Guest guest Posted June 19, 2008 Report Share Posted June 19, 2008 On what grounds do you prohibit meat-eating? On medical, psychological, moral and spiritual grounds. The mind is made up of the essence of the food that a man takes. Tamasic food results in a Tamasic mind. Meat is Tamasic and hence should be avoided. When an animal is killed or butchered, a contraction of its nervous system takes place on account of fear. (And you might have felt certain disturbances in your own stomach when you have experienced fear.) This leads to the secretion of certain poisons in the liver, etc., of the animal. These poisons are cumulative in their nature and are never removed or lost during the process of boiling or cooking meat. Hence, meat-eating is poisonous and dangerous in the long run. There is no difference between you and an animal when both are considered as souls inhabiting the bodies. From whichever source you derive the right to live and enjoy in this material body, from that very same source, the souls of these animals have derived equal rights to live and enjoy in their material bodies. Hence, you do not possess the moral right to kill a single living being, however small it may be. Last. but not the least, there is One Consciousness which has expressed itself in the form of the various beings, animate and inanimate. And this makes you one with all beings. When you have known this, will you consciously hurt any being? Can you willingly and joyously cut your own fingers and cook them and eat them? Knowing this oneness alone is the purpose of your coming again and again into the mundane plane. You can know, feel and experience this oneness only when you stop injuring and hurting others and begin to love all as your own Self. Verily, the animals are thy own Self. Thou alone art residing in these animals as the individual souls and thou alone art manifest in the form of the material bodies in which these souls reside. Hence, wake up; stop meat-eating and butchering the animals. Develop love for them and promote oneness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 19, 2008 Report Share Posted June 19, 2008 It is much more than that - the simple meat eating. The vegetables also have life and it is confirmed in lab that they also fear their lives. They shrink, when they fear. They are animate and even if they are not, they are still part of that consciousness as inanimate. Meat eating and vegetable eating are same. The point to understand is not, meat eating or non meat eating. The point to understand is the the existence as it is and our role in that. Till we have individuality, a personality, these discussions will keep on going. When we truly consider ourselves as part of consciousness, everything dissolves, and then there is no difference between meat and non meat. --- On Wed, 18/6/08, divinesprt <divinesprt wrote: divinesprt <divinesprt Meat Eating Wednesday, 18 June, 2008, 11:29 PM On what grounds do you prohibit meat-eating? On medical, psychological, moral and spiritual grounds. The mind is made up of the essence of the food that a man takes. Tamasic food results in a Tamasic mind. Meat is Tamasic and hence should be avoided. When an animal is killed or butchered, a contraction of its nervous system takes place on account of fear. (And you might have felt certain disturbances in your own stomach when you have experienced fear.) This leads to the secretion of certain poisons in the liver, etc., of the animal. These poisons are cumulative in their nature and are never removed or lost during the process of boiling or cooking meat. Hence, meat-eating is poisonous and dangerous in the long run. There is no difference between you and an animal when both are considered as souls inhabiting the bodies. From whichever source you derive the right to live and enjoy in this material body, from that very same source, the souls of these animals have derived equal rights to live and enjoy in their material bodies. Hence, you do not possess the moral right to kill a single living being, however small it may be. Last. but not the least, there is One Consciousness which has expressed itself in the form of the various beings, animate and inanimate. And this makes you one with all beings. When you have known this, will you consciously hurt any being? Can you willingly and joyously cut your own fingers and cook them and eat them? Knowing this oneness alone is the purpose of your coming again and again into the mundane plane. You can know, feel and experience this oneness only when you stop injuring and hurting others and begin to love all as your own Self. Verily, the animals are thy own Self. Thou alone art residing in these animals as the individual souls and thou alone art manifest in the form of the material bodies in which these souls reside. Hence, wake up; stop meat-eating and butchering the animals. Develop love for them and promote oneness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 19, 2008 Report Share Posted June 19, 2008 Man and all animals are created in the very same time era. Eating meat is therefore like eating your brother. The vegetable kingdom has been created during a time era BEFORE the animal/human kingdom. Plant and vegetables were created in order to feed the creatures that were created after the plant kingdom. johan On Behalf Of rajeeva ranjan Thursday, June 19, 2008 8:05 AM Re: Meat Eating It is much more than that - the simple meat eating. The vegetables also have life and it is