Meat is Tamsik, not conducive to Physical or spiritual growth
Pranam all
I thought I start a new thread.
What does Shastra say about what we eat? How does it impact our sadhana? is what we eat detrimental to our physical as well as spiritual health? Yam and Niyam are integral part of our dharma our spiritual growth or lack there off is directly related how strictly one adheres to it.
Ahar is closely related to our behaviour we can clearly see that in a child who is fed on junk food becomes hyperactive.
One may argue Shastra do not prohibit meat eating some would even find a verse out of context to prove a point. Off course there are verses explicitly prohibit eating meat I shell try provide that in due course.
SD dharma is unique because it places a lot of responsibility on an individual to make its own judgement as to where his journey will take him/her.
Bhagvat Gita speaks off Ahar in chapter 17 they come in three different modes Satvik rajsik and tamsik
meat would certainly fall in Tamsik mode.
And that action performed in ignorance and delusion without consideration of future bondage or consequences, which inflicts injury and is impractical, is said to be action in the mode of ignorance. 18.25BG
Dharma enjoy us to be in mode of goodness and rise above it, getting stuck in the mode of Tamas will certainly not lead us out off it.
One of the leg the dharma stands on is Ahimsa, from which flows daya or Karuna (compassion), it behoves us to have mercy on those creatures, they are not created for our pleasure, we do not need to eat them to survive.
Jai Shree Krishna
Rig Veda list only 33 devas, they are all propitiated, worthy off our worship, all other names of gods are derivative from this 33 originals,
Bhagvat Gita; Shree Krishna says Chapter 3.11 devan bhavayatanena te deva bhavayantu vah parasparam bhavayantah sreyah param avapsyatha Chapter 17.4 yajante sattvika devan yaksa-raksamsi rajasah pretan bhuta-ganams canye yajante tamasa janah
The world disappears in him. He is the peaceful, the good, the one without a second.
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