{Spam?} Bhagwat Gita on the logic of food (vegetarian vrs Non vegetarian) - K G Misra

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Dear Jagannath/ Sunil Bhattacharya

Bhagwat Gita is science of all life. It

says on principle, the animals including humans are bound by their ‘swabhav’ and their food habits are according to the

influence of their ‘guna’ (properties of

intellect) embodied by them. Bhagwat Gita says that ‘swabhav’ is an original nature and one is bound to

have their swabhav as a starting point. If a tiger

stop eating meat by influence of a Brahmin, and without knowing why is the

Brahmin doing it, this will destroy life of the tiger. Tiger cannot survive and

will be killed by other animals of less power. In summary, to fall or deviate

from ‘swabhav’ is harmful, and it only

should change by step by step self realization, in multiple birth and death

cycles. I therefore say that when my friends from areas of Europe or Orrissa or Bengal eat fish or birds or other animals,

this is not a problem for me as I find it according to their own ‘swabhav’. If ever their eating habits cause anxiety

or hatred in me, this is failure of my understanding of the Bhagwat

Gita.

 

This was half the answer. Sri Krishna in Bhagwat

Gita further says that ‘give and take’ principles are ‘sankalp’. If a friend of mine who is eating meat of

fish, he is in other words, taking ‘sankalp’

of the fish. He is (called ‘purohit’ or) benefactor

of the fish community (called ‘yajman’).

And if he fails in contributing to fish farming, very soon the fish will refuse

giving him any of its ‘sankalp’. If any person or animal is eating

whatever he/she is eating, he must ensure being benefactor of that community whose

‘sankalp’ is taken. In this way, humans

and fish both will survive and feed each other. When humans refuse to protect

the cow from diseases and in spite eat her meat, the mad cow disease will cause

humans to die, and cannot nourish their lives. Sankalp

is similarly true with any exchange. If you eat meat of other animals, or take

salary from your employer, or take air and water from nature, these should be

returned to the deities who provided it, and thus become their benefactor. Those

who fail to comply with rules of sankalp are ruined,

and they are feed to medical practitioners and layers (called Rakchhas or protectors).

 

 

By above two paragraphs, two things are now understood;

a) Eating meat is not a subject of veda. It is just a property of

life (SATO, RAJO, and TAMO) that decides the ‘swabhav’.

 

b) If you eat meat of other animals, or

take salary from your employer, or take air and water from nature, these should

be returned to the deities who provided it, and thus become their benefactor. Those

who fail to comply with rules of sankalp are ruined,

and they are feed to medical practitioners and layers (called Rakchhas or protectors).

 

K G Misra