confirmed in lab that they also fear their lives. They shrink, when they fear. They are animate and even if they are not, they are still part of that consciousness as inanimate. Meat eating and vegetable eating are same. The point to understand is not, meat eating or non meat eating. The point to understand is the the existence as it is and our role in that. Till we have individuality, a personality, these discussions will keep on going. When we truly consider ourselves as part of consciousness, everything dissolves, and then there is no difference between meat and non meat. --- On Wed, 18/6/08, divinesprt <divinesprt <divinesprt%40> > wrote: divinesprt <divinesprt <divinesprt%40> > Meat Eating <%40> Wednesday, 18 June, 2008, 11:29 PM On what grounds do you prohibit meat-eating? On medical, psychological, moral and spiritual grounds. The mind is made up of the essence of the food that a man takes. Tamasic food results in a Tamasic mind. Meat is Tamasic and hence should be avoided. When an animal is killed or butchered, a contraction of its nervous system takes place on account of fear. (And you might have felt certain disturbances in your own stomach when you have experienced fear.) This leads to the secretion of certain poisons in the liver, etc., of the animal. These poisons are cumulative in their nature and are never removed or lost during the process of boiling or cooking meat. Hence, meat-eating is poisonous and dangerous in the long run. There is no difference between you and an animal when both are considered as souls inhabiting the bodies. From whichever source you derive the right to live and enjoy in this material body, from that very same source, the souls of these animals have derived equal rights to live and enjoy in their material bodies. Hence, you do not possess the moral right to kill a single living being, however small it may be. Last. but not the least, there is One Consciousness which has expressed itself in the form of the various beings, animate and inanimate. And this makes you one with all beings. When you have known this, will you consciously hurt any being? Can you willingly and joyously cut your own fingers and cook them and eat them? Knowing this oneness alone is the purpose of your coming again and again into the mundane plane. You can know, feel and experience this oneness only when you stop injuring and hurting others and begin to love all as your own Self. Verily, the animals are thy own Self. Thou alone art residing in these animals as the individual souls and thou alone art manifest in the form of the material bodies in which these souls reside. Hence, wake up; stop meat-eating and butchering the animals. Develop love for them and promote oneness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 19, 2008 Report Share Posted June 19, 2008 Definitely all plants have life in it.But we are not killing it by taking the fruits,leaves or even the root, it will still grow.It is recommended also to continue the life cycle.Think about the other case of taking a pound of flesh from the body of an animal as our food,definitely it will die of bleeding.So we can't avoid killing the creature.On the contrary if we consume vegetarin food according to our need, the plants will continue to grow after that .We have no right to kill these plants/trees also - rajeeva ranjan Cc: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:34:39 +0530 (IST) Re: Meat Eating It is much more than that - the simple meat eating. The vegetables also have life and it is confirmed in lab that they also fear their lives. They shrink, when they fear. They are animate and even if they are not, they are still part of that consciousness as inanimate. Meat eating and vegetable eating are same. The point to understand is not, meat eating or non meat eating. The point to understand is the the existence as it is and our role in that. Till we have individuality, a personality, these discussions will keep on going. When we truly consider ourselves as part of consciousness, everything dissolves, and then there is no difference between meat and non meat. --- On Wed, 18/6/08, divinesprt & lt;divinesprt & gt; wrote: divinesprt & lt;divinesprt & gt; Meat Eating Wednesday, 18 June, 2008, 11:29 PM On what grounds do you prohibit meat-eating? On medical, psychological, moral and spiritual grounds. The mind is made up of the essence of the food that a man takes. Tamasic food results in a Tamasic mind. Meat is Tamasic and hence should be avoided. When an animal is killed or butchered, a contraction of its nervous system takes place on account of fear. (And you might have felt certain disturbances in your own stomach when you have experienced fear.) This leads to the secretion of certain poisons in the liver, etc., of the animal. These poisons are cumulative in their nature and are never removed or lost during the process of boiling or cooking meat. Hence, meat-eating is poisonous and dangerous in the long run. There is no difference between you and an animal when both are considered as souls inhabiting the bodies. From whichever source you derive the right to live and enjoy in this material body, from that very same source, the souls of these animals have derived equal rights to live and enjoy in their material bodies. Hence, you do not possess the moral right to kill a single living being, however small it may be. Last. but not the least, there is One Consciousness which has expressed itself in the form of the various