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  • The Wise Spiritual Roots of Ahimsa in Hinduism

    The Wise Spiritual Roots of Ahimsa in Hinduism

    Hindu religion is a deep spiritual philosophy and not a religion of ritualism alone. This is why a true Hindu would always be Conscientious, Ethical, Vegan and focus on manifesting an Awakened world.

    According to Hindu philosophy, this world is a dreamworld or the Matrix, where consciousness is creating and enjoying reality crafted through the many delusions of the mind. There are three main aspects of the Self that are honourable and sacred or Divine. These are both male and female and not just a masculine Lord.

    Hindu Trinity (Three Aspects of the One Multidimensional Self) or The Three Wise Men/ Women

    Brahma/ Saraswati (Creator)
    Aham Brahmasmi, is a realisation that we create our own reality as Brahma (the creator who is within). By going within in meditation, through knowledge, Saraswati or stream of consciousness) channelled through mindfulness we can realise who we are. We start seeing how reality is generated through our mind and changes with our thought processes magically.

    Vishnu/ Laxmi (Dreamer)
    Vishnu is the name given to the dreamer of the Matrix or Samsara, a world which is illusion. He or She takes several forms or Avatars with focus on ethics and with magical powers to destroy evil and keep the dream healthy and positive. Krishna was noted as the most recent Avatar (incarnate manifestation) of our One Higher Self. His core teaching is of Karma (Right Action), with Ahimsa or Non violent behaviour being a basic component of Sattvik (truth based) lifestyle, beliefs, and yoga as the key to Dharma (religion as a sense of moral behaviour) in order to deliver us from evil.

    Shiva/ Shakti (Awakener)
    Shiva is the awakened form of the higher Self or Divine who is omnipresent as our consciousness that shapes our universe through Energy or Shakti, and can destroy the dreamworld and help us in awakening. He brings down the sacred river Ganga (purifier of sins) to cleanse the evil of ignorance and demolish sinful behaviour and protect others from poisons of evil while remaining unharmed due to highest levels of consciousness.

    But while we live in a dreamworld there is tremendous suffering and stress here, especially to the weak, exploited, and vulnerable beings on earth, and earth is Laxmi, the spirit of beings who are reaching out to God or Goddess for help.

    But where is He or She?

    In a Dream, where is the dreamer?

    It is believed that Vishnu takes many forms in every age, including several Earthly forms of animals such as fish, tortoise, boar and human, to save Earth, from Demons or Asuras who are interested in exploitation, immorality, and abuse of the earth and bring about catastrophe, destruction, violence and abuse.

    There are four main ages of Reality

    The Four Yugas Cycle

    *Satya-yug or the Age of Truth where majority of humans are good, ruling over and controlling evil.

    *Treta-Yug, the time period when three quarters are good but the rest evil.

    *Dwapar-yug when half is good and half evil.

    *Kali-yug, with majority being evil as prophesied by Krishna who would like to reappear as Kaalki who ends the Kali-yug (dark age of untruth or unconsciousness in the Matrix), where we exist now.

    Who is Kali, of Kali yug? It is not goddess Maha Kali. It is a dark demon Kali who is pictured with a sword and tongue out, keen on Slaughter and destruction of poor and innocent beings and causing all forms of global diseases, epidemics, violence, climate change, greed, corruption, and end of the world.

    The main cause of all this is Animal Farming which occupies over 80 percent of global farmland, giving majority of crops to farmed animals who are bred to be abused and killed unnecessarily to deliver only 18 percent of our calories and causing poverty, hunger, land shortage, food shortage, draughts, floods, tornadoes, apocalypse, water shortage, greenhouse emissions, deforestation of millions of trees daily, and tremendous unnecessarily cruelty and suffering.

    While Hindus are generally against cruelty and slaughter, and avoid meat or eggs, some do not care, but yet most temples avoid animal meat and dairy (except for those who conduct violent sacrifices which are usually banned and opposed by the majority).

    I would like to discuss why it is necessary to also avoid Dairy in temples and in daily life, besides other animal products such as animal meat, chicken, fish, eggs, honey, leather, animal skin drums, wool, silk and other forms of abuse such as horse riding, elephant chaining, bull festival, use of animals in cosmetics, personal care products, cleaning products, medical science, entertainment or sports.

