I stopped eating meat after reading gita....but people around me are meat eaters ..my parents are also saying me to eat...but I'm not interested ...with krishna's blessings💗...radhe radhe
When I ate animals I was aggressive, anxious struggling with a mental disorder that had me afraid to leave the house and go into public. first I went vegetarian then vegan I have never felt better, so calm, so peaceful, blissfully happy, my depression, anxiety and mental disorder melted away it was like being reborn. What we eat impacts our moods and well being so much. Before doctors and psychologist load us with pills and chemicals they should try to teach ppl how to eat first and after ppl will realize the answer to our well being was through our nutrition the whole time ☺️
I had the same experience. Finnish culture is pretty much meat eating, dairy consuming culture and as a male it took some courage to go plant based. After 4 years there´s no return.
I stopped eating meat after Putting turmeric on my forehead and kum kum on my 3rd eye. After a few weeks of doing that i craved nothing but vegetables and didn’t want any meat, went back to it for a week or 2 then didn’t want it anymore. June will make it 2 years since i’ve stopped eating meat and I feel so much better. Best decision i’ve made in my life.
Swami is so right about the meat industry. It is the dirtiest most corrupt brutal and immoral industrial complex that most people support and willingly participate in without knowing the truth or the consequences. God bless Swami for his speaking out and blessings to all who leave the carnivorous life behind forever
This resonates so well. What does baby eat? Milk.. and perhaps mashed bananas, dates, and some soft fruits. These are our primary foods. We don't look at lambs and calfs salivating like predators. But we look at ripe mangos and want to taste them. That shows what's natural for us and what's not.
I am a born Muslim from Pakistan 🇵🇰 but I endorse that mass slaughter of animals in name of God is not good and right. Why fill body with dead animals flesh ? And got so much diseases.
I'm glad you are vegetarian because your heart has reached out to the chicken, the pig, the beef cow....I live in a community that has dairy farms everywhere in the valley. But you never ever see any cows. They spend their entire short lives inside barns where the sun cannot shine on them, no grass just manure under their feet. And even though they give milk because they were/are mothers, you never see any babies. Because those babies are stolen from them. You are close, so close but if you can extend mercy to the dairy cow and her baby, you can finish your journey to the true beginning of Spirituality.
I've been consuming chicken and fish again because I'm pregnant and I think it's more comfort than anything else... But when I've almost convinced myself to eat beef again, especially friending and feeding my neighbours cow's.. My heart says no. Stop. When I started meditating again and realigning my spiritual path after derailing, I realised I was vegan, vegetarian for the past 4 years for the wrong reasons. It was egoic more than spiritual. Now all of a sudden during my spiritual practice I feel a calling to eat food filled with life. I'm craving fruits, I'm craving fresh veggies and no more junk food. For the first time in any pregnancy I've had, I am craving whole fresh lush foods. My heart is guiding me.
Except for all those plants that were harvested and killed so that they could end up on your dinner plate. Apparently the lives of those living plants don't matter to you...
Just recently on my path something inside me is telling me "be more environmentally friendly" "stop eating meat." Mentally I have no issue and I used to be vegetarian but when I consider it I think "why do I eat it? Because of transient pleasure?" I'm thinking of slowly stopping my consumption of these things until I eventually stop consuming such things.
I believe that the journey to a truly spiritual life is begun when you come to the realization that the spark of life that is your Innermost Being is the same spark of life that is the Innermost being of animals, fish, birds....that recognition that We Are All One, includes them. Like us, they are imbued with life and love and like us, they can experience fear and pain and loss. Just as we wouldn't bash our own thumb with a hammer, we should not cause fear and pain in them because we are doing it to our Self. The outer expression of Us may be different, but the radiance of our Innermost Beings is the same. I commend you on starting this journey and can assure you after 25 years of not eating meat, it's doable and it's safe. Just take the time to learn the basics (like take a B12 every few days) and you'll do wonderfully. My 70 year old husband is a vegan and he doesn't take any of the life preserving heart meds or anything like that. And in this day and age, that's become remarkable. Good luck and many blessings to you.