beings, animate and inanimate. And this makes you one with all beings. When you have known this, will you consciously hurt any being? Can you willingly and joyously cut your own fingers and cook them and eat them? Knowing this oneness alone is the purpose of your coming again and again into the mundane plane. You can know, feel and experience this oneness only when you stop injuring and hurting others and begin to love all as your own Self. Verily, the animals are thy own Self. Thou alone art residing in these animals as the individual souls and thou alone art manifest in the form of the material bodies in which these souls reside. Hence, wake up; stop meat-eating and butchering the animals. Develop love for them and promote oneness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 19, 2008 Report Share Posted June 19, 2008 But in the name of development, whether it is a road or factory or resort, we uproot the trees, make the mountains bald of greeneries, and nobody feels bad about that. And that includes vegetarians also. There our development needs become bigger than the need for anything else. We all justify our actions, as they are OURS. Even the environmental activists are more concerend about the name their organisation gets in taking up an issue rather than the issue itself. It is time, we see our own actions deeply inside us and understand the life, as it is. Acceptance to what is, is the simplest and yet, most difficult task for all of us, due to the existence of mind. > --- On Thu, 19/6/08, SUBRAMANYAN KARTHA B (bala2004) > <bala2004 wrote: > > SUBRAMANYAN KARTHA B (bala2004) > <bala2004 > Re: Meat Eating > " rajeeva ranjan " > <rajeeva_ranjan2002 > Cc: > Thursday, 19 June, 2008, 4:12 AM > > Definitely all plants have life in it.But we are not > killing it by taking the fruits,leaves or even the root, it > will still grow.It is recommended also to continue the life > cycle.Think about the other case of taking a pound of flesh > from the body of an animal as our food,definitely it will > die of bleeding.So we can't avoid killing the > creature.On the contrary if we consume vegetarin food > according to our need, the plants will continue to grow > after that .We have no right to kill these plants/trees > also > > - > rajeeva ranjan > > Cc: > Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:34:39 +0530 (IST) > Re: Meat Eating > > It is much more than that - the simple meat eating. The > vegetables also have life and it is confirmed in lab that > they also fear their lives. They shrink, when they fear. > They are animate and even if they are not, they are still > part of that consciousness as inanimate. Meat eating and > vegetable eating are same. > > The point to understand is not, meat eating or non meat > eating. The point to understand is the the existence as it > is and our role in that. Till we have individuality, a > personality, these discussions will keep on going. When we > truly consider ourselves as part of consciousness, > everything dissolves, and then there is no difference > between meat and non meat. > > --- On Wed, 18/6/08, divinesprt <divinesprt (AT) (DOT) > com> wrote: > > divinesprt <divinesprt > > Meat Eating > > Wednesday, 18 June, 2008, 11:29 PM > > On what grounds do you prohibit meat-eating? On medical, > psychological, moral and spiritual grounds. The mind is > made up of > the essence of the food that a man takes. Tamasic food > results in a > Tamasic mind. Meat is Tamasic and hence should be avoided. > When an > animal is killed or butchered, a contraction of its nervous > system > takes place on account of fear. (And you might have felt > certain > disturbances in your own stomach when you have experienced > fear.) > This leads to the secretion of certain poisons in the > liver, etc., of > the animal. These poisons are cumulative in their nature > and are > never removed or lost during the process of boiling or > cooking meat. > Hence, meat-eating is poisonous and dangerous in the long > run. There > is no difference between you and an animal when both are > considered > as souls inhabiting the bodies. From whichever source you > derive the > right to live and enjoy in this material body, from that > very same > source, the souls of these animals have derived equal > rights to live > and enjoy in their material bodies. Hence, you do not > possess the > moral right to kill a single living being, however small it > may be. > Last. but not the least, there is One Consciousness which > has > expressed itself in the form of the various beings, animate > and > inanimate. And this makes you one with all beings. When you > have > known this, will you consciously hurt any being? Can you > willingly > and joyously cut your own fingers and cook them and eat > them? Knowing > this oneness alone is the purpose of your coming again and > again into > the mundane plane. You can know, feel and experience this > oneness > only when you stop injuring and hurting others and begin to > love all > as your own Self. Verily, the animals are thy own Self. > Thou alone > art residing in these animals as the individual souls and > thou alone > art manifest in the form of the material bodies in which > these souls > reside. Hence, wake up; stop meat-eating and butchering the > animals. > Develop love for them and promote oneness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 19, 2008 Report Share Posted June 19, 2008 well. yesterday(because of my car accident) i had to go the the brugmann