Spirituality and Vegetarianism

Such words i feel are not about justifying vegetarianism as a dogma but rather imploring to our hearts the deeper side of nutrition and it's importance in modern society.

How do you feel spiritually whenever you eat a meal that includes meat? You’ve almost certainly never given it any consideration, but that could be because spiritually you are feeling nothing after eating a meal of meat apart from feeling tired, sluggish,lethargic, and listless. A diet regime of meat makes our bodies less functional, and we think of nourishing our bodies when it comes to our organs and blood, but we don’t frequently take into consideration how what we consume can impact the most important organ in our body, the Brain.

When you eat a vegetarian diet, you start to feel physically lighter and healthy. When your body is fit, your mind is also lightened. Most cultures that focus more on spirituality and enlightenment are also vegetarian cultures. From the beginning of recorded history we are able to observe that vegetables have been the natural food of human beings. Early Greek and Hebrew myths all spoke of people originally eating fruit. Ancient Egyptian priests never consumed meat. Many great Greek philosophers for example Plato, Diogenes, and Socrates all advocated vegetarianism.

In India, Shakyamuni Buddha stressed the importance of Ahimsa, the principle of not harming any living things. He warned His disciples not to eat meat, or else other living beings would become afraid of them. Buddha made the following observations: "Meat eating is simply an acquired habit. In the beginning we were not born with a desire for it." "Flesh eating people discontinue their inner seed of Great Mercy." "Flesh eating people kill each other and eat one another ... this life I eat you, and next life you eat me ... and it always continues in this way. How can they ever get out of the Three Realms (of illusion)?"

These are cultures which have been considered more enlightened and focused more on spirituality than maybe Western culture. If we are to evolve into more spiritual beings, then we must begin to manage our physical lives in a way that will enhance our spirituality, and this means taking the path of vegetarianism as a path to enlightenment.

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