My culture is meat eating in all occasions. Gradually my body is shutting down meat. I cannot even imagine a piece of steak on my plate without my stomach turning upside down. Your body tells you what's right or wrong.
but animals kill other animals for food...what gives that animal the right to kill another animal? its a natural instinct. in fact their are some animals like chimps that kill out of anger in their own tribes....so i guess what im saying is i wish it was as simple as you are saying
It's not only the west. I live and teach English in Cambodia and everyone eats meat and treats animals like they have no soul, no feelings. Chickens are carried on backs of moto bikes some have their beaks dragging along the concrete roads and i see them trying to lift their self up because they are being tortured. I once lived by a market place and i would hear horrible screams at 3 am every night almost. I asked a Khmer woman what it was and she said she had gone to look and they were killing pigs, she said also that she thinks that they think if they cut the pigs torturing them before they kill it it makes better meat. So many crazy unhappy people, poor and eating meat with rice everyday. there are no vegetarians here like in India or the USA.
I feel so blissful listening to your teachings. I am in awe of the mural behind you. Is there any way I can see a full depiction? Is it possible that I would be allowed to copy it. I cannot find anything to compare. Where can I obtain such artwork and reproduce it for my studio home to bring blessings to my enviornment. Bless me with this desire. Jill
I'm still thinking this notion over carefully and I finding simple answers to very complicated questions like this are usually ideology driven, not scientific. It is important to realize that replacing meat from ranched cows with farmed vegetables has a cost to life too. For each cow replaced by vegetables a certain acreage of farmland must be put into service to replace the nutrition lost from not ranching that cow. This entails, indeed requires, killing every resident field mouse, mole, vole, rabbit, fox, owl, lady bug, cricket, butterfly, etc., and often even bees and other pollinators. This numbers just a few of the animals killed by farming and ignores all of the insect, microbial, and fungal life that is killed in modern vegetable farming. I'm just sayin'...it's complicated.
A couple of years ago, I had an Ego Death on a high dose of magic mushrooms (psychedelic experience). I felt vulnerable, confused, lost, scared, empty, it was terrifying (Psychedelic trips are generally very pleasant & insightful, and spiritual but not on mega high doses if you aren't ready for the experience). There were bliss moments in there also (especially afterwards) but at that moment in time, I was going through a lot. And when I came back to my "normal" self, I naturally didn't want to eat much food anymore the days after that. One day I was on RU-vid and somehow came across a documentary called "Earthlings", and that opened my eyes so much. It made me (a grown ass man) cry and believe me, I do not cry easily because I have trained myself to handle my emotions through meditation, mindfulness & other breathing techniques but this was too much for me to handle at once. I remember seeing a video of a cow right before being stunned to be slaughtered with his eyes wide open, screaming and trying to protect itself but was helpless and couldn't move because of the tight space, I immediately got flashbacks from the time I was going through my Ego Death experience and how I felt. I felt & understood every bit of suffering and emotions that animal was going through in that video and that was it for me, I didn't want to contribute to this cruelty anymore and I'm glad I did. When you eat meat, you are also ingesting the spirit of that animal, and that animal most likely was born, grew up and killed in pure cruelty. Please stop eating dead animals. Plus, think of all of the physical/mental disasters it brings to your life. You cannot expect to be full of life & happy when you consume & digest misery & death.
Strong insights and points about eating meat as they say everything we do is a consequence and eating meat after awhile harms the body I’m a true believer about maintaining our body’s, mind, soul pure true fact 🙏💜
I've bean wanting 2 give up meat 4 years!?!it's all round me all meat eaters,but love veggies and vegetarian foods, iv bn thinking off them alot lately aldentie 😋😋🤗. You,v made my mind up , everything happens 4 a reson from the people we meet 2 the things we may watch or read . Thank you. Love & light from kevin #KCW from Ayrshire SCOTLAND
Very beautiful ! Your energy and words are motivating and so important! You are a brave and beautiful soul! Thank you! I agree with what you have said! I AM a vegan since 2004, and it was one of the greatest achievements of my life! God Bless you!
Thank you for sharing. Ahimsa of course is a part of yoga and spirituality. It is about non-violence and harmlessness. However, all female animals provide milk for their offspring, their babies, until they are weaned and eat solid food. Humans are the only animal that drinks the milk of another animal, and, after we are weaned. Cows are kept constantly pregnant so they are forced to provide milk, for humans. This is unnatural for any animal--no female should be constantly pregnant. Also, cows milk is high in estrogens for HER calf. It is unnatural for humans to eat animal estrogens, or progesterone--we need none of them. Cows, when their milk "production" drops, are sent to slaughter. A sizeable percentage of cows when killed are carrying a fetus (10% to 70% of cows killed are). What about their 'right to life". Raising, breeding farm animals for humans to exploit and slaughter is not harmless to them. Go vegan, for the cows and other animals, and drink almond, soy, or oatmilk. namaste' from a whole food ethical vegan 25+ years now.