clinic in laken(brussels). The doctor used accupuncture but olso an instrument with(never saw that) a round instrument, she was holding on one side, and put on my brain. Each time i got an electric shock. That is what we do to kill animals. Every time i tought it was finished. bang! i'm thinking now.... they will find a solution for me.... for the whole abattoir anderlecht.....etc.... id on't know dolma -------Oorspronkelijk bericht------- Van: divinesprt Datum: 06/19/08 05:30:02 Aan: Onderwerp: Meat Eating On what grounds do you prohibit meat-eating? On medical, psychological, moral and spiritual grounds. The mind is made up of the essence of the food that a man takes. Tamasic food results in a Tamasic mind. Meat is Tamasic and hence should be avoided. When an animal is killed or butchered, a contraction of its nervous system takes place on account of fear. (And you might have felt certain disturbances in your own stomach when you have experienced fear.) This leads to the secretion of certain poisons in the liver, etc., of the animal. These poisons are cumulative in their nature and are never removed or lost during the process of boiling or cooking meat. Hence, meat-eating is poisonous and dangerous in the long run. There is no difference between you and an animal when both are considered as souls inhabiting the bodies. From whichever source you derive the right to live and enjoy in this material body, from that very same source, the souls of these animals have derived equal rights to live and enjoy in their material bodies. Hence, you do not possess the moral right to kill a single living being, however small it may be. Last. but not the least, there is One Consciousness which has expressed itself in the form of the various beings, animate and inanimate. And this makes you one with all beings. When you have known this, will you consciously hurt any being? Can you willingly and joyously cut your own fingers and cook them and eat them? Knowing this oneness alone is the purpose of your coming again and again into the mundane plane. You can know, feel and experience this oneness only when you stop injuring and hurting others and begin to love all as your own Self. Verily, the animals are thy own Self. Thou alone art residing in these animals as the individual souls and thou alone art manifest in the form of the material bodies in which these souls reside. Hence, wake up; stop meat-eating and butchering the animals. Develop love for them and promote oneness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 20, 2008 Report Share Posted June 20, 2008 hi, i perfectly agree with Mr. Rajeev in accepting this fact there is little or no difference between meat eating or non-meat eating. there are certain laws and modus operandi of the cycle of existence that has to be understood and such facts cannot be termed antagonistic to spirituality. for example:- when a tiger kills a deer, we call it law, but when man eats meat we call it sin. this is preposterous. secondly, no one can live a single moment without the extinction of other sentient/animate objects as has been rightly pointed out by none other than the most revered Swami Vivekananda. for example:- every moment millions of microbes are dying because of our breathing process. should we then stop breathing? what is required is to follow the law of nature, follow the naturalness, that is what is real spirituality. to be in sync and harmony with your naturality is the path of least resistance and hence most amenable to our spiritual growth. --- On Thu, 19/6/08, rajeeva ranjan <rajeeva_ranjan2002 wrote: rajeeva ranjan <rajeeva_ranjan2002 Re: Meat Eating Thursday, 19 June, 2008, 11:34 AM It is much more than that - the simple meat eating. The vegetables also have life and it is confirmed in lab that they also fear their lives. They shrink, when they fear. They are animate and even if they are not, they are still part of that consciousness as inanimate. Meat eating and vegetable eating are same. The point to understand is not, meat eating or non meat eating. The point to understand is the the existence as it is and our role in that. Till we have individuality, a personality, these discussions will keep on going. When we truly consider ourselves as part of consciousness, everything dissolves, and then there is no difference between meat and non meat. --- On Wed, 18/6/08, divinesprt <divinesprt > wrote: divinesprt <divinesprt > Meat Eating Wednesday, 18 June, 2008, 11:29 PM On what grounds do you prohibit meat-eating? On medical, psychological, moral and spiritual grounds. The mind is made up of the essence of the food that a man takes. Tamasic food results in a Tamasic mind. Meat is Tamasic and hence should be avoided. When an animal is killed or butchered, a contraction of its nervous system takes place on account of fear. (And you might have felt certain disturbances in your own stomach when you have experienced fear.) This leads to the secretion of certain poisons in the liver, etc., of the animal. These poisons are cumulative in their nature and are never removed or lost during the process of boiling or cooking meat. Hence, meat-eating is poisonous and dangerous in the long run. There is no difference between you and an animal when both are considered as souls inhabiting the bodies. From whichever source you derive the right to live and enjoy in this material body, from that very same source, the souls of these animals have derived equal rights to live and enjoy