Vegetarian or Non-Vegetarian : Which food should I take!
- A big question which can be debated…… endlessly!
- To me it appears to be an incorrect question! Instead of debating on source of food, we should be more concerned about the emotions inherent in your food. At the subtle levels, what matters more is the emotions innate in your food than mere origin of food, that is, whether it is from a vegetarian source or a non-vegetarian source! Following two considerations with regard to the food are very important: (i) The love and affection or the violence and resistance exhibited while obtaining the food is more important than mere source of the food whether Plant source or Animal source; and, (ii) Software of the food vis-à-vis your own software.
- We have to clearly understand, accept and respect that the Plants do have life. It is now scientifically proven that the plants do react and resist when any harm is anticipated by them whether it is in the form of cutting branches or flowers or fruits. Since our senses are not developed enough to notice this resistance, we obtain fruits and vegetables from the Plants happily i.e. guiltfree. The resistance from plants is too subtle to be noticed by the not so developed senses of human beings. Since there is no visible (nor noticeable) resistance, we assume that there is no violence or resistance in taking the fruits and vegetables from the Plants.
- In stricter scientific terms, the factor which is more important is the emotions/nutrients that are carried within the food rather than the source of food, a Plant source or not.
- We can understand it better with this example. When a new baby is born, nature makes the provisioning of food for the new-born-baby in the form of milk from the mother. Scientifically speaking, this milk is produced through a natural process using the flesh-and-bones-and-blood of the mother. Going strictly by the scientific terminology, one cannot keep the ‘mother milk’ in the category of Plant source. Yet, mother’s milk is essential for the survival of the new born baby in view the tenderness of the digestive fires of the baby. Moreover, when a mother feeds her baby, the milk carries lots of caring emotions alongwith nutrients essential for the baby. Mother feeding a baby is altogether a godly-chemistry !
- On the other side, when we take milk as our a food from an animal, there would be also be slight resistance from the animal because the milk produced within the mother-animal is for her babies and not ours! However, the man has been clever and powerful enough who domesticated the animals and the resistance by such animals gets slightly reduced with the passage of time.
Resistance & Release of harmful chemicals
7. No living being wants to be killed; and, no animal produces children to be your food! Therefore, when you go the extent of killing the same animal for food, the animal will apply all possible resistance while being killed. In the process of being killed, there is release of certain chemicals within its body which can prove harmful when the meat of that animal is eaten.
8. The quantity and nature of release of chemicals may depend upon the size of animal and the amount of resistance applied. Small animals, like Fish may have less resistance than the big-sized animals; and hence, the amount of release of harmful chemicals would vary from animal to animal and process to process.
9. Therefore, vegetables/fruits have least resistive chemicals; the sea/river animals like fish have release of such harmful chemicals in small quantities; and, the bigger animals will release much higher amount of harmful chemicals (as a result of higher struggle/resistance while being killed) which will definitely enter our blood-stream when we eat them.
Software versus Software
10. Every living being be it plants, animals or human beings has a software of its own. Human beings have certain software which governs the body, most probably the most complex software of all living beings. Plants also have their software which is quite simpler. Similarly, animals also have their software which may be more complex than that of Plants but less complex than humans.
11. In the food chain, the software of the food which is eaten affects the software of the Eater. This is a very sensitive aspect. It implies that your nature, your behaviour, your response system will be decided or largely affected by what you eat. Yes, by whatever you eat. Therefore, it is imperative that you develop yourself to such a level that the food you eat should not over-power your very own software. Be mindful, whatever you eat becomes you!
Your life, Your decision
12. Thus, it is largely upto you as to which food you decide to choose as per the region you live in, the availability or non-availability of plant based food, your religious beliefs, your digestive fires, your family norms and so on.
13. In my opinion, we should make a choice based on our goals and draw a fine balance keeping into consideration the medical advice if any, long-term effects of food at gross (physical) levels as well as at subtle levels. While in short term, the nutrients in animal-based food may appear convincingly attractive; however, the regular intake of animal-based-food is likely to add more of the animalistic-characteristics which may lead to personality issues like fearfulness, feeling of insecurity, overly possessive, anger-issues, overly dominance, jealous, depressive tendencies, exploitive nature, and so on.
14. Please also be informed that it is not merely the food that transforms you; in fact, you are transformed by what you see, what you read, what you hear and also by the thoughts which dominate you most of the times.
Stay happy, healthy and prosperous.
Spiritually yours,
Ashok Sharma
The Divine Master
Ashok Sharma
The Mystic.