    1) Ahimsa versus Himsa/ Hinsa

    Please note in the past we were not aware of Dairy cruelty. It is not Ahmisa to use Dairy. Dairy is Hinsa. Hinsa means Violence or Abuse.

    Dairy abuses cows and goats, buffaloes, yak, other Dairy cattle by forcing them to be impregnated via artificial insemination in a graphic way. It then abuses babies by denying them milk, keeping them away and in most cases killing them on birth or a few weeks after feeding them soya while greedily taking away milk meant for baby and giving them to humans who do NOT need it.

    2. Satvik versus Tamasic

    Only infants need milk and that too from own mum. Please note Dairy is Tamsic based on ignorance and greed. Tamas means ignorance. It is against the teachings of Krishna.

    3. Dharma versus Dharma

    Dairy is Adharma not Dharma. Adharma means immorality or lack of righteous conduct, while Dharma is moral behaviour, with a sense of duty.
    It is against Hindu values or Sanatan Dharma (our eternal duty) to be cruel and partake in violence.

    4. Cow Care versus Cow Slaughter

    After a very shortened life span due to diseases, exploitation and milking, mastitis infections and huge udders caused by greedy Dairy industry that cripples them, cows give up and die or are lined in slaughterhouses to walk to their cruel graphic murder for beef and leather industries which is an offshoot of Dairy. What sort of a Hindu could tolerate cow slaughter, you would think? Sadly some Hindus latch on to Dairy, averse to any new ideology by being stuck to old habits inspite of being advised about the horrific cruelty of Dairy industry. Even in the best of farms such as high welfare organic free range farms or Iskcon farms, it is impossible to continue consuming dairy by billions of humans as there is no place to breed and house so many cattle, and they are invariably abandoned, sold, transported, and slaughtered.

    5. Unscientific and Unnatural

    When we humans are natural frugivores from apes and no specie of animals ever consumes milk from another species, why do we exploit, harm and control the life of poor cows and other cattle unnecessarily for something non essential? It is unscientific and unspiritual as well as unmistakably cruel to use or promote Dairy.

    6. Purity versus Unhygenic Bodily Secretion

    Not only that Dairy is terribly unhygenic, after all it is a body fluid and secretion made of the blood and fluid of the mother’s body, with urinary and fecal contamination, and often laced with antibiotics due to which we get antibiotic resistance. It contains animal hormones as well as the stress in the animal releases toxins into the product of severe abuse and a life of sorrow. The vitamin b12 in animal products comes from supplements given to or injected into animals when we can get all nutrients easily from plant based sources.

    7. Disease Healing versus Disease Causing

    Most humans are Dairy intolerant and also we all regardless of sensitivities, do suffer Diabetes due to it and Heart diseases, Cancer, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Depression, Varicose veins, Asthma, Autism and several diseases that are reduced by elimination of Dairy.

    8. God’s Will versus UnGodly Behaviour

    Do you think that if there really is a God, Goddess or Higher Consciousness, they are interested in humans worshipping idols in temples over and above the pain and trauma of the billions of poor victims who are heartbroken and tortured in slaughterhouses due to Dairy, Animal Meat and other Animal Products and Farming?

    There is no good in a society made just for human ego, human prosperity and human entertainment, if thousands of animals of other species are standing in slaughter line every second.

    Infact those promoting Dairy, Animal Meat, Eggs, Honey, Leather, Wool, and anything involving Forced Impregnation and Slaughter are Asura or Evil Demonic entities and inhuman, not Godly and certainly not Devotees of Ram, Krishna, Kalki or Maa.

    9. The Solid Action to be Taken

    Kindly ban Dairy from your rituals, lifestyle, and discourses and teach truth. Kindly watch leading documentaries such as Dairy is Scary, The Land of Ahimsa, Maa Ka Doodh and Unholy Cattle of India free on YouTube as urgently as possible.

    Kindly be sensitive to ethics, health needs, and different dietary requirements and intolerances and promote Veganism as a basic foundation of Ahimsa.

