We are Trustees, Not Consumers! || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Hollow Veganism || Acharya Prashant, in Conversation (2022)

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00:00Humans are in some sense superior because we're closer towards enlightenment.

00:04So what is your thought on that?

00:07The one who is superior in the spiritual tradition is vested with a lot of responsibility.

00:12Like the superior one in the family.

00:15What will the superior one in the family do?

00:17Eat up the small ones or bring them up.

00:20That's the answer.

00:21I advise specifically the Muslim community when they say that it is mentioned in the Holy Quran

00:27that all the little creatures and all these they are made for man.

00:31I ask them what does it mean made for man?

00:35It means that they are made for the compassion of man.

00:38They are made as the responsibility of man to take care of them.

00:43We are the trustee and the trustee is not supposed to consume what he has been entrusted with.

00:48You are supposed to take care of them, not assault them, not kill them, not consume them, not exploit them.