in their material bodies. Hence, you do not possess the moral right to kill a single living being, however small it may be. Last. but not the least, there is One Consciousness which has expressed itself in the form of the various beings, animate and inanimate. And this makes you one with all beings. When you have known this, will you consciously hurt any being? Can you willingly and joyously cut your own fingers and cook them and eat them? Knowing this oneness alone is the purpose of your coming again and again into the mundane plane. You can know, feel and experience this oneness only when you stop injuring and hurting others and begin to love all as your own Self. Verily, the animals are thy own Self. Thou alone art residing in these animals as the individual souls and thou alone art manifest in the form of the material bodies in which these souls reside. Hence, wake up; stop meat-eating and butchering the animals. Develop love for them and promote oneness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 20, 2008 Report Share Posted June 20, 2008 Dear Folks , I would like to tell you a story that a visiting pundit once told the jajmaan in our mandir . " once there was a severe drought in a small fishing village in India . The ground became cracked and dry ..the trees bare and everyday the sun shone mercelissy from a cloudless metallic blue sky . Even the sea seemed to with hold its bounty . The village fishemen set sail early in the am and returned without fish . The men and women despaired; the children grew emaciated , many elders languished and died , the farm animals and the cattle also died of starvation as not a blade of grass could be seen . The women went daily to the mandir and prayed fervently for the blessed rain but none came .still they prayed and prayed . One day without warning .. the rains came ...torrents and torrents of it . it fillled the huge crack and crevices ;the redbare earth drank thirstily ....emaciated children and elders smiled wanly . The village women looked up at the grey skies and breathed a prayer of gratitude .The menfolk were silent and secretly thankful . They took their catamarans to sea and cast their nets in anticipation. sure enough huge shoals of silvery fish were caught ..They returned home weary but satisfoed and grateful . When the women saw the bountiful catch , with tears of gratitude in their eyes, they made their way to the mandir with their thalis full of prasadum . As the pujari invoked the deities and the devotees recited mantras of praise , the cloth was lifted from the gleaming thalis . In them were the best and gleaming fish that were caught by the menfolk earlier that day . sonah nagassar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 20, 2008 Report Share Posted June 20, 2008 Nature followed man in his fall of the little self and also followed him when he began killing other life forms. Therefore, nature also fell due to the selfish actions of man. Nature became a mirror of man's actions. Like man, nature also is not in harmony anymore. We may therefore not say that man should take the example of nature in order to find the right living. This is creating a mental vicious spiral. Swami Vivekananda's saying cannot be used as an excuse to kill other creatures when he pointed to the fact that other sentient beings die due to man's disharmonious and imperfect life. Every aspect of mortal man is disharmonious and so is breathing. It is our consciousness that must stop this distorted patterns/conditions and follow the one path upwards to Harmony and inner Peace. johan On Behalf Of Joydeep Biswas Friday, June 20, 2008 5:05 AM Re: Meat Eating hi, i perfectly agree with Mr. Rajeev in accepting this fact there is little or no difference between meat eating or non-meat eating. there are certain laws and modus operandi of the cycle of existence that has to be understood and such facts cannot be termed antagonistic to spirituality. for example:- when a tiger kills a deer, we call it law, but when man eats meat we call it sin. this is preposterous. secondly, no one can live a single moment without the extinction of other sentient/animate objects as has been rightly pointed out by none other than the most revered Swami Vivekananda. for example:- every moment millions of microbes are dying because of our breathing process. should we then stop breathing? what is required is to follow the law of nature, follow the naturalness, that is what is real spirituality. to be in sync and harmony with your naturality is the path of least resistance and hence most amenable to our spiritual growth. --- On Thu, 19/6/08, rajeeva ranjan <rajeeva_ranjan2002 <rajeeva_ranjan2002%40> > wrote: rajeeva ranjan <rajeeva_ranjan2002 <rajeeva_ranjan2002%40> > Re: Meat Eating <%40> Thursday, 19 June, 2008, 11:34 AM It is much more than that - the simple meat eating. The vegetables also have life and it is confirmed in lab that they also fear their lives. They shrink, when they fear. They are animate and even if they are not, they are still part of that consciousness as inanimate. Meat eating and vegetable eating are same. The point to understand is not, meat eating or non meat eating. The point to understand is the the existence as it is and our role in that. Till we have individuality, a personality, these discussions will keep on going. When we truly consider ourselves as part of consciousness, everything dissolves, and then there is no difference between meat and non meat. --- On