This is an extremely important piece of advice for young people who are single and intend to get married.
People are mostly attracted by impermanent factors such as good looks, wealth, and status, and they completely overlook the fact that nothing stays the same forever.
It would be worth reflecting on the quote by Friedrich Nietzsche before taking any major decision in life.
I am no expert on the subject, but I did a hell of a lot of research on the subject. I am not educating you on the subject, but I am only asking you to come out of your bubble of ignorance spread by gargantuan industries with vested interests, and to set your mind on researching the subject of plant-based nutrition.
Being healthy, strong, fit, and youthful certainly does not call for hurting animals, misusing them, abusing them, being cruel to them, drinking their liquids, or eating them.
Respect Mother Nature by being kind to all living beings, including yourselves. Your stomach is not a resting place for dead animals, nor do you, as an adult, need to drink mammary milk or consume anything made from it!
“Oh, but that is part of our culture and traditions, and that’s what our elders have always done,” is a typical argument of people who are closed to evolution, be it spiritual, cultural, or dietary. It would be worthwhile remembering that every ‘tradition’ or ‘custom’ has its source in some individual’s mind or rather, from one individual’s choice, which could have been simply to satisfy some need they had at some point in time. Another reason could be that old metaphors were taken too literally.
यद्यदाचरति श्रेष्ठस्तत्तदेवेतरो जनः |
स यत्प्रमाणं कुरुते लोकस्तदनुवर्तते || ३ २१ ||
yadhyadaa-charathi shresht-has-
thattha-devetaro janaha
sa yat-pramaaNam kurute
lokastha-dhanu-varthathe (SBG 3:21)
Krishna says: Whatever or whichever action an important person does, others follow him and emulate him. What he does becomes a standard for the others.
A certain ‘custom’ started by an ‘important person’ is followed en masse by people who are around that person. A large number of people then blindly follow those traditions without challenging them or questioning them, only because an important individual practised them, and doing so quickly becomes a social custom.
Remember that arguments and excuses such as ‘My forefathers have been doing it, and so I too would continue doing it, are neither sensible nor intelligent. We should not be forgetting that our forefathers lived their lives with no cars, aircraft, computers, mobile phones and Social Media!
Throughout decades and centuries, the practices of a certain ‘important person’ change and are modified, resulting in bizarre practices that have little in common with the original idea that led the first man to practise them! The worst part is that people take metaphors literally and spin even more far-fetched stories about religion with the intent of justifying their meaningless religious practices. People who adhere to such practices are considered to be pious while those who do not follow meaningless traditions but ask questions are considered to be rebellious and are kept at a distance by their own folks!
When someone comes up with silly arguments in support of animal abuse, simply ask them to substantiate what they are saying using the Srimad Bhagavad Gita. Just ask them to show you where in the Srimad Bhagavad Gita, Krishna asked His followers to steal milk from poor cows, drink it, or kill and eat animals. .
Vegetarianism and ‘non-vegetarianism’
Most vegetarians believe they have a clean conscience because they do not consume meat. However, they also never care to go to visit dairy farms to see for themselves the pathetic condition of the bovine animals whose mammary secretion they drink. But by relying on TV ads and movies funded by major dairy, food, and medical industries to brainwash the masses into believing dairy products are good for health, they even force their children to consume dairy products.
Think about it. Is there any mammal in the world that drinks mammary milk in its adulthood? Not even cows and bulls, whose mothers’ milk humans so rightfully take and consume do such a thing! Humans are the only species to do so and more so, they consume the baby growth fluid of another species! All female mammals produce mammary milk for THEIR OWN YOUNG ONES and NOT for the young ones of other animals. And definitely not for those of another species!
Having completed 10 years of being pure vegan, after studying the subject in depth for an even longer amount of time, and after experiencing amazingly rejuvenating health benefits not only due to my vegan diet but also due to my regular workouts, I strongly advocate an animal-free diet for humans, which means no animal-derived foods whatsoever.
To go 100% VEGAN is a decision that each individual should be making for himself or herself. I am glad I made mine a decade ago.
आयुःसत्त्वबलारोग्यसुखप्रीतिविवर्धनाः |
रस्याः स्निग्धाः स्थिरा हृद्या आहाराः सात्त्विकप्रियाः || १७ ८ ||
aayuhu-sattvabalaarogya-
sukha-preetivi-vardhanaaha
rasyaaha snigdhaaha sthiraa hridyaa
aahaaraaha saattvika-priyaaha (SBG 17:08)
Foods which augment life, purity, strength, health, happiness and contentment, which are delicious, succulent, substantial and agreeable, are dear to people with the Sattva Guna.
A good starting point would be removing blinders that you might have in the form of blindly following traditions, and, refusing to be fooled by ‘Krishna organisations’ who scream at the top of their voices that Krishna loved to drink milk and eat butter.
