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Never eat meat so you become pure

Maintaining purity in life and diet is essential for spiritual progress.

You are pure people, but some are not. It is like walking in a nice place and suddenly stepping on a needle; something impure enters. When you gather here, you come from your homes. Eating pure food at home is very good. Giving this to your children is important; do not let them eat meat. Some people think they do nothing wrong, but then they go with their children and parents, and their purity goes down. You must look very, very pure. If you go with friends and they offer something, do not take it at all. This is Kali Yuga, a time of blackness. People wear black dress, always black. But black is okay; it is not that you must be completely black or white. Be as you are, but think carefully. Do not be completely black. In India, many people are also down, eating meat. Not all, but some. Your goal should be pure. When your dress is black, you go and work. But do not be like that always. When visiting friends, you must say you cannot touch that food. There was a pure disciple in Vienna who has died. You have everything very nice. Be good.

"Your goal should be pure, it should be the pure goal."

"When the heart is pure, then everything is pure."

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

How was today? Very good. I was doing some work, what is to be done, also in India, so I have to do something, but I was very good and I was very happy, all of it, yes. It is like this, you know, you are all very, very pure people. Maybe some are not, yes. But it is very, very, if you can call yourself like this, no mean and no meat, and this and that. And if you are saying that you don’t know what you are doing, that is not good, very not good. Because I am giving you very, very much, always, always, I am coming from all countries, but with you all mostly. How are you? And I know that you are very good, but maybe some are not doing it. Then it is like this, that we are walking with our foot, with very nice here, and some, it’s like when you go here, everything is in order, and suddenly you step on a needle. I went here, for example, it’s very nice here, but suddenly there will be a needle. Yeah, so something like this will get inside. And other people will say, "Oh, what happened? What happened with you? What happened with him?" And we take out, and we are... So it is when we are coming here, and you know that you are coming from a very, very distant place where you are. So when we get together here, you will come here from the places where you live. ...and in their house, eat there also, that was very, very pure. And doing it at home, our house, eating good and this, and we are making our, what we are doing, very good. We will be good further. And it is very, very good that you are giving to your children. And that your children don’t ask you to eat meat and this. So, I know some people have, okay, I am, and other children, you are, eating and this. Has not very much like this. And that is your sister, or this or that, and you are telling, "Eating this," but you don’t say no, but he’s giving them; he’s in the hands. That is not good, very not good. There are some people that are always in their house, thinking, "I will not do anything, and not anything, and not anything." But now again, he has gone with the children and parents. So, what hope can I give you? I give you more and more, but again it’s gone down like this. So this is that you should now look very, very pure, pure and pure. And some people, there was sometimes with his mother, and that you were not giving others, and this and that. And where is immediately that your children, they go up and they will eat, and this and that. What is your child? What can his child do? So it means that you are not proper. Yes, that is that. So I know it is going inside. And that is eating a little bit with the mouth. And that will be, again, there is not good. Yes. That we cannot bring you to God is what we do. Yes. So, if you go somewhere with some friends, and okay, they give something, okay, something more, something little, not at all, not at all. So, I know many people that are already very good, and then you go like this side. Then you will be very great and very good, if you are. This is a Kali Yuga now, and you know what is a Kali Yuga. And in Kali Yuga, it is all black. All have always your dress and everything. You see men only black. Go and look in your room, and when you go from here, you draw it like this, and you are going. This is the black, black, black—either black or white. So where will I come there? And so I see very, very much. Always I am looking: many people, men, all black, black dress. Also, women. So many, many times they go like this in the night. And they are going in the evening sometimes, and they are all in black dress. Also black, and there is no black. Anything pure? You see, so if you want, then be always as you are. Your dress, yeah, they will not tell you about, "Take my white." We should know that we will be like this, pure Swāmīs or others. Want anybody white or something? Let it be like you are, okay? She is OK, she is OK, she is OK. So, think very carefully about how it is. So we are on black, we are in the black. It is okay, something you have little, something okay, black, a little bit something. But not like this, completely. So you see that in your garden here, how they have their color. So, how are they very beautiful? So, like this, all the leaves go down. So, this is that. I don’t always tell, okay? Okay, they are okay, but it is one and a half. It is. So then you are standing on one of them, like this. Neither are you black, nor on the other side. It will be inside. So don’t think, okay, I know, you know, how many years I am in this country, this, like, that. And how that all, many in that many countries, they’re also, when pure they are, then they will do like this. Like this. So please, it is you. I give you, I take you, everything. So, okay, it is one of your family. It’s not. They are eating, okay. But you are not taking this. Only I am in my house. And that will not teach something like