Full Video: Is eating animals the same as eating plants, as plants too have life? || Acharya Prashant (2019)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5M9rw1gyZE&t=0s
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Video Information: Month of Awakening, 25.06.2019, Naukuchiatal, India
Context:
~ Is eating animals same as eating plants?
~ Do animals have more value than plants?
~ What is that one reason that makes me take plants over animals?
~ Is killing plants necessary to survival?
~ What is that we all really value in life?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5M9rw1gyZE&t=0s
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Video Information: Month of Awakening, 25.06.2019, Naukuchiatal, India
Context:
~ Is eating animals same as eating plants?
~ Do animals have more value than plants?
~ What is that one reason that makes me take plants over animals?
~ Is killing plants necessary to survival?
~ What is that we all really value in life?
Music Credits: Milind Date
~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .
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00:00That means we are also killing our consciousness in some way, because there is a correlation
00:07that if the meat consumption is there, there is also alcohol consumption, so in a way like
00:16we don't love our consciousness and that's why we are…
00:21True.
00:22The less you love yourself, the more likely it is that you will be a flesh eater.
00:29And the more you love yourself, the more you know your welfare, the more determined you
00:36are to help yourself out of this mess, the more loving and more compassionate you will
00:46be towards all conscious beings.
00:49So, we can say that in a way, the mind is more loving towards…
01:01Yes.
01:02It's a more permanent solution.
01:06Yes.
01:07So, not only get rid of the animal cruelty, but other cruelties also.
01:17True.
01:18Because rape is also such thing where consciousness is not being very…
01:24Correct.
01:25And there is a definite correlation between these things.
01:27All kinds of cruelties come from the same source.
01:31Be it rape, be it debauchery, be it environmental damage or be it flesh consumption or be it
01:47dairy consumption, all of them are correlated.
01:52They all have a central root which is lack of love, which is lack of awareness, which
02:00is a lot of ignorance.
02:04And when they go away, it is quite likely that all of them will together in a bundle
02:10disappear.
02:12So, to the bigger picture, spirituality is the only solution.
02:21Spirituality is the only solution to everything.
02:24Spirituality is the only solution to the one we are.
02:28It is not merely a solution to our problems.
02:32It is the solution that dissolves the one we are.
03:11This logic is given quite often for eating animals.
03:25For example, in coastal regions, they say that we find fishes here, that's why.
03:30What else we can eat?
03:32You find your family members regularly in your house.
03:36Why don't you eat them?
03:39This is nonsensical logic.
03:42If you say that in coastal regions you find fish, then in your house you daily find your
03:49wife and your kid and your parents.
03:51Why don't you eat them up?
03:53It's not about what you easily find, what you can easily lay your hands on.
04:08Then there is the very common argument of flesh eating being physically natural to man.
04:26People come up and say, you know, all our ancestors were flesh eaters.
04:32When man used to live in the jungle, he was a flesh eater.
04:37So why are we doing something so unnatural today?
04:41Why are we saying that we don't need to have flesh?
04:48This is quite interesting.
04:55More ridiculous than interesting, but still interesting.
05:00If you talk of Prakriti and if you say, you know, in Prakriti man has been a flesh eater
05:07and therefore we must continue eating flesh, then we must also continue living on trees.
05:17Man has left Prakriti far behind.
05:21Now why do you want to opportunistically quote Prakriti in order to just justify appeasing
05:29your taste buds?
05:33If living in a Prakritic way is so dear to you, then you go back to the jungle.
05:39If you say that when man used to live in the jungle, he used to eat flesh, so we must continue
05:45eating flesh, then I'll say we must continue living in the jungle.
05:50You didn't bat an eyelid leaving the jungle.
05:55Leaving the jungle was so much okay with all of us.
06:00Then we didn't say, oh it is anti-nature to leave the jungle.
06:06In the jungle, did you have houses of brick and concrete?
06:11Did you have?
06:12No.
06:13So why are you having it?
06:14In the jungle, did you have the institution of marriage?
06:16In the jungle, did you have language?
06:19In the jungle, did you have money?
06:21In the jungle, did you have air conditioners?
06:23In the jungle, did you have science?
06:25Prakriti does not give you any of these.
06:27Prakriti gives you no science, no social institutions, no money, no knowledge, no language.
06:34So you have already left Prakriti behind.
06:36Man's center is no longer Prakriti.
06:38Now why are you unnecessarily quoting Prakriti to say, when we used to live in the jungle,
06:43then we used to have flesh, so let's continue to have flesh.
06:46I repeat, if you want to continue to have flesh, then go back to the jungle.
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