Can you please justify , how it not the same with vegetable? Plants also has life right? Won't it get hurt? Please explain eating veggies is good ant hurting anyone. Thanks!
Read the Bible, example Exodus book, Jewish ate lamb in God's order. There is no matter what you eat, with Prasad everything is without sin, even every deed we have offer to God, because nothing belong to ourselves.
It must also be taken into consideration that some cannot eat only plant based diets. Some with autism , like me, cannot tolerate many vegtable textures. Others may have IBS that is aggrevated by vegetarian foods like beans. Eating meat does not hinder spiritual development in everyone.
Great video Its hard because people in the west are so ignorant, knowledge and wisdom over here is right in front of our very eyes but we just can't see it we focus on material world, the outside external world. Not a lot of people in the west know about spiritual knowledge, it seems as if only higher class people have these privileges over here or celebrities, not a lot of people are lucky i guess we're all born into different circumstances.
Not just animals, trees, grass, insects, even mountains...all have soul and deserve respect for within soul....human soul isn't different....human form capacity is to know selfspirit realization & God divinity Power Morality Nature. We're all travelling in 8 400 000 species life, death, reincarnation, human form is only one of it and must wait to complete near all of cycle before form is given. Animals predator consuming another as prey is Eternal System of Balance and justice...for what those souls had done as human to eachother is being balanced out... True...human body is not a graveyard or funeral pyre of dead body and carcass. Flesh eating is most corrupting, tamsic. Yamduta the guards of Yamlok (like a Jail) & Yamaraj devji (Eternal form of Justice Power of God) Yamduta (kind of like jailers, police, executioner yet not that and more divine greater complex) burn and chop the person again and make them whole again and then same thing all over....what the person did to some poor creature once, being returned with Divine interest. Not to mention that same creature becomes predator and the person who slaughtered becomes prey. Nature is NOT NEVER RANDOM. Even Natural occurences events what people call disasters as earthquakes tsunamis occur when such circumstances caused in environment Nature for them to occur by Bhole Baba (Mahadevji) or God of Destruction...when at that place, the weight of wrongdoing, negative or unnatural immoral bad energy increases from such actions of such people then to cleanse that out Nature acts...to make it lighter and better...and when clearing out dead grass, some green goes with it too. Sanatan (Eternal) Satya (Truth) Dharma ki Jay Ho. Om Namo Bhagwate Vasudevayah 🙏🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🔱🚩🔱🙏
❤️ VEGAN PEACE ❤️⚖️🕊️ I'm not a hindu, neither me a religion. But I have a Heart, Empathy, Moral Principles & Conscience! That's why I'm a vegan for past 21 years! (Not Vegetarian, but a Vegan! Veganism is not Vegetarianism! Vegan is NOT A DIET PLAN!) -IGNORANCE, HYPOCRISY & INSANITY- In the past... I ever eaten all kind of meat including dogs, cats, wild animals, crocodiles, whales, and dairy products! I ever hunted my own, and 🗡️stabbed the knife on throat of the Animals, their mothers, and their babies! I ever seen how they feel fear, cry, scream, and tremble before Death! But today... I had taken the responsibility for for the consequences of causing anonymous pain, sufferings and evil that I committed in the past! All these Karma were emitted to the Universe as a Negative Energy... and "what goes around, would still comes around!" Sonner or later, but certainly YES!!! -KINDNESS, MERCY- I don't have any belief! My religion is KINDNESS... and my God is MERCY! and My body is the HOLY TEMPLE! I AGAINST CRUELTY, VIOLENCE & EVIL. I'm an Hypocritical Moron if I didn't become a Vegan! -VEGETARIANISM & DAIRY INDUSTRIES- Dairy is even more insane, evil and cruel than beef. Don't be Lacto-vegetatian or Octo-vegetarian or Pesta-Vegetarian or Pollo-vegetarian! BE VEGAN INSTEAD! I'm KayJi, Singapore. ~Vegan for Justice to Animals; Advocate for Women Rights and Child Rights at United Nations.
go fully vegan bro. the egg and dairy industries are even worse because cows are raped to produce milk, their calves are taken away on their first day from them for veal and usually killed on the first day of birth and repeat till the cow physically incapable of producing milk or calves and then get sent to slaughter at last. egg industry treats eggs like commodities, male chicks are usually killed in a grinder alive on first day and hens are sexually exploited yet again to produce many eggs till they cannot handle it. basically byproducts make the suffering even longer for the female counterparts.
