Veganism with reasons will not sustain || Acharya Prashant

Acharya Prashant

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00:00 Vegetarianism or veganism cannot be a taught quality. It has to be something of the heart.

00:12 You cannot give arguments in favour of it. It has to be a destroyer of all arguments.

00:21 You are really a vegan if in spite of all arguments you are still a vegan. Tomorrow

00:29 a body of evidence may arise which says that if you are a vegan then such and such minerals

00:35 and vitamins get deficient within your body. Now in spite of all that evidence and that

00:41 evidence might be scientifically accurate but if in spite of that evidence you say I

00:48 am what I am and I refuse to do that which is against my nature then you are really a

00:55 vegan because veganism is about having the right relationship with the world around you.

01:03 Veganism in its essence is religion. You cannot just say I am a vegan. You are actually stating

01:11 your religion when you say that. One does not look at it that way but that's what it

01:18 really is. To be a vegan does not feel pleasurable. I know this might disappoint you but please.

01:32 It does not feel like anything. In fact to live rightly and to have a right relationship

01:39 with the world is to gain freedom from various kinds of feelings. As long as one eats to

01:48 get a certain feeling, the eating would always involve violence. So if you are promoting

01:57 veganism kindly do not promote a culture of feeling because all feeling is excitement.

02:07 All feeling is experiential. All feeling is sensory and all feeling is fleeting. One does

02:13 not live by his feelings. One cannot live by his feelings. One has to live by the truth.

02:22 One feels a lot in his everyday life and that feeling itself is man's hell and torture.

02:32 Why do you enjoy sleep? You enjoy sleep because sleep is a cessation of all feeling. Sleep

02:39 is a non-feeling and that's why it's the best feeling. Being a vegan I do not feel

02:47 a lot of things that others feel. I do not feel tension. I do not feel excitement and

02:55 because I do not feel pleasure I also do not feel pain. It's a beautiful silence. It's

03:03 a lovely thing and this love that I am referring to is not a feeling. It's something far more

03:10 deeper than feeling. I am tempted to use the word mystical but that has its own images

03:19 and connotations so I would rather avoid. Don't live by feelings. Don't live by images.

03:28 Don't live by experiences. You go to any of the restaurants and they'll say come experience

03:37 this new kind of food. Is this not new cuisine, not really exciting? Now excitement, experience,

03:48 feeling, emotion, titillation, pleasure, they are all words belonging to the same family

03:55 and as long as these words carry value in our mind, man will not be able to be kind

04:09 to himself or to the world. If excitement is a value then there is a lot of value in

04:18 hunting. If experience is a value then it is always a new experience to kill a new species.

04:36 Only understanding, that is the highest value, that is the highest freedom. And if one does

04:45 need to have a feeling, the feeling can be, must be to be situated in that understanding.

04:56 This feeling is love. That is the only thing that one wants, really wants, then it really

05:02 is love. I want to understand. I want to live by my nature. I want to live simply innocently.

05:09 This want is love.

05:11 [Music]

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