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Are you a vegetarian?
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Aupmanyav
Be your own guru
Yeah, ethics and morals belong to humans. Brahman goes by its ways unaffected.
Ana.J
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It's like... yesterday I ate cucumber and lettuce, so I'm vegetarian/vegan. Today I'm gonna eat chicken (I think), so I eat meat. Omnivore-ism is eating both, so I'm both.How is that?
Rick O'Shez
Irishman bouncing off walls
I'm still struggling to find the relevance of your initial statement regarding Brahman being the eater and the eaten, then.
See ya in hell!
As someone who's usually quite respectful, I can only assume you don't understand that it is actually pretty rude to throw something like that in the people's faces in a thread where it is obvious ethical vegetarians are going to be present.
I'm only responding in the same manner, not to mention that I get tons of what you described from others here. But I see it offended you. For that I humbly apologize for it and I meant it as a joke only (turned out to be a bad one), not to offend. I'll delete my post. Sorry again.
Aupmanyav
Be your own guru
Who eats - a glob of atoms/energy. Who is eaten - a glob of atoms/energy. Brahman. It is not some thing that I say. Our sages said it many milleniums ago. It is the Hindu food prayer.
Brahmārpanam Brahma Havir, Brahmāgnau Brahmanāhutam;
Brahmaiva Tena Gantavyam, Brahmakarma Samādhinā.
Aham Vaishvānaro Bhutvā, Prāninām Dehamāshritah;
Prānāpāna Samayuktah, Pachāmyannam Chaturvidham.
The act of offering is God, the oblation is God, By God it is offered into the Fire of God;
God is That which is to be attained by him, who performs action pertaining to God.
Becoming the life-fire in the bodies of living beings;
mingling with the subtle breaths, I digest the four kinds of food*.
* Four kind of foods - Solid, fluid, semi-fluid and liquid.
BhagavadGita (4.24, 15.14)
https://www.sathyasai.org/devotion/prayers/brahmar.html
(not responsible for the translation. My translation will replace God with the original word, Brahman)
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Right, I don't disagree, that was understandable. But how is it relevant to vegetarianism?
And oats, and barley, and chemicals.
Have you ever tasted grass? Not good. I don't know how they do it.
And cause you mighta forgot ... the blueberries were on Range Road 205 north of Victoria Trail.
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Rick O'Shez
Irishman bouncing off walls
Aupmanyav
Be your own guru
It is a very noble idea but not every one is up to it.
I decided to become Vegetarian about a week ago.
Not sure how long I will last, but I'll try. It should be easy since I have eaten less and less of the two meats I would eat before, and before that I ate basically anything. So it's just part of the same process I guess.
Not sure how long I will last, but I'll try. It should be easy since I have eaten less and less of the two meats I would eat before, and before that I ate basically anything. So it's just part of the same process I guess.