this. You should be very nice, very good. Yeah, then it’s very good. Otherwise, always, always, it is something fire gone out. I did not tell you today like this. I didn’t tell you too much, too much, because of that. But now I have seen that even in India, many people are down. Yeah, you see that in India, there are here also, there are many good black or this and like this, but they are eating meat. And, of course, not all; there are some who don’t eat. They come in the morning, they eat, and one is his wife; she is standing, she is his wife. He eats, and then she comes in about in his there, in the house, if it is otherwise in the house, and gives him something very good, this and that and this. And she told her husband, this and that: "When my children are also very pure, he is also pure, his mother is very pure." And this we will hear. We are all one inside. I will not tell you here. I will not tell you to him, or him, or to him. I will not tell you. But I tell you, everybody. So, that is, I tell you very much, otherwise, okay, I am always very good for you, always, always. But I would like very much that your goal should be pure, it should be the pure goal. When our dress is black, everything, Then we go and work very well and come out. So this is there, in it. Black is okay. Black is everything, but not like that. And you see evening, or evening and night, all the times this, like this and this and that. And we go to some friends, and we are going to the friends, and you are only, only, then you will say, "Sorry, I’m not eating." I am your good friend, I am everything, all, but I cannot touch that. There is one Indian person in Vienna. There is one Indian who is in Vienna. He has a shop there. Now he died, and his family, only one or two were touched. Otherwise, he and they are all very pure. And now he’s died. More than how many thousand? Yeah. Thousand. Thousand. Very, very long. One and some. Yeah. And he’s my disciple. Yes. And I was there. So like this, many people in this country, there are many, many who know eating like this and like this. They don’t know me. But some people are there who don’t know how it is very good. So you have everything very nice. And you see that his voice was half, so that he made very nice, and when he’s coming here, very pure, maybe he can bring something black and come out here. But he knows how, he said, to make everything good. So this is what I tell you more, otherwise I did not tell so much. What do you tell something? It is not the first time that Svāmījī talks about eating meat or not eating meat. And of course, it is a huge topic and a very important subject. And I had just two thoughts in connection with this topic. And one was that I told in the summer in Vape that many people all over the world are actually becoming more and more vegetarian since two years back, two years ago. There are two news in connection with this, and one is that there was a big project, it is called the China project, that was for more than 20 years they were measuring the eating habits and diet of Chinese people. And in China, it is published. It is called the China Project, this book. They were measuring millions of people, actually. And they found out that because of this urbanization and industrialization, they went from a natural diet toward this civilized diet. Especially in big towns, big cities, they became like Westerners. Eating too much meat, too many refined things, sugar, flour, whatever. And it was a longitudinal study, lasting many, many years, decades. And they showed that these changes are really hitting people in the diet, what they changed. So it was shown or confirmed that it really has a big impact on people, that change in diet. And one result was that all the cancers, all the inflammatory diseases, and many diseases in connection with eating meat, they just increased quite a lot. And the good news is that since the leader of this project could see all these results over the years, The other thing is that unfortunately all over the world it is spreading, being vegetarian. And unfortunately, we can see the tendency that in India, the number of vegetarians is decreasing. Last few years, yes, because of industrialization or urbanization, so this is the problem. Western style of life. So these are the facts, basically. And let me tell something different, something else, and that’s another topic that is in connection with psychology, with my field. And Gurudev is telling many times, "Don’t eat meat, be a human," and it is quite much in connection. And Gurudev often tells us, "Don’t eat meat, and be..." Human, and that is something that is related to each other. It is actually a kind of quality in life. And you can see it in the body, actually, and in your nerve system. Being a human means that you don’t utilize those parts of your brain that are connected at a little bit lower level than the human level. It means that this type of, let’s say, emotional part of the brain, the limbic system, has the capacity for learning, has the capacity for emotions, and it is a complex phenomenon already. Complex phenomenon, but it belongs mostly to mammals, because they can learn, they can utilize this part of the brain, and actually we are using it quite much, too much, all. And this part of the brain, if it It is connected to the human part of the brain, let’s say the human part, all is human, of course, but as a function, it is much more humanistic, that this part we use, it is the frontal lobe. And when we just disconnect, more or less—not completely, of course, but more or less—we disconnect from this human part of our brain, we are dropped down to this mammal brain, let’s say, or this emotional brain, the limbic system. And I just checked the literature, the scientific literature on Google Scholar, and I found some very interesting data. And it was one article, that was a review article, that was telling about many measurements about certain personality disorders. It was a reviewed professional article about certain disorders. As usual, it is much thinner. It means that we are disconnected from this part of the brain, a little, and we are dropped down one level more, a level down. And in that level, you