Some organisations con the masses by saying they sell ‘ahimsa milk’!
Whatever that term means!
Take extreme care and make sure that whatever you send down your oesophagus is good for your body, mind and soul, and not that you are a dumb and brainwashed customer and guinea pig of the food, dairy, and medical industries.
Now, get this straight – The cow is its calf’s mother and no one else’s. No cow ever rang the bell of a milkman and offered her milk for human children, nor did any animal go to a slaughterhouse and commit suicide so that they could be eaten by humans who stupidly believe that animal meat is the only source of protein.
Ask any cancer patient, and they will tell you that one of the first changes they had to make in life in order to prolong their life was to GO VEGAN.
All beings are equal, and no creature is superior or inferior.
समं सर्वेषु भूतेषु तिष्ठन्तं परमेश्वरम् |
विनश्यत्स्वविनश्यन्तं यः पश्यति स पश्यति || १३ २७ ||
samam sarveshu bhooteshu
tisht-hantam parameshvaram
vinashyatsva-vinashyantam
yah pashyati sa pashyati
(SBG 13:27 or 13:28 in some editions)
Krishna says: The person who truly sees is the one who sees the Supreme Soul existing equally in all beings – the unperishing within the perishing.
A couple of posts on the subject, including an old one of mine :
Stay safe, stay healthy, have a clear conscience, and live a fulfilling life.
Stay Blessed
Jai Shri Krishna
It is quite natural to feel upset, angry or even hateful towards people who might have wronged you in the past. However, realistically speaking, if you carried such negative feelings, it will only be you whom those feelings will hurt. Whether you think, or not think, of the person who you believe wronged you, it will only be you who will undergo pain, and certainly not that person to whom your thinking will not make even the slightest difference.
Treat every experience as a great learning opportunity that makes you wiser.
For a true seeker, everyone and every situation is a source of knowledge and therefore, a teacher.
Have you read Sage Dattatreya’s Avadhuta Gita, or have you at least heard about it? It is one of the ultimate scriptures to comprehend Advaita vedanta.
Sage Dattatreya also known as Avadhuta, had 24 gurus.
Read Avadhuta Gita.
More posts on Avadhuta Gita to follow.
Stay blessed.
Jai shri Krishna
21.09.2022
Bonus Video 101
RISE ABOVE DUALITY AND SUPERSTITION – STUDY VEDANTA
I can understand the lives of people, whose forefathers had converted to foreign religions either due to fear, greed, or whatever reason. But what about those whose forefathers faced it all, stood tall, protected the Vedic Sanatana Dharma, and passed it on so that the present generation could benefit from the highest knowledge of Vedanta?
How pathetic can such a huge number of people be, to not put in at least minimal efforts to study the Srimad Bhagavad Gita, which is called the nectar of all the Upanishads, instead of becoming mental slaves of non-existent imaginary deities and of beef-eating men and women claiming to be special divine people; join cults, sects, groups and subgroups; and actually choose to suffer all through their lives! How pathetic!
Now, get this straight: If you do something, no matter how ‘religious’ or ‘pious’ you might think it is, but expect something in return, including simply ‘wanting to please ‘god”; you would only be going against the main principle of KarmaYoga:
कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन |
मा कर्मफलहेतुर्भूर्मा ते सङ्गोऽस्त्वकर्मणि || २ ४७ ||
karmaNye vaadhikaras te
maa phaleshu kadaachana
maa-karma-phala-hetur-bhuur-
maa te sango ‘stva karmaNi (SBG 2:47)
You only have the right to work, but never to claim its results. The results of your actions should never be your motive but at the same time, you should not be attached to inaction.
How miserable can people be, particularly those who consider themselves to be educated and knowledgeable, to ‘pray’ for special favours to something that does not even exist?
Please, remember that The Srimad Bhagavad Gita is a grand allegory. The Pandavas and the Kauravas are the positive and negative forces that continuously battle within one’s mind. Arjuna had Krishna as his own driver all through the war, but did he ever ask Krishna to ‘perform miracles’ and solve his problems? NO! Arjuna placed himself as a pupil of Krishna. See Shloka SBG 2:07. The moment any person, no matter m or f, positions himself or herself as an ‘Arjuna’, their ‘Krishna’ will appear and guide them through life. What I mean by ‘their ‘Krishna’ will appear’ is that their natural intellect, which has been, until then, shrouded by ignorance, ego, selfishness, and stupidity in the name of religion, misunderstood ‘shraddha’, ‘aasthaa’ or whatever, will start functioning well and help the person be open to true knowledge.