The philosophical complexities deepen further when we consider the Vedantic perspective that all life emanates from a single divine source, Sri Krishna. In this view, every blade of grass is as much a manifestation of this cosmic energy as a cow or any other animal. Therefore, the ethical precepts of veganism, which ostensibly prioritize animal life over plant life, appear to be in dissonance with this spiritual understanding. Moreover, it remains a salient point that large-scale agricultural practices often result in greater collateral animal fatalities than does the meat industry. Hence, in light of these spiritual and empirical observations, one might argue that the ethical foundations of veganism contain intrinsic contradictions.
Kittens start off on milk too and then… I’m a vegetarian but this logic is a little flawed. But I do think people should not eat meat. I have to say even as vegetarian for years I was still extremely angry and irritable that’s not the whole picture of being happy. If you become vegetarian you will not automatically be happy trust me.
I'm an aspiring chef studying in a hotel management college as a part of my work I hv to taste meat I also want to pursue spirituality. I in my personal life eat an almost vegetarian and sattvik diet what if can I taste meat in a really small quantity to check the taste will it be considered karma yoga if I taste it without any personal motives. Pls hlp I meditate regularly but now my College has reopened nd I hv to taste it it's almost impossible fr a vegetarian chef to make non veg without tasting it pls provide answers
I think you are on the right path, because it is the one you feel inside. Keep praying in your own way or however you feel spirituality inside you, be firm in your path inside of your heart, stick to your own inner values and eventually, college will end and you will for sure work as a vegetarian or even vegan chef, by God's grace.
I feel most sad that I ate meat all my life but I hv left it now n m happy that hv left it n m feeling great just so very sad that I didn’t get this realisation sooner Swamiji is absolutely rite We are destroying Mother Earth by doing such atrocities infact should give bk to her by planting more n more trees by not eating n by even stopping our friends n family n relatives to not eat meat by being good to all beings Animals too hv a rite to live with respect m dignity We owe it to them
This is when we need to listen to our bodies over others' perspectives. I respect and understand what he is saying, but my body needs certain nutrients from meat. I honor it and thank it for its sacrifice and hope that one day my body can go without meat but in this moment it can't and I must accept that. Take care ❤️
Vegetarians still eat milk and eggs so they supposedly get it there, but for vegans they say you need to supplement. But this is a myth because the body produces b12 in the mouth and in the small intestine. That's one of the myths that meat and dairy industries have been pushing as a scare tactic to try and show vegan is an inferior diet. Most people that are b12 deficient eat meat and dairy but they're deficient because they have poor gut health. Our body is alkaline and electric therefore we need alkaline and electric foods. Please take a look at these websites www.b12-vitamin.com/gut-bacteria/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7354869/ adaptt.org/resources/vitamins-minerals-and-other-nutrients.html
I'm surrounded with Family and friends who are vegetarians and you all seem to have issues in life and never happy. As for me, I eat meat but tend to have seafood more. I don't like it but finding hard to give up as I did try once to become vegan but put on 2 kg. I honestly believe vegan or vegetarian is the way to move forward but with me it will be on and off.
People these days are so deprived of their natural instincts and habitats and freedoms, they need to consume animals to get some kind of spirituality even if that spirituality is negative.
El mono, el elefante, la vaca y otros animales también son vegetarianos. ¿ y cuál sería la diferencia entonces? Con los animales vegetarianos y los animales carnívoros y los seres humanos???. Es la conciencia de Krishna. Aunque lleves una dieta vegetariana también incurrirá en karma, en pecado. Por eso muy bien explica Krishna. " todo lo que comas ofrecemelo a Mi". Otro pasaje nos dice: " si alguien me ofrece con amor y devoción una hoja, frutas o flores. Yo la aceptaré "". Es decir que Dios nos pide nuestro amor y devoción. Esa comida esta libre de pecados. Es pasadam, misericordia. De nada sirve ser verano o vegetariano aunque nos alimentamos de comidas satvicas. Si no la ofrecemos como sacrificio a la Suprema Personalidad de Dios. Krishna. Y para esta era de Kali Yuga. La mejor manera de realizar a Dios es cantando sus santos nombres. Hare krishna, Hare krishna krishna krishna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama , Rama Rama, Hare Hare. No hay otra manera más sublime y pura que el maha mantra hare krishna. Ya que todas las escrituras nos enseñan que no hay diferencias entre el nombre y la forma de krishna. Entonces si bien es importante predicar las comidas Satvicas. Es imperativo también que se ofrezca la comida al Señor.
