A question about samadhi?

[Guest guest]

Can someone explain what are effects of non-veg food and sex on

samadhi.

 

Is it necessary to leave both to enter into Samadhi

[Guest guest]

This is the most unbiased scientific reply. Non vegetarian food needs more salt

for cooking. It also needs more butter ghee and oil for cooking. More spices

are needed to cook tasty non vegetarian dishes. Along with non vegetarian food

more cereals are consumed.

Stomachful of oily salty tasty food puts one to sleep and prevents any

spiritual mental process.

So it`s bad for Samadhi.

 

tantra_rag <no_reply > wrote:

Can someone explain what are effects of non-veg food and sex on

samadhi.

 

Is it necessary to leave both to enter into Samadhi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

, " J.SWAMY IRAGAVARAPU "

<jiragavarapu wrote:

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thanks this information was useful.

 

Further to this I wish to add that non-veg food, if one is

habitual.. does not bar from entering into meditation. But to enter

higher realms of sadhna... non-veg food becomes a hinderance. since

non-veg food is Tamsic in Nature it certainly becomes a dark force

somewhere on higher steps of samadhi

 

same is with sex. Our scriputres say those grihastha sadhak, who

perform sex for children, or to fulfil the desire of the partner are

almost Brahmcharis. However at higher realms of gaining samadhi,

sex becomes a hinderance, as the energies released by Kundalini,

used in sexual act...and thus stop one entering into samadhi.

 

Lower samadhis can be attained while having non-veg food and sex,

but certainly the enlightening high samadhis (savikalapa) and final

leap (nirvikalapa) needs strict control

[Guest guest]

Dear Friend, Samadhi is very higher stage. During initial Sadhana itself, one

should have control over non-vege and sex. Sex can be regulated with permission

of wife under proper mutual understanding and co-operation. One can't totally

ban it being a householder. Limit it to minimum will ok. As far as non-vege is

concerned, as it increase tamas sentiments and waves of revolting, vindicating,

retaliating thoughts may come in mind for very negligible incidences, one can

not keep proper control over mind. For that non-vege should be prohibited. If

one is confident enough to control his mind after proper education to it, then

ok. But still better reduce it to minimum and search proper alternates for right

progress else this sadhana will lead to Ravana instead of Rama. Regards.

 

tantra_rag <no_reply > wrote: Can someone explain what

are effects of non-veg food and sex on

samadhi.

 

Is it necessary to leave both to enter into Samadhi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

There is also a Karma associated with eating meat. Depending on how

the animal was slaughtered. In many cases, the animals have been

mistreated their whole lives culminating in that slaughter. If its a

higher order animal like a cow, that has the capacity to feel love

and hate, all the hate it feels is attached to the karma of its

slaughter. When you support (inadvertantly) the slaughter by eating

meat, a part of the karma attaches to you.

 

In older times, we'd hunt an animal down and eat it, after offering

prayers for its soul. In this case the animal led a full life and

its death was a natural part of the cycle of life. There was no

dushkarma attached as such.

 

Samadhi implies rising above Karma, hence we should avoid using /

eating / doing anything that has such obvious bad karma attached to

it.

 

> tantra_rag <no_reply > wrote:

[Guest guest]

> There is also a Karma associated with eating meat. Depending on how

 

Not just Karma- animal fat & proteins arent digested by humans, but

absorbed straight into our muscles. We are getting the animals

sanskaars & habits....

 

More importantly, the pain & fear the animal felt while being killed

get absorbed in its skin & passed on to eater- this includes the

psycholgical violence it felt, which gets stored as violent thoughts

in the eater.

 

There is no such thing as " merciful killing " - animals know they are

about to die. If an animal dies at a place, other animals will avoid

that place for months. Animals have a psychic connection with each

other, that makes them aware of the violence to be done to them.

 

In a society where veg food wasn't available, there would be no

problem in eating meat, but this isnt the case in any country now.

Farmers dump tons of food in sea, as they have too much of it(mainly

in rich Western countries who subsidise their farmers).

 

Ancient hunters were a different matter- they followed natures course,

& hunted the animal in its own ground. They then apologised to the

animal for killing it. They only killed when they were hungry. Compare

this with the millions of animals who grow in captivity, lead small,

painful lives, & are brutally killed at the end.

 

Carlos Castaneda tells a story in his tale with Don Juan. They are

lost in the jungle, & so capture a rabbit. Before killing it, Don Juan

says to it " Sorry I have to kill you, but your own death has brought

you to me. I eat you, but in full recognition of the fact that my own

death will make me food for others one day. Someday, I too will die ,

helplessly trapped by someone superior to me " .

[Guest guest]

Thanks Keshav,Jivagarapu, satish and shanracer... your explanations

were beautiful and thought provoking..

 

my love and good wishes