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VEGETARIANISM
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Brahmarishi Patriji
‘ Holistic Health ’ .. means ‘ Wholesome
Health ’ .. or ‘ Complete Health ’.
‘ Holistic Health ’ consists of five mega
components :
•Physical health
•Mental / emotional health
•Intellectual health
•Spiritual health.
•Social health.
-PATRIJI
Science of Vegetarianism
BE A VEGETARIAN
Studiies of human evolution have shown that our
ancestors were vegetarian by nature. The structure of
the human body is not suited for eating meat.
Humans, like other naturally vegetarian animals, have 28 feet
long small and large intestine. They are much longer than those found in
carnivores.
The meat we eat stays in our intestines for a longer period of
time. Consequently, the meat can putrefy and create toxins. These
toxins have been implicated, as a cause of colon cancer, and they also
increase the burden on the liver, which has the major function of getting
rid of toxins.
Antibiotics as well as other drugs including steroids and growth
hormones are either added to animal feed or injected directly into the
animals.
People eating these animals will absorb these drugs into their
bodies. There is a possibility that antibiotics in meat are diminishing
the effectiveness of antibiotics for human use
Food from plants is a more direct source of nutrition that meat.
People eat animals, but the sources of nutrition for the animals we eat
is plants.
The lives of most animals are short, and animals have nearly all the
disease that mankind has. It is very likely that the diseases of
mankind come from eating the flesh of diseased animals. So, why
don’t people get their nutrition directly from plants? The classic
example of eating diseased cows suffering from MAD COWS
DISEASE.
Recent scientific work by Fernstrom and Wortman at M.I.T.
has demonstrated the subtle biochemical mechanism which
causes a high protein diet to decrease levels of serotonin (low
levels of serotonin are found in depressed humans) and
conversely, high carbohydrate diet (vegetarian diet) increases
serotonin.
This work is the first to demonstrate a dietary link with
mental health and adds to the evidence in favour of becoming
vegetarian. Practically speaking, as one begins to eliminate meat
from his diet he feels more energetic, less nervous and less
pressured. Additionally one ceases to need a deodorant (a daily
bath or shower should suffice) and finds the smell of the stool to
be much less offensive.
Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson, MD,
Fellow of Royal Society.
It must be honestly admitted that weight by weight, vegetable
substance, when carefully selected, possesses the most striking
advantages over animal food in nutritious value. I should like to
see a vegetarian and fruit-living plan put into general use, and I
believe it will be.
The well-known physician, Dr. William S. Playfair, CB, has said
quite clearly; ‘Animal diet is not essential to man’; and we find Dr.
F.J. Sykes. Bsc., the medical official for St. Pancras, writing:
Chemistry is not antagonistic to vegetarianism, any more than
biology is. Flesh-food is certainly not necessary to supply the
nitrogenous products required for the repair of tissues; therefore a
well-selected diet from the vegetable kingdom is perfectly right,
from the chemical point of view, for the nutrition of men.
The Dean of the Faculty of Jefferson Medical College
(of Philadelphia) said:
It is a well-known fact that cereals as articles of daily food hold a
high place in the human economy; they contain constituents
amply sufficient to sustain life in its highest form. If the value of
cereal food products were better known, it would be a good
thing for the race. Nations live and thrive upon them alone, and
it has been fully demonstrated that meat is not a necessity.
There you have a number of plain statements, and all of them
are taken from the writings of well-known men who have made a
considerable study of the chemistry of foods. It is impossible to
deny that man can exist without this horrible flesh-diet, and
furthermore that there is more nutriment in an equal amount of
vegetables than of dead flesh. I could give you many other
quotations, but those above mentioned are sufficient, and they
are fair samples of the rest.
Less Disease
Many serious diseases come from this loathsome habit of
devouring dead bodies. Here again I could easily give you a
long list of quotations, but as before I will be satisfied with a
few.
Flesh is an unnatural food, and therefore tends to create
functional disturbances.