Krishna says:
अव्यक्तं व्यक्तिमापन्नं मन्यन्ते मामबुद्धयः |
परं भावमजानन्तो ममाव्ययमनुत्तमम् || ७ २४ ||
avyaktam vyakti-maapannam
manyante maam-abuddhayaha
param bhaava-majaa-nanto
mamaa-vyayaman-uttamam
(SBG 7:24)
Foolish people who do not know My formless, exalted, imperishable, and supreme nature think I assume a manifest human form.
अवजानन्ति मां मूढा मानुषीं तनुमाश्रितम् |
परं भावमजानन्तो मम भूतमहेश्वरम् || ९ ११ ||
avajaananti maam mood-haa
maanu-sheem tanum-aashritam
param bhaavam-ajaananto
mama bhoota-maheshvaram (SBG 9:11)
Foolish people, due to their lack of understanding of My higher nature as the Supreme Bhagavan of everything that exists, disregard Me when I descend in the human form.
What do the above Shlokas mean? It simply means that FOOLISH PEOPLE do not understand HIS Universal Nature because of silly beliefs that were injected into their heads through generations and generations of people who either had no idea of what they were saying or doing, or did such things deliberately in order to keep people in a state of intellectual and spiritual stupor. Puranas, which are meant to enable seekers better internalise the Supreme Truth of Vedanta are being taken literally and whole new cults are being created out of them!
Stop all the nonsensical rites and rituals you perform with your poor understanding of Vedanta believing they would ‘make ‘god’ happy’ and be helpful or useful to you; and study the Srimad Bhagavad Gita. There cannot be anything more important for you in life than something that can set your whole life straight.
Click here to look for suitable Gita resources and swear never to be pathetic or lead a pathetic life filled with fear, greed, anger, hatred, laziness, and the lack of true Vedantic Knowledge, simply because you do not care to study the Srimad Bhagavad Gita and are willing to spread the disease of pseudo-spirituality to others and to future generations.
STOP ALL STUPIDITY AND TAKE TO STUDYING KRISHNA’S TEACHINGS.
STUDY THE SRIMAD BHAGAVAD GITA.
The ‘I’ that most people think they are, is, in fact, their pseudo-self. The truth is that the Eternal SELF or the ALL-PERVADING CONSCIOUSNESS is indeed ALL-PERVADING. The lack of understanding of the TRUE ALL-PERVADING SELF, which is something that originates from one’s attachment and identification with their mortal body, is the one that causes the illusion of duality, leading to the mental delusion, which, in turn, causes pain and suffering. Attachment stems from FALSE EGO, the dualistic feeling of being separate, the lack of self-confidence, and from the fear of losing what one erroneously imagines possessing.
“Nothing unbearable shall ever happen,” is a quote from one of my revered teachers in life, Prof. B. Dashratharam. Reflect deeply over it, and you will see what great sense his timeless statement makes.
NEVER ALLOW MORTAL HUMANS AND PERISHABLE OBJECTS TO BRING YOU DOWN FROM YOUR HIGHEST STATE OF BEING THAT.
You are far bigger than what you think you are. You are the ALL-PERVADING SELF, the LIMITLESS CONSCIOUSNESS, YOU ARE THAT – TAT TVAM ASI.
Watch Shri Adi Shankaracharya’s ‘Brahmajnanavalimala’
अन्तर्ज्योतिर्बहिर्ज्योतिः प्रत्यग्ज्योतिः परात्परः ।
ज्योतिर्ज्योतिः स्वयंज्योतिरात्मज्योतिः शिवोऽस्म्यहम् ॥ २१ ॥
antarjyotirbahirjyotih pratyakjyotih paratparah
jyotirjyotih svayamjyotih Atmajyotih Sivo’smyaham…21
I am the auspicious one, the inner light and the outer light, the indwelling light, higher than the highest, the light of all lights, self-luminous, the light that is the Self. (21)
How true Mrs Sudha Murthy’s words are! She is someone I greatly admire. People have no value and respect for what they get for free.
One of my deepest wishes is to meet her someday, seek her blessings, and gain her support in distributing my latest books, The Ever-Relevant Gita: A Present-Day Rendering and Capture the Essence – The Srimad Bhagavad Gita, to young people and school students at an affordable price. These books aim to dispel the misconceptions ingrained over generations due to faulty and nonsensical myths, freeing readers from the meaningless rites and rituals imposed in the name of pseudo ‘bhakti’ and ‘religion’.
In fact, I can think of so many people who were in absolutely miserable states of mind when they first came to this site and even got to speak with me personally. I gave them chunks of my most expensive and fast-depleting asset, called ‘time on the planet’- ALL FOR FREE. Some benefited, some didn’t because they were beyond all the ‘debrainwashing’ that I tried to do , and some even called me names for not being or talking like their ‘regular bearded babas and swamies’ not realising that I teach Vedanta through the Srimad Bhagavad Gita and not some bizarre trash in the name of religion or dogma.