    10. Plant Based Alternatives

    When every alternative is present in the form of plant based milk, tofu paneer, plant based curd, plant based cheese, plant based cream, and they taste the same, there is no justification of not using them instead of Dairy.

    11. Sensitivity to Vegan Community Members

    Sadly, some Hindus deliberately add Ghee, instead of plant based oil, Dairy instead of plant based milk or plant based cream or plant based yogurt in food, even after being requested to use plant based substitutes. They seem to show no empathy, or respect for Vegan diets, sensitivity to Vegan members or Vegan values and any interest in adherence to principles of Non Violence.

    12. Sensitivity to Emotions

    You would expect all humans to be highly emotional and alarmed at hearing about violence and cruelty of Dairy but they seem to take no interest and do not respect the person giving them vital knowledge, and the immense suffering of the animals killed and abused for them. This is hurtful to those of us who are sensitive and emotionally sound. It is normal to feel upset about abuse and violence. It is not normal to ignore it, or condone it, and partake in it.

    13. Respect to Activists and Educators
    Many humans seem unable to pay any attention especially if the person educating them is an unknown person, not rich or famous, not a person from a high office in society or if activists are females, as some humans seem to only respect male gurus and swamis dressed in turbans and robes, quoting scriptures.

    14. Respect Depth of Philosophy
    Many Hindus in kali-yug seem to be interested in rituals, taste, pleasure, religious old fashioned rites, decorating and worshipping of idols, prayers to idols, socialising with and pleasing human society members, catering to their ego, and on their cultural pride. Even in satsanga the focus is on humans being blissful and connected to Imaginary Visualised Forms (artistic impressions) of various gods or Goddesses rather than in actual behaviour and values of everyday life. This needs to change. Hindu cosmology is a deep realisation that our mind is a creator and we can definitely cultivate good habits to replace untruths, Delusions and Grandeur and be established in kindness, virtuous behaviour and generosity towards all beings, not just human beings. When we worship forms of Divine as earth Goddess, Hanuman or monkey God, Ganesh or elephant god, fish, tortoise, boar and human avatars as equal, then Hinduism can never be a speciesism based philosophy. It needs to be based on the soul of universe and not just human faces and human greed or gluttony.

    Kindly do not wait for a mythological God from outside to pull you out of the Matrix or awaken the world. Realize the truth by yourself and 🙏 take immediate action right now by yourself by watching and sharing the below videos and this article as widely as possible.

    The Land of Ahimsa
    Maa Ka Doodh (Mother’s Milk)
    Short Video: Unholy Cattle of India

  • Do Plants Suffer?

    ‘Do Plants Suffer?’, is a common worry and preoccupation of spiritual and kind hearted individuals who are also Vegan. Sadly it is also a reason for many cruel people to remain non vegan and unable to empathise with the animal who clearly values his or her life and thrashes about in pain. Humans believe the ‘humane slaughter’ lie as if the animals are euthanized under anesthesia in slaughterhouseas. (Kindly watch Dominion documentary online to know the truth).

    If the videos of Slaughter or Animal Farming makes you uncomfortable, imagine how the animal to be slaughtered feels?

    I normally feel the physical pain of others when I am conducting a reading and healing session, and on most occasions I am able to heal the pain or disease through my body as a highly attuned reiki healer and medium. Recently a Vegan woman online was arguing with me that plants are also sentient. I know why.

    There are a few articles on the internet on plant sensitivity. Appx. 9 to 10 years ago after relocation to UK l, I was reading up on Jagdish Chandra Bose’s research on how plants feel pain and ’emotions’ while writing my Wiccan book. I was afraid of even plucking out harmful Weeds such as deadly nightshades at times due to my extreme Wiccan ethics of Non Harming or Ahimsa much to the annoyance of my landlady who was showing me the garden and asked me to remove those poisonous Weeds out brutally.

    I gathered up courage and started digging the soil, trimming bushes, weeding, planting new sapling, seeds and bulbs, and honestly as a strong Empath I did not feel great pain or suffering. Infact I enjoyed it.