As it is taken in modern
civilizations, it is infected with such terrible diseases (readily
communicable to man) as cancer, TB, fever, intestinal worms,
etc. to an enormous extent. There is little need to wonder
that flesh-eating is one of the most serious causes of the
diseases that carry off ninety-nine out of every hundred
people that are born.
VEG
vs.
NON VEG
FOOD ITEMS
Protein
% gms
FOOD ITEMS
Protein
% gms
Spirulina
60
Egg
13
Soya beans
43
Fish
22
Mutton, Pork
18
Beef
22
Green gram,Blackgram,
Lentils,Peas,Bengal 22 - 25
gram,
Almond, Pistachios,
Cashew nut
Cheese
20
24
Protein is shown as a percentage of calories
Vegetables
Protein
Legumes &
Grains
Protein
Spinach
49%
Lentils
29%
Broccoli
45%
Pinto beans
26%
kale
45%
Chickpeas
23%
Mushroom
39%
Peanuts
18%
Okra
27%
Sunflower
seeds
17%
Tomato
20%
Wheat
17%
Pumpkin
15%
OatmealCooked
15%
Corn
15%
Cashews
12%
Potato
11%
Rich-brown
8%
SALT
Is salt bad for hypertension?
What is bad for hypertension is iodized salt,
which is a fake salt. It is made up of only 3
synthetic chemicals, sodium, chloride,
iodine. It does not melt in water (glistens like
diamonds), does NOT melt in the body, does
not melt in the kidneys, gives kidney stones,
and raises blood pressure.
However, it is the salt favoured by the drugbased doctors who say it is very clean and
sanitary, pointing to how white it is and how
it glistens like diamonds. The fake salt is
man-made in a factory.
IODISED SALT
The true salt, which comes from the sea and
dried under the sun and commonly called
rock salt , has 72 natural minerals including
natural sodium, chloride, iodine. It melts in
water, melts in your body, melts in the
kidneys, does not give kidney stones, and
best of all, brings down blood pressure and
stops/prevents
muscle
cramps,
numbness,tingling.
If you get muscle cramps in the lower legs at
night, just take a half teaspoon of rock salt
and a glass of water, and the cramps with its
horrific pain will be gone in 5 minutes.
ROCK SALT
Coconut Oil
Coconut oil, once shunned as being
unhealthy because it is high in saturated
fats, is now considered by many as a
magical health food. The difference
between coconut oil and other saturated
fats is in the size of the fat molecules.
Long chain fats are hard to digest, and
pass directly into the lymphatic system.
The fats in coconut oil are medium chain
fatty acids (MCFA's).
These MCFA's are quickly digested,
even without the aid of pancreatic
enzymes, and are transported via the
hepatic portal vein to the liver. MCFA's
never enter the lymphatic system or
bloodstream, so they don't clog arteries
like their longer chained relatives. Instead,
they are light, easy to digest, and quickly
converted to energy. Coconut oil actually
lowers cholesterol and improves fat
metabolism.
Most commercial grade coconut oils
are made from dried copra (meat of the
coconut) and go through an extensive
refining process to extract the oil. Virgin
coconut oil is made from the fresh meat
and the oil is extracted either through a
quick drying method, using minimal heat
and then mechanically pressed or it goes
through a process called wet-milling where
the meat is not dried.
Instead the "coconut milk" is expressed first,
and then the oil is further expressed from
the water either through the method of
boiling, fermentation, refrigeration or a
mechanical centrifuge. Some retailers and
manufacturers will call their oil "Extra Virgin
Coconut Oil" but there is no other
processing method then what is listed, so
there is no official classification or difference
between "virgin" and "extra virgin" like there
is in the olive oil industry.
There are false claims of coconut oil
being raw and full of enzymes, all coconut
oil has "seen heat". For one thing
coconuts are native to the tropics where
temperatures are very hot, so shipping
alone will expose the oil to higher
temperatures and some heat needs to be
applied in the processing to ensure that
no moisture is present in the oil that may
cause deterioration. Virgin oil uses
minimal heat in the processing methods.
