Guest guest Posted August 16, 2004 Report Share Posted August 16, 2004 Amritapuri Journal 10 August, 2004 During the question and answer session, a devotee asked Amma about the importance of eating vegetarian food. Amma said that She really encourages brahmacharis to eat vegetarian food. She pointed out that if there are 7 billion people on earth, and just half of them eat 50 grams of meat every day, 3.5 million cows would have to be killed every day. If pigs are included in the equation, or if some people eat more than 50 grams, the number of animals killed will be even more. She said that some may say that a vegetable also has life. Amma said it's true, but the degree of manifestation is different. In the same way, Amma said that killing an egg is different than killing a chicken. Then Amma posed a question to the ashram residents: Is the mind in the body, or is the body in the mind? Amma said that the ashramites could argue either way. After different residents presented their viewpoint, Amma said that while psychologists say that the mind is in the body, Vedanta (the Indian philosophy of nondualism) has a different viewpoint. For example, Amma said that if we take an incense stick and move it rapidly in a circle it looks like a ring of fire. Even though we see it as a sunrise or sunset, the sun is not really rising or falling. Even though we see the moon as waxing and waning, nothing really happens to the moon. So we cannot assume that whatever we see or perceive is the truth. In the evening, Amma sang "Ananda Janani" in Bengali. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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