Question: What about vegetarianism?
Question: What about vegetarianism? And, if you believe that by eating meat, war can ever be at peace, how can we achieve our spiritual breakthrough?
Shri Mataji: All right, you become vegetarian. All right? So it’s all right for you to become vegetarian and receive that all right?
Any ‘ism’ is against Sahaj Yoga, any ‘ism’ is against, ‘ism’ is a mental idea, it’s not the truth, it’s not reality, you have to face the reality as it is with your mental projections you do not do not conform to something. First of all find out what is right and what is wrong through your Spirit, in the light of the Spirit you find out and then you decide. It is no use before hand just to decide this is the thing and that is the thing.
You see this kind of nonsensical ideas people had so many to such an extent that in India we have Jainism in which they do not even kill the bugs or the mosquitoes or anything and they don’t want to go in the W.C.’s but they go onto some hills and the Mayor of Bombay came to ask Me: “What should we do about it?” Because they say that in our religion we cannot even kill these things which are being excreted out, so now we have to save them, imagine, we have to save human beings. Are we going to give Realizations to chickens or what?
You have to be sensible enough first of all to ask for your spiritual ascent and then decide, don’t decide before hand, it’s like the snake story I told you just now.
So this is what it is, we have vegetarians in India so what. Have they all gone to God? There are so many who will tell you that they are the cruelest people. we are Marwaris are are all vegetarians, what do you think about them? They have no humanity of any kind, no humanity. We have to be kind to human beings first of all. First of all we have to be kind to our fellow men. She is a vegetarian and how much she shouts, can you imagine? For a vegetarian she is shouting so much what’s the use of being vegetarian, you have to be a mild person at least when you are shouting.
Editor | Public Lecture (Miami USA '90)
