Posted by: nigel ®
03/28/2004, 05:31:50
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| Guru Maharaj Ji: | People will watch television and they see those cowboy movies, and cowboys used to take raw meat and eat that, and they get like that. They got like animals and they used to kill anyone around. How you eat, so you become. See, the way you eat, the way you become. And that's why I want there should be much less food, because that makes you more active. If you just think about eating, eating, eating, you will get lazy like an animal. Eat less, it will make you more active. | Q: | Maharaj Ji, does it make a difference if a person eats meat or not ? Does it affect their Meditation. | Guru Maharaj Ji: | I know one thing - 'what you eat, so you become'. I say from experience. I'll tell you one thing, since it's not meant for human beings to eat meat and there's a very logical explanation - may be you even know it. You know, it's like people or the beings that are supposed to eat meat, like cats, lions or animals like that, they always lick water. They don't, they don't suck water. They always lick it. They take their tongue out like that. You have seen how a cat drinks water and how a dog drinks it. But beings that suck water don't eat meat. And that's the way it's supposed to be. And man sucks water - does not lick water, since he is not supposed to eat meat. And God has provided him and made him the king of all nature - not to kill other beings, but to... He has given all the fruits in the world, anything he wants, a big head up here ….. so he has just to utilize everything. And try to understand the beauty and to grasp the beauty of the fruits God has given us. Because I'll tell you, it's really healthy too. Body can just really accept it. And that's the way it is. Yes ? | Q: | Why wouldn't you say that when you pick a plant you are killing the plant too ? I mean... | Guru Maharaj Ji: | Well, because that's, that's the thing; that little killing is meant to be for you. And that's O.K | Q: | A plant still has consciousness. | Guru Maharaj Ji: | A plant has consciousness, but where is the consciousness? | Q: | I don't know. | Guru Maharaj Ji: | See, this is the thing. Where is the consciousness? | Someone: | The root. | Guru Maharaj Ji: | The root is the consciousness, but where does the consciousness actually lie ? Because root, if you take root itself, it's in a seed. You see, there is a little explanation to that. If you are eating meat, you are eating out of a being, right ? Like supposedly, some people eat cow, right? Cow comes from life, a mother. Right ? And that also come from a life, and it's a life to a life to a life circle. But a plant does not come from a life. It comes from dead, from a seed which is dead. It doesn't need any nutrition. It's a dead seed. When you plant it, and that's when it becomes (alive), for it to grow, and to give you fruits. | Q: | What if you eat an animal that comes from a seed? I mean, an animal.. | Guru Maharaj Ji: | Well, I wouldn't object to... | Q: | You could call an egg a seed. A chicken comes from an egg; an egg is a seed. Isn't it? Is an egg alive? The one you buy in a store? | Guru Maharaj Ji: | No. The egg is killed already. Then... see, it's like, it's not like a seed. Still it isn't like a seed. Because seed is inert, dead.[6] |
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Clearly, if 'how you eat, so you become', Guru Maharaj Ji subsists on a diet of fruitcake, nuts and crackers… But the guru's words typify with - let's face it - awe-inspiring ignorance the inexplicably persuasive thought patterns that guide many a claimant to culinary moral superiority. It works like this: say any old rubbish - if it is ancient wisdom then so much the better. If it is sufficiently plausible for the willing minds of your followers to take on board then that's good enough. At least, it would seem, the fructarian can stop worrying about those pips.
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