behave as a, you know, dogs can also learn. You might remember Pavlov from your studies. And when we don’t utilize this part of the brain, we just disconnect from the ethical and moral principles. We have much less empathy toward others. We don’t plan for longer times. Only in the situation, we try to solve what we did. Actually, we were not thinking too much, but automatically we were doing something. And it means that this quality, this human quality, it is just switched off, more or less. So, as Svāmījī always tells, being a human means it has the physiology actually behind it. And it has the quality. Being a human has a quality, and being not just close to being a human, it has a different quality, quite much. And of course, when you feed yourself with meat and this, it is quite much in connection with this kind of level, this kind of quality, lower level, not human level. For example, in such cases when you have this personality disorder, then you tend to be using not your instincts, but your automatism for survival. And, of course, these things come from traumas, from bad impressions, from bad experiences in your life. And from your bad saṃskāras, actually. But these things block you from switching up for this human part. And because of the trauma, you feel exposed to others’ aggression, to others hurting you, to feeling yourself lonely. And, of course, when you feel these things from your traumas from your childhood, then you have this instinct for survival. And you learn quite early in your life that life is like this: "I will defend myself, I will also be the boss." This is lower quality, actually. No empathy, no future planning, just very, very short-term, and such things. Your ethics and morals are not so developed. It is visible, it is physiology also, it is the human quality, which Svāmījī is always telling. And our duty is to nourish this type of higher quality, and we should reach this type of level. And finally, we have all the tools for this. Meditation, especially our meditation, self-inquiry meditation, is just something great. Especially when you do it properly under the guidance of a proper guide. And also we have the prāṇāyāmas, especially the kumbhakas, the retention of the breath. That creates inner structure in energy, in personality, and then, in one moment, you can switch on. So, that’s our path, I think. Thank you for the opportunity, Svāmījī. There are so many, but one is here. This means it is scientifically explained. Yeah, so I can tell so many, but at least one should be good. I can tell you a little bit. Look. Huh? Who is it? Oh, hey, who is it? It’s not him, is it? Hello. Thank you very much. You spoke very well. Would you, anybody... I would like to say one more thing. Our dear Dhyānapūrījī very scientifically explained, "Sit down here, no, sit, sit, make it comfortable." And when he explained like this, not everybody can understand. We’re not so learned and studied as to understand the functions of the brain. The subject is to eat no meat, no fish, and no eggs. And I remember one sentence of our Guru Mahāprabhujī, of our Masters, Mahāprabhujī or Gurujī said, "When the heart is pure, then everything is pure." And yesterday Svāmījī said one sentence, that even some animals, they are human, more human than the human. They look like animals, but they are not animals. And this we know by ourselves, and they are vegetarian. Many of the animals are vegetarians, and they would not eat what we are eating. They would not eat this. And so, also many, many years ago, Svāmījī was talking at the conference of the World Peace Summit, Śrī Svāmī Madhavānandajī Summit, to eat vegetarian for the climate change. I don’t have the facts now, but there are facts about how and why we should not eat meat for this climate change. At that time, everybody was looking, "What has this subject to do with this?" But now people are awakening, but it’s very late. And it’s not enough that we don’t eat meat; we should also inspire others. And explain why not. People don’t want to cook anymore. We drove to the city. Yesterday, or the day before yesterday, I saw again there are many on the bike, they’re delivering their food. And I was, people are not cooking anymore. They don’t use time for cooking and think it is a waste of time. So we have to inspire also how to cook and what to eat. Like Svāmījī said, to sit together with the family and eat together. At least once a day. Then we come again together to the social contacts and go away from the online. To thank you very much. This was not so scientific. But with the heart, we should know why to. Nobody wants to die. How the animals are kept and killed. This is cruelty. This is not human. Even animals do not do this. Only a human can do this. A human who is not a human. Thank you. Thank you. Anybody? Mohan Purī was a vegetarian four years before me. Mohan Purī became vegetarian four years before I became vegetarian. And he tried and tried for me to stop eating meat, but he wasn’t successful. At that time, I already knew Svāmījī for one year, and I was really thinking about it more and more. At one lecture in Brno, Svāmījī said how happy the fish is that the man on the hook is giving something that is so precious. And Svāmījī at one lecture in Brno said that the fish is so happy because she gets the food from the person that is trying to catch her. And then the person actually takes her out and kills her. And since that moment, I have never had any piece of meat or fish. But I really used to love eating fish. And there was our company party, and one month after I turned vegetarian, they had sandwiches. I suspected that they might be with fish pâté, but my taste prevailed over my heart, and the sandwich wasn’t good at all. It was spoiled, and my colleague, who was not vegetarian... Who was eating meat, so she said, "We’re eating some corpse," and I realized that I failed. At that moment, I actually failed, so I got it back immediately. Thank you, Svāmījī. I think we can also go more into the science of yoga. That is what our Viśvagurujī is teaching us all the time. To go into the level of our kośas and to prāṇa. When we come to Viśvagurujī, we learn about the God science of consciousness, to