Ready to Ditch the Rut and Reignite Your Life? Or do you still want to continue your same old boring life?
Let’s face it, life can get stagnant. We all get stuck in routines, feeling sluggish and uninspired. But what if I told you there’s a way to break free, reclaim your energy, and become a force of nature – just like me?
(McFit is the name of the gym in Germany where I train.)
Nearly 60, and I can still outwork most youngsters at the gym! I bench press 100 Kg. My secret? It’s not some magic potion (although delicious smoothies come close!). It’s attitude and a powerful lifestyle I call Vegan Guardian.
Intrigued? You should be! Vegan Guardian isn’t your typical vegan blog. It’s about transforming yourself from the inside out.
It’s about:
Unleashing Plant-Based Power: Ditch the animal products and discover a new level of vibrant health.
Awakening Your Inner Beast: Get moving! Because exercise is your body’s natural fountain of youth.
Realising Universal Oneness: Discover the peace and clarity of Vedanta philosophy.
For ten years, I’ve shared my experiences on this blog. But sometimes, inspiration needs a little nudge. That’s why I’m launching a brand-new project: Vegan Guardian!
This dedicated space is all about empowering YOU to take control of your life. It’s about feeling amazing, having boundless energy, and living life to the fullest.
Inspired by my incredible dad, a beacon of joy, and the wisdom of an ancient Tamil poet sage called Tirumoolar, who said in Tamil: “யாம் (யான்) பெற்ற இன்பம் பெறுக இவ்வையகம்” “yaam (yaan) pettra inbam peruga ivvayagam”May the Ultimate bliss received by me, be received by everyone.” What a generous statement!
Ultimate bliss isn’t some far-off dream. It’s a state of profound well-being that’s closer than you think. All you need is the will to make it yours! YEP! That is the ONLY REQUIREMENT.
Ready to embark on this exciting adventure? Head to my (OUR) new blog, Vegan Guardian, and unleash the vibrant, healthy, youthful, strong, and powerful you!
Get ready to ditch the limitations and redefine what it means to truly live.
I’ll be sharing AWESOME VEGAN RECIPES, killer workout routines, and deep dives into each pillar of the Vegan Guardian Lifestyle.
Can there be anyone who does not want to look and feel youthful and possess excellent and robust health?
Take a moment to reflect: Is it right to put dead animals or animal secretions into your mouth?
Are you ready to awaken the Vegan Guardian within? Let’s go!
Societal practices often stem from blind adherence to traditions passed down by previous generations. Many of these traditions lack logic or tangible benefits for individuals or society as a whole.
Historical Perspective: Misleading Advertisements
Have you ever considered that cigarette manufacturers used to advertise smoking as healthy in the 1930s and 1940s? You can find a post about it on this History website.
The Origin and Replication of Traditions
Traditions are typically followed under the assumption that if our elders did something, it must be right. However, it’s important to realise that every tradition, regardless of its nature, originates from the choices and actions of individuals in the past. The Srimad Bhagavad Gita also touches on this point. In Shloka 3:21 of the Srimad Bhagavad Gita, Krishna states: “When an influential person performs an action, others tend to follow and emulate it. Their actions become a standard for others.”
Breaking the Cycle: Questioning Established Practices
This cycle continues until someone has the courage to question these practices. Unfortunately, such individuals are often labelled as heretics or rebels simply because they dared to ask questions.
The Rise of Industries and Manipulation
Since the early 20th century, industries, particularly the food and medical sectors, have grown significantly. The food industry can be categorised into agriculture, dairy, and meat.
The advertising industry, born towards the end of the 19th century, experienced exponential growth with the emergence of mass communication mediums like print media, radio, television, and the postal system. These new media platforms gradually evolved into systems of mass mind manipulation used by major industries to serve their interests.
Mass killing of innocent animals soon became a full-fledged industry. Who cared what happened behind those walls? “If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian,” said Sir James Paul McCartney
Media Influence: The Acceptance of Information
In today’s world, anything printed or spoken in the media is often accepted as gospel truth. People even go to the extent of using the phrase, “I read in a book/magazine/article/report that…” to lend credibility to their statements.
Seeking Knowledge: The Wisdom of Questioning
Allow me to quote another Shloka from the Srimad Bhagavad Gita: Shloka SBG 4:34: Krishna says, “Attain knowledge by revering teachers who have realised the Truth, serve them, and ASK THEM QUESTIONS until all your doubts are resolved. The wise ones who know the Truth will impart their knowledge to you.”
My Personal Journey: Transitioning to Veganism
Ten years ago, I made the transition from vegetarianism to veganism. Since then, I have experienced a significant improvement in my health, strength, and overall well-being, thanks to this dietary shift coupled with regular exercise. What’s most gratifying is that, in my fifties, I feel fitter and stronger, as well as physically and mentally more powerful than I did in earlier decades. This journey has also brought me immense peace of mind, knowing that my body and soul remain untainted by acts of violence against animals.
Empowering Choice: Research and Informed Decision-Making
While I am neither a medical professional nor a health expert, I urge everyone to ask questions, conduct research, and make informed choices that align with their own values and the betterment of the world. Do not blindly adhere to traditions just because they were practised by your ancestors or because they are accepted social norms. Above all, do not be such gullible victims of mass brain manipulation systems.
Challenging Cultural Beliefs: The Case of Animal Milk
The title “Ma ka doodh” translates to “mother’s milk,” and it begs the question, “Whose mother?” A cow produces milk for her own calf, which grows to around 300 kg within a year. Even adult animals, including bovines, do not consume their own mother’s milk, let alone the milk of another species. Humans are the only species that do so. In India, the consumption of animal milk, which is actually stolen from them, is even sanctified under the misguided belief that it pleases the gods, which the uninformed masses blindly follow. There are some ‘Krishna organisations’ that sell ‘Ahimsa milk’, whatever that means!
Consider this: would you be willing to drink the mammary milk of a woman? I wager you wouldn’t. Isn’t it peculiar that you refuse to consume the milk of your own species, yet willingly consume the milk of a voiceless female creature that has endured a lifetime of torture? And to vegetarians who think they are morally superior to meat consumers, think again!
Conclusion
Remember that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Prioritise embracing Conscious Choices, and live the life of a Responsible Soul.
Stay blessed.
Eye-Opening Documentaries: ‘Ma ka doodh’
After the release of the American documentary film “What the Health” in 2017, I was deeply impressed by the Indian documentary film “Ma ka doodh” produced by Harsha Atmakuri in 2023. This well-crafted film features professionals sharing their knowledge and experiences.
Enlightening Film: A Call to Action
I encourage you to set aside two hours to watch this film. It is beneficial not only for you, your family, and your immediate surroundings but also for the world at large.
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 :
Tavamithram Sarvada 