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 Have
you ever heard the saying "you are what you eat" ? Well
there’s never been a true saying. Your physical and mental
health and well being is an exact result of what you put
into your stomach. Food goes beyond just feeding our hunger,
it feeds our mind, body and soul, and it is not enough to
just eat to exist. We strive to achieve balance, happiness
and bliss in our lives and food is a major factor in
obtaining this state of consciousness.
So it’s time we started to take our
health more seriously and become Vegetarian.
It is the wrong concept to think that
if we do not eat flesh foods (meat, fish and poultry) that
we are not getting a proper balanced diet and that we may
become ill by leaving flesh foods out of our diet
completely. On the contrary numerous researches and studies
have shown that vegetarians live longer lives and are less
prone to many diseases that meat eaters are more open to.
Eating flesh foods significantly increases major chronic
diseases like heart disease, cancer, kidney disease and
osteoporosis.
Flesh foods are loaded with
contaminants such as hormones, herbicides and pesticides and
antibiotics. As these toxins are all fat - soluble, they
concentrate in the fatty flesh of animals which meat eaters
are taking into their bodies.
We need to stop and think of the
effects of eating meat has on our body and psychic. It
increases the animal frequency in the body and brings more
animal – like tendencies into operation such as vibrations
of anger, lust, fear and murderous impulses. The energies in
a flesh food diet adds to the impurities of the mind and the
nervous system. It communicates the energy of destruction to
the cells in our body and brings the energy of death into
our auric fields reducing the flow of higher Prana into the
body. The lives of the creatures we’ve eaten weigh down our
astral body with negative feelings of fear and suffering at
their time of death.
Furthermore, it is obvious that our
natural instincts are non – carnivorous. Our teeth are
perfect for grinding grains and vegetables and not for
tearing apart animal flesh. The intestinal tract of humans
is much longer than that of carnivores, raw meat is filled
with bacteria and animals eating it must pass it through
their intestines quickly, therefore because a humans
intestines are longer the meat and all it’s bacteria is
staying in the body longer then a carnivore’s. Our
metabolism is not designed to break down and digest meat.
As vegetarians and humans we need to
care more for our environment. Raising animals just to kill
them for food is causing an incredible waste of our precious
resources. We could feed millions of starving people
throughout the world with the amount of money being ploughed
into feeding live stock only to be later killed for feeding
meat eaters.
Swami Ji says that is also a matter of
the sensitivity of one’s heart, that if you have compassion
in your heart then how you can kill an innocent animal just
to feed your stomach. As humans we must raise awareness and
compassion for animals as they too are God’s creation and
have a right to live just like us humans. We are meant to
act as caretakers and protectors of animals and the planet,
not as exploiters and killers.
By choosing a vegetarian diet you can
experience optimum health, and the happiness of living at
peace with your friends in the animal kingdom.
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