The good thing about coconut oil is
that it isn't damaged by heat. That's why
it is so good for cooking. It's the
saturation that makes it stable. If coconut
oil contained enzymes it would become
very perishable-just like all raw foods
containing enzymes ~ Lita Lee Ph.D.
Cooking with coconut oil does not introduce
hydrogen into the oil or hydrogenate it.
Hydrogenation is an industrial process to
make an oil turn solid at room temperatures
which creates harmful Trans fatty acids.
Coconut oil is naturally very stable oil.
To purchase a healthy coconut oil, one
must determine between "virgin" and
"refined" oil. Virgin oil, healthier oil, is
made from the fresh meat therefore it
will have a distinct aroma and the taste
of coconut will be present.
Tasteless coconut oil is more than
likely refined and made from copra (dried
meat). Buying organic virgin coconut oil
may help to insure that there has been no
pesticides or fertilization used on the
crop. Buying "expeller-pressed" oil usually
means that the oil was extracted by
"physical refining" rather than a chemical
extraction using a solvent.
The health benefits from using
coconut oil claim to be many and come
mainly from the MCFAs. Coconut is a food
so therefore the oil is very safe for
consumption in adults, pregnant women,
children, and pets. An adult should
consume about 3.5 tablespoons of
coconut oil throughout a day to receive the
best benefit and taken with foods high in
fiber and protein.
List of Iodine Rich Vegetarian Foods
• Sea salt
• Navy beans, cooked
• Strawberries
• Iodized salt
• Potato with peel, baked
• Soybeans
• Spinach
• Garlic
UNHEALTHY FATS AND OILS
Our body needs certain fats and oils. The
‘Essential Oils’, known as Omegas 3 and 6 are
absolutely essential for every aspect of our
health, from energy and stamina, to weight loss,
brain function, heart health, the immune
system, the skin, detoxification, digestion, and
fertility. Fats are an essential part of each and
every cell and without them we would not be
able to survive. The body needs fat – the RIGHT
KIND OF FAT!
Essential Fatty Acids that you
absorb for example from fresh
nuts and seeds –– are very good
for you.
But you must make sure that
you keep your unhealthy fat
intake to a minimum.
Refined oils in any shape or form, including any
oil that you find on the supermarket shelves
(with the exception of cold pressed unrefined
olive oil) and any oil that is cooked with, and
almost certainly any oil that comes in fast or
pre-packaged food are produced and refined in
such a way that they contain many toxins and
can only poison your immune system.
People with fatty, unhealthy diets are often
tired and sick. You see, when there’s too
much unhealthy fat (and toxins) in your
system, your red blood cells stick
together, they move more slowly, and as a
result you get far less oxygen reaching
your cells. Your cells then become weaker
– some cells may even die or mutate.
That’s why so many studies show high fat
intake related to cancer.
ANIMAL FLESH
If you want to be healthy, stop ingesting animal
flesh.
Every single time you ingest animal flesh your
body suffers dreadful consequences.
Meat is highly toxic and truly breaks your body
down!
Amazing shifts occur in people’s quality of life
when they stop consuming animal products – but
don’t take my word for it; just try it on for 10
days, and see how you feel.
Spend just 10 days without eating meat.
Do you know what goes into these massproduced ‘food animals’? Cement dust,
radioactive material, dead carcasses, animal
faeces, etc. Anybody who has any intelligence
at all KNOWS that eating such mass-produced
animal flesh is stupid.
In addition animal flesh doesn’t give you
much energy after you take into account
the amount of energy needed to break it
down.
Not to mention what the animal fat does to
your body… You have been taught
culturally that eating meat is ‘ok’. Don’t
buy into the cultural hypnosis! Don’t do
something just because everybody else is
doing it! ‘Everybody else’ is unhealthy! 1
in 2 die of heart disease, 1 in 3 of cancer –
those are the statistics!