Indeed, Mrs Sudha Murthy is right in saying that people rarely value what comes for free, especially when it is offered by someone who seeks nothing in return but simply wishes to see them lead a happy, enriching, and fulfilling life.
The vast treasures of Vedic literature can be overwhelming, unfathomable, and highly complex for many. However, the greatest gift humankind has received is an extraordinary treatise that distills the essence of all Vedic wisdom—the Srimad Bhagavad Gita, comprising 700 Shlokas across 18 chapters.
Although it takes only three to four hours to read the entire Gita, many people lack the enthusiasm to engage with this life-changing scripture, assuming it is too deep and difficult to understand. As a result, they postpone reading it, often waiting until later in life. This is precisely where the problem lies. Each individual has only one lifetime, and time moves swiftly. Due to ignorance of the Vedic nondualistic principle of the all-pervading Brahman personified as Krishna—and the mistaken belief in a separate being called ‘God’ residing in the skies—many miss the opportunity to benefit from the highest level of Vedic knowledge, Vedanta, which the Srimad Bhagavad Gita explains in the most lucid manner.
In addition to Capture the Essence – The Srimad Bhagavad Gita, The Ever-Relevant Gita: A Present-Day Rendering offers a fresh and contemporary perspective on the timeless wisdom of the Srimad Bhagavad Gita. This book presents the profound teachings of Bhagavan Krishna in a way that resonates with modern readers, making them easy to understand and apply in everyday life. It bridges the gap between ancient philosophy and present-day challenges, helping readers navigate life with clarity, resilience, and inner strength. Whether you are new to the Gita or have studied it before, this book will provide you with deeper insights and a renewed appreciation for its eternal relevance.
The time invested in reading can transform one’s perspective on life, health, work, relationships, successes, failures, and personal goals.
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Stay blessed
Jai Shri Krishna
Master your mind and master your life. There is nothing outside your mind, anyway.
I? Me? Mine? Ego? Love? Hate? Envy? ‘My god’ vs. ‘Your god’? Babas? Swamies? Ammas? Religion? Seriously?!
When will people ever care to grow up?
The WHOLE is Indescribable, Indefinable, and Unimaginable. However, for the purpose of even attempting to understand it, Vedic scriptures use the term BRAHMAN also personified as KRISHNA.
ॐ पूर्णमदः पूर्णमिदं पूर्णात् पूर्णमुदच्यते ।
पूर्णस्य पूर्णमादाय पूर्णमेवावशिष्यते ॥
ॐ शांतिः शांतिः शांतिः ॥
Om poorna-madah poornamidam poornaat poornamudachyate
poornasya poorna maadaaya poorna mevaa-vashishyate
Om Shanti Shanti Shantihi.
The Invisible Absolute Brahman is complete, and this universe is complete. The visible complete whole comes from the Invisible, Perfect, and Complete Whole. Even when the complete visible whole is removed from the Invisible Complete Whole, the Absolute Brahman or the Complete Whole remains unchanged.
Aum, Peace, Peace, Peace.
इहैकस्थं जगत्कृत्स्नं पश्याद्य सचराचरम् |
मम देहे गुडाकेश यच्चान्यद् द्रष्टुमिच्छसि || ११ ७ ||
ihaikastham jagat-kritsnam
pashyaadya sacharaa-charam
mama dehe gudaakesha
yach-chaanyad drashtu-micchasi (SBG 11:07)
Now see before you the whole universe, including everything moving and non-moving in My Universal Form all at once. You can see whatever you wish to see and also what you may wish to see in the future, O Gudakesha (Arjuna).
NOW WATCH THIS!
Can you ever get more skeptical than the Nasadiya Sukta?
That was the Nasadiya Sukta from the Rig Veda.
Below is Shloka SBG 7:19
बहूनां जन्मनामन्ते ज्ञानवान्मां प्रपद्यते |
वासुदेवः सर्वमिति स महात्मा सुदुर्लभः || ७ १९ ||
bahoonaam janma naamante jnaana-vaan-maam prapadyate
vaasudevah sarvamiti sa mahaatmaa sudur-labhaha (SBG 7:19)
Therefore after innumerable births, the one who has perfected his or her wisdom, understanding fully My universal reality, surrenders to Me and such a soul is very rare.
Can anyone show me in the Srimad Bhagavad Gita if Krishna ever asked anyone to go to temples and pour stolen ‘baby calf growth fluid’ or bovine milk on His Vigrahas? NO! Krishna said in Shloka SBG 4:38 that there is nothing more purifying than KNOWLEDGE.
Remember that ‘god’ is not some person with a face, hands and legs, but is the personification of the infinite WHOLE.
STUDY – ASK QUESTIONS – DISCUSS – LEARN – EVOLVE
Tavamithram Sarvada 