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Dear Jan,

 

Gosh your format or the format is really messed up had to go for

miles to read your post..Jan waht you say makes no sense to me at

all..yes everything including this body is not real and of course if

you just stop eating the not real body will die and your point is..

my point simply is the idea that you can get there from here when

your already there??

Randy

 

 

, ecirada <ecirada> wrote:

>

> panamavolcan wrote:

>

> >Look this is the way I see it pure and simple there is really no

> >karma, no birth or death..there really only is what IS..the idea

that

> >eating meat will somehow retard a person progress is as bogus as

> >saying that you need to do some kind of efforting to be

Awaken..all

> >of this has to do with mind/ego maya and has nothing to do with

the

> >pure Awareness that you are..it's all a ego game that pushes one

away

> >from the truth of who they are..IMHO

> >Randy

> >

> >

> Randy, if there's no karma, birth or death,

> why not stop eating, drinking and breathing?

> That would make a discussion like this superfluous

> and leave the mind vacuous (empty).

>

> On the web there are countless sites mentioning the

> benefits of "sattvic food" like this one:

>

> http://www.sivanandadlshq.org/download/kundalini.htm

> --

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> Food plays a prominent place in Yoga-Sadhana. An aspirant should be

very

> careful

> in the selection of articles of Sattvic nature especially in the

> beginning of his Sadhana

> period. Later on when Siddhi is attained, drastic dietetic

restrictions

> can be removed.

>

> Purity of food leads to purity of mind. Sattvic food helps

meditation.

> The discipline of

> food is very very necessary for Yogic Sadhana. If the tongue is

> controlled, all the other

> Indriyas are controlled.

>

> "Ahara-suddhau sattva-suddhih, sattva-suddhau dhruva smritih;

Smriti-lambhe

> sarva-granthinam viprarnokshah--By the purity of food follows the

> purification of the

> inner nature, by the purification of the nature, memory becomes

firm and

> on strengthening

> the memory, follows the loosening of all ties and the wise get

Moksha

> thereby."

> --

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> Of course, nothing is more sattvic than stopping with eating,

drinking and

> breathing as there is no karma, birth or death ;-)

>

> Jan

>