    An Animal Rising truck action in 2022 (previously Animal Rebellion)

    I figured that the main reason why many people think Plants feel pain and life of plants is of similar value as life of animals is that they do not have gardens at home or allotments to grow food in. E.g. in India most of us overthink and philosophies on Jain, Hindu and western philosophical points of views or karma and worry about plant life a lot, but we live in small flats, we do not have large enough gardens and out of touch with earth.

    If we were to grow potatoes ourselves, it becomes clear that they are meant to be eaten up once they are ready. Leaving them in the soil will make them useless and rot in wet soil. Spinach will bolt up and dry out to seeds unless you keep cutting and eating them, which is how they grow back better. Turnips will decompose and be eaten by slugs as they get ripe and ready popping upwards in soil. Ginger, Rhubard and many roots propagate even if cut and scattered to bits. Roots, shoots, fruits, beans, all need to be eaten by animals and we can grow more. You can save up some seeds to replant, and consume some, or even leave some plants for wildlife.

    Jainism belief in not even eating a potato or turnip sounds pretty irrational to me because I can feel the potatoes and turnip wanting to be dug out when ripe.

    The only other option if you are very sympathetic to plant pain and against animal agriculture is to live off the woods in forests and forage on plants like other wild animals do, like chimps or orangutans, who are your closest relatives.

    Eating animals or breeding them forcibly for milk or eggs is simply not human behavior. And certainly not for empaths.

    There is no excuse for graphic violence when a Vegan life is possible and nutrionally healthier.
  • 9 Contradictory Statements by Ethical Experts versus Vegan Gurus

    9 Contradictory Statements by Ethical Experts versus Vegan Gurus

    Although Ahimsa is a sankrit term for non-violence adopted by some verbally, it is rarely practiced by humans in actuality. Neither do most Jains collectively speak against evil dairy or refuse to altogether consume its products, even after learning all about its violent rape and abuse of cows, calves and bulls, nor do most Hindus and Buddhists who talk about Ahimsa practice veganism and plenty of them are non-vegetarian. With veganism becoming popular and with the consisted efforts of Veganuary that is again in feature this month, we have of course all been enlightened on the way consuming animal farmed products directly causes horrific suffering.

    The following geniuses and masters who are international luminaries have at times verbally advocated compassion and equality of all beings, but do they always seem to practice the same ethics they preach?

    SCIENTICE GURUS AND RATIONALISTS

    1. Richard Dawkins

    Celebrated pioneer of evolution and ethology, famous for alleged anti-semitic sentiments, maintains that other animals feel more intense pain than humans as explained here and promotes veganism. He also also speaks of lab meat of animals and human meat. Yet he was not vegan after all these years of knowledge saying he is trying to be vegetarian but eats meat outside home.

    2. Jane Goodall

    World famous global researcher, ethologist and primatologist Jane Goodall while advocating veganism, promoting PETA campaigns is clear that coronavirus happened due to lack of respect for animals in this Plant Based news article. However she seemed to like rennet from murdered baby calves too much to go vegan as per her reditt interview on Ask Me Anything quoted here describing a love of cheese. In another news feature she insisted that she is virually vegan ay home but finds it difficult on the road and is not vegan but plant based and clearly calls herself vegetarian not vegan in the following clip.

    1. David Attenborough

    The man behind the very acclaimed documentary Life on Our Planet who promoted love for nature and advocated diet change is not vegan himself and has quoted in a recent interview “I do eat cheese, I have to say, and I eat fish.” He admits he is not even vegetarian and believes we are biologically evolved to ‘eat everything’ in his own words in the following interview clip:

    1. Neil DeGrasse Tyson

    The luminary asrophysicists who has been captivating audiences has been reported in a page to have tweeted that cows are machines invented by humans to convert grass to steak and you can listen to this statement in his own voice in the clip below with audience responding with resounding claps loud cheers and laughter, as he went to justify that instead of plant based diet we should find another way to physically remove CO2.


    Phew, that was disgusting, but scientists usually rely on knowledge instead of heart based conscience. But what about voices of some very illustrious saints, masters and world renowned spiritual experts.