ALKALI vs ACID
The pH of the blood should be maintained
in a Positive Alkali Balance for Perfect
Health.
Acid and Alkali Balance in Blood:
The ratio of acids to alkalis in blood is generally
20:80.Maintenance of this ratio is essential for health.The body
naturally exerts its utmost to maintain this ratio.
Some of our foods leave alkaline residues in the body after
undergoing the full cycle of digestive and metabolic
processes;some others leave acidic residues.We may call
such foods alkali-genic and acdi-genic respectively.
Generally,the acid produced by the metabolic
activites,(such as uric acid,latic acid, etc.) react with the
alkalis in the blood, lymph, bile, etc,. Thus being
neutralised and rendered innocuous.But if our diet is
replete with acid-genic foods, the body cannot cope with
all the resulting acids.whn the acids accumulate in the
blood, symptoms associated with acidic blood like
fatigue, headache, anorexia,insomina, nervous
tension,hyperacidity, coryza, etc., begin to appear.
Acidic blood is an abnormal condition that hinders
the
physical
devlopment
of
children
and
adolescents, causes degeneration in order people,
and diminishes vitality. It causes difficulties in
preganancy and lactation. It is the origin of diseases
like measles, appendicitis, pneumonia, tuberculosis
and cancer.
Dr.Geroge Cryle, the renowned surgeon of
Cleveland,USA, is of the firm opinion that there is no
such thing as natural death.All so-called natural
deaths are the culminating stages of chronic acidic
condition of the blood.
The above discussion makes it quite clear that all the
toxic substances in the body are in the form of acids,
and that in order to prevent or counteract the
accumulation of acids in the body we must take food
that is mainly alkalic-genic.
It is important, therefore,know what food will result in
the generation of how much alkalinity or acidity in the
body.The well-known Biochemist Dr.Regnar Burg has
carried out extensive investigations regarding the
overall acidic or alkaline effects of various food.
ALKALI vs ACID FOODS
• FOODS AND IT’S PERCENTAGES
ALKALI – GENIC FOOD & ACID-GENIC FOOD
FOOD
FRUITS
ALKALI-GENIC EFFECT IN
PER CENT
Figs (Fresh)
27.81
Raisins
15.10
Grapes
7.15
Sugar-cane
14.57
Tomatoes
13.67
Lemons
9.90
Oranges
9.61
plums
5.80
Dates
5.50
Peaches
5.40
Apricots(fresh)
4.79
Bananas
4.38
Pomegranates
4.15
Coconuts
4.09
Pineapples
3.59
Pears
3.26
Watermelons
1.83
Apples
1.38
FOOD
ALKALI-GENIC
EFFECT IN
PER CENT
VEGETABLES,
TUBERS AND ROOTS:
Spinach
28.01
Leafy Salad Plants
14.12
Cucumbers
13.50
Beetroots
11.37
Turnips
10.80
Sweet Potatoes(Yams) 10.31
Radishes
6.50
Cabbage
Potatoes
4.02
5.90
Cauliflower
Peas(fresh)
3.04
5.15
Onions
1.09
Pumpkin
0.28
MILK AND MILK
PRODUCTS
Skimmed Milk
4.89
Cream
2.66
Human Milk
2.25
Cow’s Milk
1.69
Butter Milk
1.31
Goat’s Milk
0.25
ACID-GENIC FOODS
FOOD
ACID-GENIC EFFECT
IN PER CENT
CEREALS;
Rice (polished)
Rice (manually de-husked)
17.96
3.68
Cake
Bread
Barley
WhiteFlour (Wheat)
Maize
Wheat
12.31
10.99
10.58
8.32
5.37
2.66
PULSES AND LEGUMES;
All pulses and legumes Highly acidgenic
NUTS:
Peanuts
16.39
Walnuts
9.22
Almonds
2.19
FOOD
ACID-GENIC EFFECT
IN PERCENT
FOOD OF ANIMAL
ORIGIN(EXCLUDING MILK):
Yolk of Egg
51.83
White of Egg
8.27
Eggs
11.67
Beef
38.61
Chicken
24.32
Goat’s Flesh
20.30
Fish
19.52
Pork
12.47
MILK PRODUCTS:
Cheese
17.49
Butter
4.33
From the table it is obvious that meat, fish, eggs
and pulses are highly acid-genic. Wholemeal
wheat flour,manually dehusked unpolished
rice,and such other cereals in their more or less
natural forms are only midly acid-genic, but
refining them makes them much more acidic in
affect.All vegetables,tubers,roots and fruits are
alkalic-genic.Green leafy vegetables are of special
importance in this respect.
