Full Video: Why must kids turn vegan? || Acharya Prashant (2019)
Link:https://youtu.be/VCj9Dw4rA-0?feature=shared
Video Information: Shabdyog session, 31.05.2019, Advait Bodhsthal, Greater Noida, India
Context:
~ Is veganism unnatural?
~ Why must kids turn vegan?
~ How to teach veganism to kids?
~ What is vegan movement?
~ What is the relationship between veganism and spirituality?
~ Why veganism is necessary for today's generation?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Link:https://youtu.be/VCj9Dw4rA-0?feature=shared
Video Information: Shabdyog session, 31.05.2019, Advait Bodhsthal, Greater Noida, India
Context:
~ Is veganism unnatural?
~ Why must kids turn vegan?
~ How to teach veganism to kids?
~ What is vegan movement?
~ What is the relationship between veganism and spirituality?
~ Why veganism is necessary for today's generation?
Music Credits: Milind Date
~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .
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00:00Intellect is the center of today's man.
00:15If that be so, why not use the same intellect in a godly way?
00:27If intellect is what we are identified with, why not surrender this same intellect to the
00:32service of God?
00:40Why not for example use the intellect to create sources of vitamin B12 and proteins and many
01:02other vitamins and minerals that are not exploitative towards animals?
01:21If you say that you must provide your daughter with a protein rich diet, why does the protein
01:31have to come from dairy?
01:33When everything in your life is anyway factory produced, why not use factory produced protein
01:42as well?
01:43People say, oh, but that would be unnatural.
01:49Hello, if you want to be fully natural, then live on the trees.
01:55Is it natural to live in houses?
01:58Is it natural to wear clothes?
02:00Is it natural to go to schools?
02:03By nature you mean Prakriti, right?
02:05Do all these things happen in the jungle?
02:08But when you live in the house, then you do not say, oh, it is unnatural.
02:17When you live in the house, do you say it is unnatural, I will not do it.
02:23Now man has come out of the jungle.
02:27He is anyway no more Prakriti.
02:31His center is not Prakriti, neither is his center Atma.
02:37His center is Buddhi.
02:40It's a very strange situation that man is in.
02:45What is the center of an animal?
02:48What is the center of the saint?
02:50What is the center of today's man?
02:53So use this same Buddhi in the service of truth.
03:01You live in an industrialized, heavily industrialized western country, Elmari.
03:08How is it not possible to have artificial sources of vitamin C, D, A, B, B12?
03:22How is it not possible to manufacture proteins just as you manufacture everything else?
03:27Why is it necessary that the protein molecule must come from an animal's body?
03:36Why is it necessary?
03:38On one hand, we pride ourselves in factory producing everything.
03:44Can't we factory produce protein?
03:53Must you kill to have protein?
03:59Some people even say veganism is unnatural and their biggest argument is vitamin B12.
04:05They say this vitamin can come only from an animal source and human body requires this.
04:15So this is the proof that veganism is unnatural.
04:19They mean a Prakriti.
04:21I agree, veganism is not Prakriti.
04:25But then why must it be Prakriti?
04:27Is man Prakriti anymore?
04:30If you want to be Prakriti, then I say go back and live in the jungle.
04:35You have come out of the jungle.
04:37Is marriage Prakriti?
04:39Are there marriages in the jungle?
04:41So marriage is the first thing that is unnatural.
04:46Is language Prakriti?
04:47Are there languages in the jungle?
04:50Are there clothes in the jungle?
04:52Are there countries in the jungle?
04:54Are there constitutions in the jungle?
04:55Are there vehicles in the jungle?
04:58But then to all these things you do not say, oh these are unnatural.
05:02To all these things you are happily amenable.
05:07But the moment it is discovered that vitamin B12 cannot be found except in an animal source,
05:18you rejoice and say, you see, now veganism is ticked off because it is proven that veganism
05:28is unnatural.
05:29Yes, of course, veganism is unnatural.
05:34And just as you choose so many things that are unnatural, choose veganism as well.
05:45Do not choose it because it is natural.
05:49Do not choose it because it is coming from compassion.
05:59Do not choose it because of Prakriti.
06:03Choose it because of Karuna.
06:06And these are two very, very different arguments.
06:09There are the naturalists who say that you should choose what is there in Prakriti.
06:14I strongly deny that.
06:17I am not a naturalist.
06:18I do not say that you should live as Prakriti lives.
06:22In Prakriti, all creatures or rather most creatures except the nocturnal ones sleep
06:29at night.
06:31I conduct my sessions after midnight.
06:34Am I Prakritic?
06:36Am I?
06:40So I am not at all a supporter of Prakriti.
06:43In fact, all spirituality is about transcending Prakriti.
06:47So I am not a naturalist.
06:49I stand for transcendence of physical nature which you call as Prakriti.
06:56But in transcending Prakriti, I do not want to stop at buddhi or intellect.
07:02In transcending Prakriti, I want to reach the Atma or truth where compassion resides.
07:10Get the difference please.
07:13Usually people think that spirituality and naturalism go together.
07:19They think you know if you are a spiritual man, then you would love fruits and all kinds
07:26of animal products.
07:30And these two often are seen together.
07:33The moment a person picks up some spiritual text, he also starts eating more raw food.
07:45It is often a combination.
07:52It is seen that spiritual people go to the jungles.
07:59So somehow a correlation has been established in the mind that spirituality and Prakriti
08:05go together.
08:06No, wrong.
08:09Spirituality is transcendence of Prakriti.
08:12And when you transcend Prakriti, then you can really love Prakriti.
08:17It is a thing that you have to appreciate.
08:20Those who do not transcend Prakriti remain attached with Prakriti.
08:25And if you remain attached with Prakriti, you will consume Prakriti.
08:28For example, if you remain attached to your own body, then you will kill somebody's body
08:34to feed your own body.
08:36If you are attached to Prakriti, you will rape Prakriti.
08:41But the saint goes beyond Prakriti, from there he can just lovingly witness and watch Prakriti.
08:49Then he doesn't interfere with Prakriti or consume it or rape it.
08:55Are you getting it?
08:59In fact, a lot of damage to Prakriti is being brought about by Prakriti lovers as well.
09:06So they would say, you know, we require a particular type of fruit.
09:14Now for that type of fruit to be grown, all other species of trees are being cut off.
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