Living Graves

"While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we ever expect ideal conditions on earth" - George Bernard Shaw

Are we not Living Graves when we eat dead animals ?

We take our dead to the cemetery but by eating the dead bodies of animals, aren't we making our bodies the grave yards of hundreds of animals ?

Have we conveniently forgotten that these living creatures have a soul ?

It is time that all humans acknowledge the divine spirit in each and every living creature on this planet.

These poor animals who have not been blessed with speech can surely feel pain.

They cannot express the suffering inflicted on them. They have no lawyers to stand up and fight for them nor leaders to revolt.

Thus humans take full advantage of their helplessness.

Are we so desperate to eat delicious food at the cost of inflicting suffering on these helpless creatures ?

It's time we ponder and decide for ourselves - is it worth it.

You Are Real

One night, a King had a dream in which he dreamt that he had lost his kingdom and became a beggar.

He was going round the streets of the city begging for alms. The pangs of hunger made him cry. A kind hearted person gave him some food, but to his great misfortune, even that morsel slipped down from his hand.

Just then the horror stricken king woke up from his dream. He found himself in his royal palace.

The king asked himself, "Which is real - the dream world or the conscious world? "

The Queen who was observing him was also perplexed. They decided to consult their spiritual master.

When the King had finished describing his dream, the spiritual master thus explained:

"O King, both are real in one sense but there is also another point of view. You became a beggar in the dream world and you are the King in the conscious world. ‘You’ exist in both the worlds. While these two worlds are unreal,
‘You’ alone are real. You are the absolute reality of the dreaming state as well as the conscious state".

As ye Sow so shall ye Reap

Bhagavad Gita says: "Whatever we do, we will have to pay accordingly"

There is an interesting story in the Indian epic, the Mahabharata, of a powerful King Dhirthrashtra who was born blind. He was a wise, intelligent and a religious king.

It bothered him a lot, he wanted to know the reason he was born blind. One day, he had the opportunity to meet Lord Krishna.

The King told Lord Krishna that thru his own spiritual powers he had checked his 100 previous lifetimes but still could not find out why he was born blind.

Lord Krishna touched the King's head with his hand and King Dhirthrashtra was then able to see behind 106 lifetimes. The King saw himself as a child playing in the lawn. He saw a little bug, and not knowing any better, he pierced the bug's eyes with a small piece of stick.

The king paid for his action 106 lifetimes later.

There is no escape from the Law of Karma.

We hide ourselves behind closed doors, in the dark, but we only deceive ourselves if we think no one is watching.

God is always watching our every thought and action.

This story illustrates the eternal truth that 'whatever we sow, we shall reap'.

Who is Good, Who is Evil ?

First, God created the Light; then by His Creative Power, He made all mortal beings.

From the One Light, the entire universe welled up.

All human beings are part of His creation.

That one Light is in everyone, so who is good, and who is evil?

The Creation is in the Creator, and the Creator is in the Creation, totally pervading and permeating all places.

The clay is the same, but the Fashioner has fashioned it in various ways.

There is nothing wrong with the pot of clay - there is nothing wrong with the Potter.

The One True Lord abides in all; by His making, everything is made.

Whoever realizes the Will of His Command, knows the One Lord. Only such a person can be called the Lord's true devotee.

Source: Saint Kabir (SGGS pages 1349-1350)

The Face of Death

The picture depicts a famine stricken child crawling towards an United Nations food camp, located a kilometer away. The vulture is waiting for the child to die so that it can eat it. This picture shocked the entire world. No one knows what happened to the child, including the photographer Kevin Carter, who left the place as soon as the photograph was taken.

Meet Your Meat

The Truth Exposed - humanity’s cruelest invention.....


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We Are What We Eat

What we eat and drink has tremendous effect on our body, mind and intellect.

For example, consumption of food such as meat, eggs, fish (ie flesh of animals) and intoxicants such as alcohol and drugs are generally very pleasing to an outgoing mind indulged in material life.

All of these lead to the material contamination of our mind.

The seed of bad habits : illicit sex, gambling, stealing, dishonesty, etc then begin to germinate.

As the saying goes: "We are what we eat"!

Conversely, the same diet has no appeal to a sincere Spiritual aspirant.

Thus, diet is a function of an individual's choice based upon his goal in life.

Do we want to become God conscious and go back to our Source, the Creator ?

Or do we want to merely continue to live a nonsensical life?

God has given us the free will to choose between these two.

No two ways about it!