Does eating meat affect one's spiritual awareness?
Questioner: So food has an effect on the mind, is that also certain?
Dadashri: All of this is indeed the effect of food. Once food is eaten, it turns into ‘brandy’ [alcohol] in the stomach, and because of this ‘brandy’, one remains engrossed in the mind-body complex due to being in a state of unawareness as the Self. Even this saatvik food gives rise to ‘brandy’, however, it is a very small amount. It is similar to the effect of losing one’s awareness completely when one drinks that other brandy that comes in a bottle. The food that is consumed, all of it gets converted into ‘brandy’. These ladoos (spherical shaped Indian sweet), the ones that are made specifically to eat in winter, all those items are not saatvik! Saatvik means very light food, whereas ladoos increase intoxication. However, people turn these principles around according to their own convenience.
Questioner: Does eating non-vegetarian food affect one’s spiritual thinking?
Dadashri: Definitely. Non-vegetarian food is heavy, so it does not allow the development of the spiritually-inclined intellect. If one wants to progress spiritually, he should eat light food, the kind that does not give rise to intoxication and allows the awareness to increase. Besides, it’s not as though these people have awareness to begin with.
The scientists from abroad cannot understand these concepts of ‘ours’. Those scientists said, “Well! This is a point worth pondering over, but we cannot accept it.” So ‘we’ explained to them, “It will still take a lot of time to do that. You have consumed so many chickens, so it will take quite some time. You need to eat lentil soup and rice. You need to be a pure vegetarian.” Vegetarian food creates a comparatively thinner avaran (veil of ignorance over the Knowledge of the Self), so vegetarians can understand this Gnan, they can see everything as it is. Whereas non-vegetarians have a thicker avaran.
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