Wed, 18/6/08, divinesprt <divinesprt > wrote: divinesprt <divinesprt > Meat Eating Wednesday, 18 June, 2008, 11:29 PM On what grounds do you prohibit meat-eating? On medical, psychological, moral and spiritual grounds. The mind is made up of the essence of the food that a man takes. Tamasic food results in a Tamasic mind. Meat is Tamasic and hence should be avoided. When an animal is killed or butchered, a contraction of its nervous system takes place on account of fear. (And you might have felt certain disturbances in your own stomach when you have experienced fear.) This leads to the secretion of certain poisons in the liver, etc., of the animal. These poisons are cumulative in their nature and are never removed or lost during the process of boiling or cooking meat. Hence, meat-eating is poisonous and dangerous in the long run. There is no difference between you and an animal when both are considered as souls inhabiting the bodies. From whichever source you derive the right to live and enjoy in this material body, from that very same source, the souls of these animals have derived equal rights to live and enjoy in their material bodies. Hence, you do not possess the moral right to kill a single living being, however small it may be. Last. but not the least, there is One Consciousness which has expressed itself in the form of the various beings, animate and inanimate. And this makes you one with all beings. When you have known this, will you consciously hurt any being? Can you willingly and joyously cut your own fingers and cook them and eat them? Knowing this oneness alone is the purpose of your coming again and again into the mundane plane. You can know, feel and experience this oneness only when you stop injuring and hurting others and begin to love all as your own Self. Verily, the animals are thy own Self. Thou alone art residing in these animals as the individual souls and thou alone art manifest in the form of the material bodies in which these souls reside. Hence, wake up; stop meat-eating and butchering the animals. Develop love for them and promote oneness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 20, 2008 Report Share Posted June 20, 2008 -Eating Meat should be discouraged not becouse it is concerned with animals.....,if this is the case,each grain DANA has millions of JEEVS/living things.Meat may be discouraged PLUS other TAMSIK eatables as these increase the DISTURBING INSTINCTS.LIKEWISE, spicy food and excess food must be avoided.A veg.Person,not eating meat but eating 8 chopatis and MIRCHIWALI sabzi,PLUS 300GMS,HALWA...may not be able to meditate.Moreover,intoxicants,TObbacco products must be restricted. Thanks ji. -- In , " dolma2 " <lildol3_2 wrote: > > well. > yesterday(because of my car accident) i had to go the the brugmann clinic in > laken(brussels). The doctor used accupuncture but olso an instrument > with(never saw that) a round instrument, she was holding on one side, and > put on my brain. Each time i got an electric shock. That is what we do to > kill animals. Every time i tought it was finished. bang! > i'm thinking now.... > they will find a solution for me.... > for the whole abattoir anderlecht.....etc.... id on't know > > dolma > > > -------Oorspronkelijk bericht------- > > Van: divinesprt > Datum: 06/19/08 05:30:02 > Aan: > Onderwerp: Meat Eating > > On what grounds do you prohibit meat-eating? On medical, > psychological, moral and spiritual grounds. The mind is made up of > the essence of the food that a man takes. Tamasic food results in a > Tamasic mind. Meat is Tamasic and hence should be avoided. When an > animal is killed or butchered, a contraction of its nervous system > takes place on account of fear. (And you might have felt certain > disturbances in your own stomach when you have experienced fear.) > This leads to the secretion of certain poisons in the liver, etc., of > the animal. These poisons are cumulative in their nature and are > never removed or lost during the process of boiling or cooking meat. > Hence, meat-eating is poisonous and dangerous in the long run. There > is no difference between you and an animal when both are considered > as souls inhabiting the bodies. From whichever source you derive the > right to live and enjoy in this material body, from that very same > source, the souls of these animals have derived equal rights to live > and enjoy in their material bodies. Hence, you do not possess the > moral right to kill a single living being, however small it may be. > Last. but not the least, there is One Consciousness which has > expressed itself in the form of the various beings, animate and > inanimate. And this makes you one with all beings. When you have > known this, will you consciously hurt any being? Can you willingly > and joyously cut your own fingers and cook them and eat them? Knowing > this oneness alone is the purpose of your coming again and again into > the mundane plane. You can know, feel and experience this oneness > only when you stop injuring and hurting others and begin to love all > as your own Self. Verily, the animals are thy own Self. Thou alone > art residing in these animals as the individual souls and thou alone > art manifest in the form of the material bodies in which these souls > reside. Hence, wake up; stop meat-eating and butchering the animals. > Develop love for them and promote oneness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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