Eating meat causes problems, lust, anger, negativity and low vibration Eating fruits and vegetables and having a high vibration will make you happy most of the time
I see so many hindu's hung up on what they should eat, astrology, vastu , build ram temple or mosque etc ... but if i ask them to speak about three Upanishad's they can't .... They are mostly religious and ritualistic and know ramanayana and mahabaratha (since it was shown in tv). But they have know idea of upanishads and vedas.
1. Well, if animal has soul (as Guruji suggests) then after being killed it continues living and can reincarnate into another animal or human. Soul has eternal life, so killing physical body is not really taking life. 2. Being born into a cow/bull body could be karmic consequence of past lives 3. Not all spiritual teachers were vegetarian. For example, Jesus ate meat. Not as much as modern people, but he certainly did. 4. Vegetarianism is more of cultural thing than moral or spiritual issue 5. Vegetarians don't live very long, i never heard of vegetarian centenarians. Vegetarians commonly suffer from nutrient deficiencies especially vit B12, zinc, iron, calcium, omega 3, in addition they are often low on proteins and their foods often high in saturated fats. 6. Violence in this world does not come from eating meat. Hitler by the way, was vegetarian, did you folks know? With all due respect to the Guruji, i disagree on this issue.
Vegetarian food does not reduce power, it infect feels better and powerful. i left meat eating 20 years ago and feel light and fit. I can run for hours without feeling tired. Many people leaving meat eating, I saw around that people are leaving meat eating.
I hope those who stopped eating meat also realize that eating fruits nuts and veggies must be consumed properly with proper combination at proper times and don’t go straight for your blender.
There is also a god in the cemetery grounds, and in the Smashan, everything at last, will be transmuted into prasad . So we are. It has also been said: 'It is not what goes into a man's mouth that makes him unclean, but what comes out of his mouth, that is what makes him unclean.' (Matthew 15:10). Now, I am certain that the beloved Guru knows that everything rests on a subtle balance of forces. And I am certain that many Westerners would benefit from turning to vegetarianism. But not all, as this is not desirable in the order of things. It could also upset the balance of forces present in our time. It could lead to the extinction of species as well as the deforestation that would follow. Therefore, it must be so. And there are permissions granted, and this cannot be judged by men who walk. However, preaching for one's own cause is not forbidden, and what is said is certainly very true. Perhaps we, Westerners, are the result of our consumption... and something else. Thank you for this reflection. Greet your gods, whom I respect.
I am so ashamed that I realised that I should eat no meat because it's damn wrong, when I was 19. 19! That is so late! But on the other side I am also angry that parents and schools tought us that eating meat is fine! 🤦♀️🤦♀️😡😡
Anger is great for rooting out the hypocrisy inside ourselves of the negative karma we created in past life that caused us to be born in a melecha family, those without VEDA, when we have rooted out the hypocrisy in ourselves, the anger is naturally transformed into active loving kindness in compassion in asserting the dharma of ahimsa to others through example, and sharing the truth about meat eating qnd it's consequences, both material and Spiritual for those who are open to receiving such, sometimes plant a seed of sharing the science that shows meat eaters are 200% more likely to get cancer can be a trigger to set another in the direction of ahimsa. Never too late to change for the better. Your family needs your love if they are lost in delusion not illusion, just as you were to choose them for your birth in this lifetime. So your anger transformed into assertiveness to teach about the benefits of a vegetarian diet to others will change the world, where as anger contributes as active violence to the negativity in the world. It is the rajasic passion of anger that is is killing and eating animals.....if you are angry, you are not getting your desire fulfilled and the frustration of not getting what you want causes the anger..... by teaching other's you help transform your anger.
Guruji, it becomes very dificult to be a vegetarian, or argue in favor of vegetarianism, when most of vegetarians are these socialists woke people. Same way they say they care about animals lifes, they are pro-abortion and do not care about babys lifes, or they preach about more coercion from the state upon others with more taxation, regulation, and also, they position themselves against the self-defense right. But they are vegetarians and spiritual, so they are good. Isn't that much worse than eating meat? And how to separate these two things, socialism and vegetarianism, when such a terrible example come from so many people who becomes vegetarian? It also has been difficult for me to stand full on vegetarian diet...These kinds of vegetarians call themselves peaceful, but the example they give is the opposite of that. They are not open to hearing or maintaining an honest intelectual debate or dialogue, they also hate free-speech and call for censorship....They are everything, but not peaceful, they like to be seen as peaceful, but they are pacifists...Instead of projecting aggression externally they project internally, or upon their own kind/society, they become misanthropes. Would you have some advice on how to deal with this situation? It seems beyond of my individual capacity. Thanks, JGD
