The Bible says we should be vegetarians. The Vedic scriptures say we should be vegetarians. In the Vedas it says that the perfect foods for humans are vegetables, fruits, grains, nuts, seeds, and dairy products. That’s the food for man. If you eat a diet composed of these ingredients, then your health will be greatly improved. But many people think...
More5. PROBLEMS WITH THE MIND
Now, what else? What about the mind? It’s a second body, remember? What we eat affects the mind also. So when an animal is killed, the animal is filled with fear and adrenalin, under great stress, anxiety, and all of this goes into the meat automatically. You eat that meat – you take that into yourself. And this affects your body and affects your...
More6. INABILITY TO UNDERSTAND SPIRITUAL SUBJECT MATTER
And most important of all. How does it affect our ability to understand spiritual subject matter? Meat is in the material mode of ignorance. There are different modes of nature that influence us. There are goodness, passion and ignorance. Meat is in the mode of ignorance. When I eat meat, that puts me under the influence of the mode of ignorance. The...
More7. ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS
Now, what about the environment? We know the environment is in crisis right now. It has been for a long time, it’s just becoming more obvious. This is also based on research, but it’s the truth: if you want to do the most that you as an individual can do for the environment – become a vegetarian. The environmental impact involved with eating of...
More8. DISEASES CAUSED BY MEAT EATING
To be vegetarian is much better. When people are vegetarian, it’s much better; it greatly reduces disease. You know, yesterday one man came to me and said he had just had a heart attack, which is “normal”, basically “normal.” In America and other western developed countries 52% of the population will die from cancer or heart attack, heart...
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