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The Cycle of Consumption and Consequence

The cycle of consumption creates inevitable consequences. People engage in certain actions, like eating meat, and these actions propagate through a cycle. They manifest elsewhere, moving from place to place, until they culminate in a significant problem. While one may feel powerless to stop this overall cycle, those with understanding can take action from their own position. The effective action is personal discretion in consumption. This means choosing a very good diet, specifically one that avoids harming animals. The prescribed method is to eat only fruits and similar pure foods. This individual discipline is the available recourse against the pervasive cycle.

"You can do anything, but it will be like this."

"Only eat more now, very much, only fruits, very good."

I am aware of that situation. I know many people who are very good, and everything is in its place. But many people also are coming, and they come and eat meat and such things. And these people have come, so it will always manifest somewhere. First, it goes in this way, from this. It will come in here. And again, it will come. Everything is coming there, there, here. And then it will begin, so that there will be no more anymore, because it will be a problem. You can do anything, but it will be like this. So, and if you have, maybe you can do... you have invited and then your people. And then they will eat very much meat and this. It will be big problems. It will be big problems. It can... we cannot do. I cannot tell anybody. But if those who have a little bit of an idea, then we can do it from there. Otherwise, no one can do it. No one can do it. What can you do about its root, about its what, what... So what you can do with discretion may be that you always go home now and don’t eat anything, those things, but very good, only very good eating, very good, very good one, which is that is not a, not a good thing. What we call the animals and these, I don’t give a whole. No. Only eat more now, very much, only fruits, very good, and this and that and that. So, it will be those who are having many meat eats, and this and that, and this. And, okay, the friends, many friends, and they said, "Oh, we are three people there." And then, okay, ek din to khāī lenge (so we will eat one day). So ek din bhī khā liyā hai itnā, sorry (so even one day, we have eaten so much, sorry). So that it will go out. It is that, how many people you know, and it will be eating and drinking like this. Yeah, this is the gang drinks this. They think it is very good with this drink. Other this, like this, and drink. And then it is the... itnā hai, vo us ādmī, aur vo aise hai unkā dukh, unkā, vo uskā dukh bahut hai. Vo uskā dukh bahut hai. Kyā kare? Yes? (It is so much, that man, and their sorrow is like this, their, his sorrow is very great. His sorrow is very great. What to do? Yes?)

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