We have not formed habits of regularly taking
alkalic-genic foods like fruits. And we have not
realized the importance of uncooked
vegetables at all.It is chiefly for this reason that
our entire nation is caught up in the web of
diseases and medicines.
It is quite possible to maintain a balance between the
acids and alkalis in the body by a judicious
combination of various unprocessed cereals,raw
vegetables,fruits and nuts in our daily diet and thus
keep diseases at bay.
Not only do the alkalis in such foods neutralize the
acids in other foods, but they also help in extracting
the acids and toxins accumulated in the cells of the
body, and ejecting them from the system.These
qualities make a diet made up of alkali-genic
components not only pure and wholesome, but also
an efficient eliminating and cleansing agency.
Vegetarian Aura
Patriji’s Aura(meditator)
Dr.Shanker’s Aura (meditator)
Non -Vegetarian Aura
Non meditator’s Aura
A tree as great as a man’s embrace springs
from a small shoot. A terrace nine stories
high begins with a pile of earth. A
journey of a thousand miles starts with
the first step
- LAO-TZU
Knowing others is intelligence. Knowing
yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others
is strength. Mastering yourself is true
power.
LAO-TZU
When you are inspired by some great
purpose, all your thoughts break their
bonds: your mind transcends limitations,
and you find yourself in a new, great,
and wonderful world
- PATANJALI
Father of Yoga
ECONOMICS
AND
PERSONAL HEALTH
OF
VEGETARIANISM
India is the home not only vegetation cooking,but also of the
science of healthful living. The Scriputure Known as the Ayur-Veda,
is the oldest known as work on biology hygiene,medicine and
nutrition.
THE ENVIRONMENT
Water Conservation: It takes 3 to 15 times as much water to
produce animal protein as it does plant protein.
Efficient use of grains: It takes upto 16 pounds of soyabeans and
grains to produce 1lb.of beef and 3 to 6 lbs. To produce 1 lb of turkey
& egg.
Soil conservation:when grains & legumes are used more efficiently.
Our precious topsoil is automatically made more efficient in its use.
Conservation of fossil fuel: It takes 78 calories of fossil fuel to
produce 1 calorie of beef protein; 35 calories for 1 calories of pork.
22 calories for 1 calories of pourltry. But just 1 calories of fossil fuel
for 1 calorie of soyabeans.
Saving our forests:By not supporting the meat industry. I directly
reduce the demand to pillage these irreplaceable treasures of
nature.Since the forest land “filters” our air supply botanical.
PERSONAL HEALTH
No deficiencies: There is no nutrient necessary for optimal human
functioning.
High fat plus cholestral: Animal foods are higher in fat than most
plant foods.Plants do not contain cholestrol.
“crab”deficient:Meat is deficient in carbohydrates.
Vitamin deficient:Except for the B-complex,meat is largely deficient in
vitamins.
Agricultural Chemicals: Being higher on the food chain,animal
contain far higher concentrations of agricultural chemicals that plant
foods.
Exposure to livestock drugs:these are over 20000 different
drugs,including sterols,antibioticsm,growth hormones and other
veterinary drugs that are given to livestock animals.
Pathogenic Microorganisms:there are ahost of bacteria and
viruses,some quite dangerous,that are common to animals.
