Regards!

>>

>> RC

>>

>>

>> sanjaytechnology

>> [sanjaytechnology]

>> Wednesday, February 04, 2004 9:27 PM

>>

>> Is vegetarianism an essential part of

>> spiritual evolution?

>>

>>

>> All:

>>

>> Is vegetarian food a remedy :-) ? The answer will

>> evolve right

>> here...hopefully....

>>

>> Time and again human beings question "Why give up

>> non-vegetarian

>> food to attain a first step towards spirituality?" I

>> have made a

>> humble attempt to answer this questions from my

>> heart. So please

>> bear with me and go through this posting.

>>

>> I dont care whether you eat a small or a large

>> quantity of meat. I

>> am not an orthodox Hindu. I am interested only in

>> the Truth. I would

>> extrapolate and simply say that you perform a simple

>> experiment. Put

>> a slice of meat on one plate, a slice of fish on

>> another, some eggs

>> on a 3rd plate, and some fruit on a 4th plate. Then

>> look at the

>> plates every two hours and see which food rots

>> first. That will make

>> you understand which food retains their beauty and

>> fragrance and

>> life energy.

>>

>> What flesh do those animals eat whose flesh people

>> eat? What meat do

>> those animals eat to fatten themselves? Are they fed

>> meat, or do

>> they eat grass and cereals? If we eat the same thing

>> that they eat,

>> we will also have meat in our bodies. Its not that

>> we have to eat

>> meat to produce meat in our bodies.

>>

>> There are very practical reasons for eating

>> vegetarian food. Plants

>> are full of life energy, but there is no life energy

>> in meat. The

>> food we eat is split into 3 parts during the

>> digestive process The

>> highest and subtlest portion of it, which is the

>> energy itself,

>> becomes one with "prana", the life force. The middle

>> portion turns

>> into flesh. The inferior matter becomes waste and is

>> expelled from

>> the system. From meat one gets only the middle

>> portion, which is

>> flesh. One cannot derive any of the Life Force from

>> it.

>>

>> Someone said once " I always wash my body in the

>> morning, but by

>> evening it begins to smell very badly. Why is is

>> that some people's

>> bodies do not smell, even though they have not taken

>> a bath for so

>> long? The answes is right here.. Most of the time

>> people eat only

>> stale food that has only bad odors. If you do not

>> eat that kind of

>> food, there will be no odors.

>>

>> Remember meat is created from food.

>>

>> Most of the time we only live by listening to other

>> people and

>> seeing what others do. We do not understand and act

>> by ourselves.

>> Wheat, ghee, milk and vegetables are very good for

>> us. If we eat

>> this kind of food, our body never stinks because

>> that food is very

>> pure.

>>

>> The body is born of food, it is sustained by food,

>> and in the end it

>> will merge into food. Eating is also Yoga. If you

>> eat easily

>> digestible pure, and nourishing food and eat it

>> punctually, then it

>> will be very good for spiritual growth.

>>

>> I am not talking Hinduism; I am uttering the truth.

>> If people arue

>> and say "meat id very good for us", then why are

>> people in the West

>> so fond of salads? It is because they derive "LIFE

>> FORCE" from

>> salads :-).

>>

>> Aum Shanti Shanti Shanti.

>>

>> --Sanjay Aggarwal

>>

>>

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