be self-realized, God-realized. We read this in Viśvagurujī’s books. And I remember when I was reading this, or listening to lectures for the first time, it was so great. And also, to get inside, understanding what is self-realization. And also the word God-realization. So big, so immense. And only the word, I have not the feeling at once of what that meaning is. This is an inner wisdom, an inner understanding of how it can open, how it can come. This is our way, what Viśvagurujī is teaching us since 50 years. For this, we need pure prāṇa. Prāṇa is consciousness. And the prāṇa connects our material body to consciousness. And how to become pure. So the first level is our Annamaya Kośa, our physical body. And there we need pure nutrition. That is a start. And the first, when we come to Viśvagurujī, our consciousness is covered so much, we even don’t feel so good what body movement or āsanas are doing. But by time, step by step, it will open. When we follow these rules, and that starts with the food. When the food is pure, then my body will become pure. And that means this pure prāṇa of plants, fruits, and seeds, because when animals, they are also with a consciousness and they have their behaviors, and when we eat that, we will get that quality. And we know the level of animal vibration is under our hips. So we will behave like animals then. Maybe cruel, not so many feelings and so. And it’s so beautiful to know how we can change. And it will come by doing. Practice of āsanas, prāṇāyāma, mantra, meditation. And when I do it every day, more and more, I can understand what I am doing. Because with food and practicing all this, my prāṇa will be more clear. It is all connected. So when I don’t stop eating meat, my consciousness will not become clear, and I cannot really understand what I am doing. Yes, this I have to believe, my Master. And when I am doing it, it will come. More and more. This is the beginning with the food. For us, as yogīs, what we want is to realize ourselves. Śrīdīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Cech. Viśva Guru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Paramaṃ Svāmī Maheśvarānandajī Gurudeva Kī Cech. Everything is beautiful, everything is scientific, everything is good for our life, but I would like to say something also practical. Yes, thank you. Yes. I don’t, I am, I am not. Yeah, yes, my, thanks. I lived almost half of my life in communist Czechoslovakia. There were good things, perhaps better than now. But what I never liked, and what makes me dislike that regime still, is that it was based on a lie. The whole regime, the whole system was based on a lie. And during those 40 years, people learned that a lie is the basis of everything. And the issue is that when we speak about diet, about nourishment, and about vegetarianism with someone, they all try to escape to their small lies, and what is the worst is that when we lie to ourselves, because that’s a lie to God’s eyes. The problem is that some things only work when they are 100% clean. So when we talk to people about vegetarianism, about nourishment, about what Viśvagurujī is telling us, So they want to do what they have been doing so far. So they take the position of wanting to do a compromise. Sure, it’s not that healthy, but we have to die of something. And everybody will tell you, "I actually don’t basically eat any meat," because it’s not so fashionable anymore to eat meat. But the issue is one: we all know what is a clean source of water, and the same is with truth. If I have a tank with 1000 litres of clean water from a clean well, and if I put a small glass of crude oil there and mix it, it is no longer water. It’s a diluted crude oil. And if I put one gram of meat into a clean body, It’s no longer a clean spiritual body, and it will not be going in the right direction. So our path, which Viśvagurujī is telling us, is the clean water, and we cannot do compromises about truth. Because if you insert one molecule of lie into truth, it’s no longer truth, and it becomes, because it becomes a diluted lie. It’s something which is no longer a clean truth. It’s something that we can live with; we may be accepted by others more easily, but we’re losing something. Thank you, Viśvagurujī, from the bottom of my heart, for the truth you are giving to us. Praṇām Viśvagurujī, I think we all know that we should have arguments: the dietary arguments, why we should be vegetarian, the ethical arguments. We should know them, but we should also have them available when we speak to other people. Because many people are rational, and they need rational arguments, etc. But at the end of the day, what really works is your own example. And when we heard about the 100% truth and the diluted lie a short while ago, and when we just now heard about that 100% truth or about that truth which is diluted by a lie, and then it is no longer truth. So it is obvious that we have to be 100% vegetarian, and to be 100% vegetarian, you need to feel it in your heart, and then other people will also feel it, and they may be inspired. It may be difficult to defend it in their family or with their pediatrician, with their doctor. So I can tell you one practical example from our life. Our children are vegetarian, and they have always been since they were born. When we came to a new doctor, Premlata was there. I didn’t witness it myself, but it was in a small town, and the doctor was really surprised or even shocked that there are some vegetarian children that have never eaten meat. And she didn’t say anything, but she said, you know what, I would like to have some blood tests, just to make sure that everything is okay. And the results of the blood test were very good, no problem. And she did repeated blood tests, and then she was satisfied. But then we actually learned informally through other people that she was telling her patients, "I have two children, two patients who are vegetarian. They are small kids, and they are actually healthier than all the other children." So that was the best promotion, of course. So one final sentence. So stay your ground, regardless of what other people say. And people will get inspired.

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