What Happened to Amma?

[Guest guest]

What happened to Amma? I know a lot about what lots of other people

think about diet. To the best of my knowledge, vegetarians destroy

dairy products, beans, grains, vegetables and fruits when they eat.

Some people say that's okay because carrots, etc. don't run away and

don't want to run away. I'm not sure what carrots want, or mung

beans either. Nor am I certain that the cow instends me to have her

milk.

 

Amma said somewhere that eating meat makes a person dull minded.

Must have been Awaken Children Book 2. I always wonder how the blood

type diet works with all this. Are there no type O blood people in

India? They are supposed to have trouble digesting vegetable protein

and to do well with meat. Type A and B do well on vegetarian diet.

So says the book EAT WELL FOR YOUR TYPE.

 

Thought kshatriyas were allowed to eat meat when in battle.

 

Anyway in my opinion, the virtue of ahimsa is what's important. How

that ahimsa is lived may vary depending on what one's duty is.

Ahimsa cannot be the same for a monk as it is for a policeman or

soldier. Ammachi did say that one must look at the situation where

the decision is being made. (That was from an answer to a question

regarding abortion made by her during last summer's retreat at Rhode

Island.) Diet is one of the issues that may depend on whether a

person is retired from the world or active in the world and what

their activity is and where.

 

Spiritual ethics and spiritual lifestyle can't be rigid or else, just

as the dinosaur body has become extinct, that spirituality also will

die out when circumstances make it impossible to follow.

 

Aikya