Only Self-Haters Will Eat Meat || Acharya Prashant (2019)

Acharya Prashant

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  ➖➖➖➖➖➖  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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