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Nourishment has a crucial effect. Jesus also said: you eat what you shold not and not eat what you s

A spiritual discourse on the connection between diet, consciousness, and natural law.

"Anger, jealousy, hatred, greed, laziness, and desires—all these disturbances are caused by unnatural, unbalanced, and unhealthy nourishment."

"Mother Earth has enough for everyone's need, but not for their greed. This is what the ṛṣis said."

The speaker presents the ancient yogic conclusion that mental disturbances stem from unnatural nourishment, advocating for a plant-based diet rooted in non-greed and harmony with nature. He discusses the intelligence of natural systems, contrasts human consumption with that of animals like the tiger, and lists permissible nourishing foods like fruits, vegetables, nuts, and fresh milk. The talk critiques modern food habits and encourages a shift to fresh, natural foods for physical health and mental strength.

Recording location: Hungary, Vep, Weekend seminar

Anger, jealousy, hatred, greed, laziness, and desires—all these disturbances are caused by unnatural, unbalanced, and unhealthy nourishment. After researching for thousands of years, the yogīs and ṛṣis finally came to this conclusion and turned to a vegetarian way of life. Enduring food and life means eating vegetables. You can take only some leaves of plants, not kill the plants. It is said in the Vedas that everything that exists on this planet has a life. Science also speaks of our beautiful, living planet. Mother Earth has a soul—Ātmā. The soul, consciousness, mind, and energy are all different from that of humans. It is prohibited for humans to act otherwise on this planet. Every language tells you of "my mother tongue," "my motherland," "my mother country." Very few say "my fatherland." It is motherland—Motherland Hungary, Motherland Croatia, Motherland Australia, and our beautiful planet, Mother. People do not just think this; they feel it. Every tiger will kill only one deer. It will not kill two or three at once. It is not so stupid, for it has no freezer to preserve the meat. How clever it is. The tiger knows it should eat fresh and not seek old meat. But humans, when they go to collect mushrooms and find one, two, three, or four—which is enough for the whole family—they will collect a basket full. Then another person searching in the forest finds nothing. This is because you took more than you could eat that day. That is called the greed of the Ganges. It is said: Mother Earth has enough for everyone's need, but not for their greed. This is what the ṛṣis said. For a few months, I was also analyzing. If you eat something and do not feel bad, you will always feel fresh. Of course, if you are allergic to something, that is an individual case. Otherwise, eat one apple and feel how fresh you feel in your mouth, in your alimentary channels, and in your digestion. Consider the banana—from apple to banana—neither too much ghee inside, nor too much sugar, nor too little sugar, nor too hard, nor too soft. How beautifully Mother Nature prepared the banana. When you eat fresh and good food—pears, grapes, cherries, plums, and many, many fruits—your body becomes a blessed body. Your body tells you, it speaks to you, "My dear, like this." What your body needs for digestion is called jadībhūti and vanaspati. Jadībhūti means those herbs—you can take their leaves, and when the herbs have given their seeds and died, you can take the roots. Carrots, sweet potatoes—there are many root vegetables, and they have all kinds of nutrition. You feel pleasant when you eat them. But if you eat too much, if you eat too many potatoes, then you will look like ... what? You see, you will look like potatoes instead of supporting beautiful trees. Then there are nuts, many different kinds of nuts, which also have very valuable nutrition for your body. Peanuts, my God, that's all. Then there is the family of this creature: honey. People do not want honey because they think it is not ahimsā—you take it away from the bees. That's true. That is very true. The creator did not say that you should take so much honey, sell it, and put money in your pocket. That was not said. "Take that much and you must educate"? No. Remember, it is believed that people who used to come to Jesus, ill people, he blessed them and they became healthy. Like Devpurījī, he blessed them and they became healthy. So, Jesus told them: you are ill because you don't eat what you should eat, and you eat what you should not eat. He was indicating towards nature—the fields, the vegetables, the fruits, the nuts, nature, flowers, beans, honey, and mother cows' fresh milk. Can you imagine? Just milk the cow and drink that milk; you can't compare anything with that milk. That's why, like a mother's milk when she is breastfeeding the child—coming directly from the mother's body, the temperature is a very good temperature, neither too hot nor too cold. Similarly, the mother cow's body temperature for the fresh milk ... Milk older than two or three hours, if converted, they call yogurt "sleeping milk." In the Hungarian language, am I right or wrong? You call it sleeping milk. That's it. So let milk sleep. You get a very nice buttermilk. I am not telling you that you must become vegetarian. But I am telling you that vegetarians are the happiest people, who have so many choices. Others only go to the supermarket, buy meat, put it in the microwave, take it out, put ketchup on it, eat it, and then drink something like a Coca-Cola. That's all. Can you imagine? That's what most people are doing, unfortunately. Therefore, the ṛṣis say: eat what is called a curry diet. Eat vegetables, a little honey, a little milk, and grains. You know, they were meditating for days and days. They had no desires. They had ... they were not feeling hungry. The body had enough nutrition. They had no high blood pressure—of course they had blood pressure, but not high. They did not have high cholesterol. They had no diabetes. All these diseases were gone. I will talk to you after six months. Begin from this weekend. We have bought for you a lot of stuff to eat. Go and turn your life to vegetables, fresh vegetables. Try to get fresh milk and yogurt. Rice is enough to live the whole day. Strength comes from the mind—mental strength. Recording location: Hungary, Vep, Weekend seminar

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