Worms and other parasites: ditto on the above point
Shelf life differential:plant foods last longer than animal fosod
Oraganoleptic indications of pathenogens:plant foods give tell-tale signs
of “going bad”
Heart Diease: meat eating increases the risk of heart disease.this
country #1 killer.Cancer prevention;of all the natural cancer prevention
substances found;vitamin C.B-,17 hydroquinone,Beta carotene ,
NDGA.-none has been found to be animal derived.
Acne: Aggravated by animal food
Obesity:studies confirm that vegetarians tend to be thinner than meat
eaters.
Intestinal Toxemia: Animal products putrefy the colon.
Transit time:wholesome food travels food travels quickly through the
“G.I” tract,leaving little time to spoil and incite disease within the body.
Fibre deficient: fiber absorbs unwanted,excess fats,cleans the
intestines:provides bulk and aids in perstalsis.plant food is high in fibre
content.
Body wastes: food from animals contain their waste,including
adrenaline,uric and lactic acid,etc.,
Excess protein: the average american eats 499% of the RDE for
protein. this causes excess nitrogen in the blood that creates a
hostof long-term health problems.
Longevity: to increase ones riskof getting degenerative disease
means decreasing ones chance to live a naturally long healthy life.
PERSONAL FINANCE
Health care costs: beimg healthier on a vegetarian diet means
spending less on health care.
Food costs: vegetarian foods tend to cost less than meat based
items
ETHICS
Love of animals: i love animals as i love myself.i have no desire to
kill them or cause them harm.
Stance against factory farming – i cannot make a statement
against factory farming if i myself eat animals.
Respect for sentient life- i show gratitude to my creators?
Economic vote- i show support of the meat industry and the way
they operate when i purchase and use their product.
Small sacrifice-the sacrifice i make is nothing compared to the
animals,its life
Natural diet-our hands,teeth,feet,intestional tract even our body
chemistry is that of an herbivore.
Reciprocity-if i partake in the slaughter of animals, i will have to
repay my contribution to that act.
“protecting the temple”- “whatever affects the body has a
corresponding effect on the mind and soul” . I belive in
nonviolence.slaughter isn’t .
World peace- there can never be peace among men while men
are declaring war on other highly developed life forms.
Clear conscience- i feel good inside about my decision to remain
“meatless”.
Example- to livt this way is to prtect the underlying values to those
around me.
Spirituality of Vegetarianism
• Hindu Yogis have long espoused the belief that
the seat of wisdom in the body resides in the
stomach.
• Further they have followed a vegetarian diet
believing that the seat of wisdom should not be
hyper stimulated by such foods as meat.
From the beginning of recorded history, we can see that vegetables have been
the natural food of human beings. Early Greek and Hebrew myths all spoke of
people originally eating fruit. Ancient Egyptian priests never are meat. Many
great Greek philosophers such as Plato, Diogenes and Socrates… all advocated
vegetarianism.
Many famous writers, artists, scientists, philosophers and eminent men
were vegetarians… Pythagoras, Shakespeare, Benjamin Franklin, Bertrand
Russell, Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw etc.,
Meat eating is just an acquired habit. In the beginning, we were not
born with a desire for it. Flesh eating people cut off their inner seed of Great
Mercy.
Flesh eating people kill each other and eat each other… “This life I eat
you, and next life you eat me”… and it always continues in this way!
God doesn’t like the flesh
and blood that you offer as
sacrifice.He expects nothing
but your absolute faith.
-Quran
VEGETARIANISM
Questions and Answers
Master Ching Hai
Q “isn’t eating vegetables a kind of killing too ?
As we have to eat in order to survive, we choose food which has the least
consciousness.. And suffers the least.
Plants consist of 90% water, thus their level of consciousness is so low
that it hardly feels any suffering!
Furthermore, when we eat many vegetables we don’t cut their roots, but
rather we help their asexual reproduction by cutting branches and leaves. The
end result can actually be beneficial to the plant !