    SPIRITUAL GURUS AND RENOWNED EXPERTS

    1. Louise Hay
      A leading figure behind the popularity of new age spirituality including planetary compassion and love shared her favourite chicken and salmon recipes and probably refused to understand ethics and morality of animal exploitation as explained in her facebook recipes to us ‘dear ones’. A favourite recipe video shared below displays the headless body of a brutally murdered bird on her kitchen tabletop which she and her authors proudly advertised is an ‘organic pasture fed locally murdered’ chicken and ‘very healthy’ as a dead bird could be. The way they spiritually ‘massage’ the brutally killed chicken saying ‘we love you more when you are cooked’ is nothing but horrible, all to promote a book ‘Loving Yourself to Great Health’.

    6. Sadhguru
    Well known turbaned guru featured in media the world over to promote chakra meditation and teaching not to eat meat, he claims in one of his best known speeches that cows should be ’employed’ for milking because this is a human world and there is no place for cows to be except on farms. He believes that if they are not exploited for milking they will have to be slaughtered immediately and eaten up (thereby completely ignoring the lack of ethics and prevelance of rape in dairy and displaying sheer ignorance of animal farming secrets). He has also seems to believe as per another video linked here that it is best to eat fish as it is a ‘simpler animal’ explaining that less evolved animals have poorer ‘memory codes’ compared to mammals, who are more complex and ‘closer to you’ and thus completely ignores sentience of fish.

    7. Eckhart Tolle

    In the interview clipped below Eckhart Tolle clearly does not promote vegan sentiments, infact he makes fun of the concept and wrongly quotes that Hitler was vegetarian, and avoids the main question which was Ahimsa by saying that he listens to his body when he goes to supermarkets to buy foods and buys whatever ‘body opens up to’.

    8. Dalai Lama

    One would expect the leading proponent of Buddhism to care about animals and to condemn rape and exploitation of animals, however he seems to consume meat regularly and of course dairy including ‘mare’s milk’ and ‘yak tea’. It appears according to this source that he gave up meat temporarily in India but continued consuming dairy, developed hepatitis B infection and was strongly asked to resume eating meat by his physicians. Recently he chose to be a verbal ambassador for world animal day encouraging plant based diet for environment.

    9. Mooji

    The famous speaker and guru has been criticised by others for controlling minds and converting vegetarians to non-vegetarian by his coercive brainwashing methods in a medium feature. In the following QandA session he explaines to a follower why she should not feel sad for animals while diverting attention to humans who suffer so much due to their own ‘projections’, claiming injured animals are enjoying existence and to not volunteer in a sanctuary but to continue to listen to his satsang, insisting that being vegetarian or non vegetarian has nothing to do with awakening. He claims that it is only a light of ‘knowledge’ from Buddha that is worthy, not deeds of compassion.

    There maybe many others for instance,

    Leaving behind the ordinary, there are also inspiring examples such as the following spiritual masters:

    Deepak Chopra: The renowned author who published recipe books featuring ‘consumption of every type of taste’ including dead salmon and chicken in the past, patiently says he is a vegetarian since the last few years due to his awareness of animal suffering owing to the way meat was manufactured, and aspiring to go vegan’.

    Osho:

    Has sternly stated that non-vegetarianism is just like cannibalism and is inhumane. He has also explained that until humans continue to consume animal products including cow’s milk, we will not rise above sexual and sensual tendencies as cow’s milk is for the cow’s infant and taken through sexualisation of bulls leading to their cruel slaughter as explained in his discourse featured in the vegan publication.

    Thich Nhat Hanh:

    The famous Buddhist monk and poet speaks about the importance of compassion and need to focus on reducing the suffering of animals by watching videos that expose animal farming secrets.

    Unlike some of the bad examples you can of course join the few who are morally consistent and Go Vegan today, if you are not already one, and encourage other to do so by trying Veganuary. It does not take any time or a great amount of effort as vegan options are too many to count. All you need is simply an understanding that animal farming is based on heinous crimes of rape, enslavement and murder so that you do not want to have any hand in evil. Please inspire others to be morally consistent with their beliefs in ahimsa instead of merely following ignorant masses. Let us no longer be victims of evil animal farming conglomerates and archaic systems of spiritual and scientific confusions that are no longer valid.

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