This is even more evident with fruit. When fruit ripens, it will attract
people to eat it by its fragrant smell, beautiful color and delicious taste. It is in
this way fruit trees can achieve their purpose of propagating their seed over a
wide area. If we do not pick and eat them, the fruit will become over-ripe and will
fall to the ground to rot. Its seed will be shaded from sunlight by the tree above
them and will die.
So, eating vegetables and fruits is a natural tendency, which brings to them no
suffering al all.
Q “can vegetarians eat eggs?
No! When we eat eggs we are also killing beings!
Q “man raises animals and poultry, pigs, cattle, chickens, ducks, etc.,
why can’t we eat them ?”
So? Parents raise their children. Do parents have the right to eat their
children ?!
All living things have the right to live, and no one should deprive
them of this!
Q
“animals are born for people to eat … if we don’t eat them, they
will fill the world!”
This is an absurd idea. Before you kill an animal, do you ask it if it
wants to be killed and eaten by you or not ?
All living beings desire to live and are afraid to die. We don’t want to be
eaten by a tiger, so why should animals be eaten by humans?
Human beings have only existed in the world for several tens of
thousand of years, but before mankind appeared, many species of animals had
already existed. Did they overcrowd the Earth? Living things maintain a natural
ecological balance !
Q “Why should I be a vegetarian ?”
I am a vegetarian.. Because the God inside me wants it!
Eating meat is against the universal principle
of not wanting to be killed!
Everything that you do against others makes you
suffer. Our life will be not limited within this body, but
extended to the life of animals and all kinds of beings.
Eating vegetarian food makes us grander, greater, happier
and limitless!
Q “ How can this contribute to world
peace?”
Raising cattle and animals for meat has caused our
economy to go bankrupt in all aspects.
It is an American citizen who did this type of research and
wrote a book about it…”Diet for a New America” by John Robbins.
He is a very famous ice-cream millionaire. He gave it all up in
order to be a vegetarian, and to write a vegetarian book against his
family tradition and business!
“As you sow, so shall you reap”..If we kill someone for food,
we will be killed for food later, in some other form the next time,
the next generation. It’s a pity. We are so intelligent, so civilized
and yet most of us do not know the cause of why our neighboring
countries are suffering. It is because of our palates, our tastes,
and our stomachs! In order to feed and nourish one body we kill
so many beings, and starve so many fellow human beings. We
aren’t even talking about the animals yet. Understand? Then this
guilt, consciously or unconsciously, will weigh down upon our
conscience. It makes us suffer from cancer, tuberculosis.
Q “we buy meat from the
butcher! We don’t kill! therefore,
it is all right to eat it.”
This is a disastrous mistake.
You must know that butcher kill living beings
because some people want to eat.
In the
Lankavatra Sutra, Buddha said, “If there was no
one eating meat, then no killing would happen. So
eating meat and killing living being are of the same
sin”.
Because of the killing of too many living beings, we
have natural disasters and man-mad calamities.
Wars are also caused by too much killing.
Q
“any spiritual benefits from being a
vegetarian?
The spiritual aspects of a vegetarian diet are that it is vegetarian clean
and non-violent. “Thou shall not kill”.. God said this to us.”Do not kill any beings.
Didn’t he say that he made all animals to be-friend us, to help us? Did he not put
the animals in our care? He said, “Take care of them”.
So, now you have to help us? Did he not put the animals in our care?
He said , “Take care of them”.
So, now you have to become God in order to understand God.
I invite you to be God-like again, to be yourself, to be no one else.
To meditate on God doesn’t mean you ‘worship’ God! you realize that you
and God are one!
For Health reasons, we should be vegetarians!
For scientific reasons, we should be vegetarians!
For economic reasons, we should be vegetarians!
For spiritual reasons, we should be vegetarians!
To save the world, we should be vegetarians!
Please be a vegetarian!
For you own sake, and for the
sake of the world! “Be a Hero !
“Be a Vegetarian”
Thank you