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Mother's
Message:
A Call To
Vegetarianism: Taking the Oath
Cultivating
a life of non-hurting and making the commitment to inner harmony
your first priority
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There
can be no peace on earth until we eradicate the mentality
of violence. For this, we have to stop the killing.
Vegetarianism is a Vedic edict for harmonious living
and, in our present world culture it must be considered
a moral necessity for all cultures, traditions and religions.
Vegetarianism is a primary necessity if we are to transform
the world's conflict, chaos and corruption into human
cooperation, compassion, and care. |
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Govinda - Nurturer of the cows |
Mother calls on each and every person to make
a commitment to inner harmony by converting to vegetarianism. Mother
urges you to do your inner work - dig deeply into the very heart
of conscience to transform the mind of violence into an instrument
of peace.
 Shift
And Awaken Individual Awareness
In so doing, we must accept our part in contributing to the inhumane
cruelty inflicted on the animal. In the USA, 660,000 animals are
butchered for meat every hour. The animals' suffering adds to the
universe's vibration of lawlessness, injustice, and inhumanity that
affect and afflict the present human condition.
Make A
Commitment To Inner Harmony
You are contributing to the cosmic conscious wellspring that generates
public awareness to desist crimes against animals prevalent in the
animal-uncare throughout the world.
Inner harmony cannot be achieved at any level while we continue
to mindlessly slaughter the animals to fill our stomachs and satisfy
our appetites for flesh and blood and profit.
Transform
Your Sense Of Taste
Awakening awareness transforms your sense of taste.
To change our prodigious sense of taste, we must first cultivate
respect for and awareness of nature through the practices of food,
breath and sound (see Ayurveda in Wise Earth Tradition's
Education).
Our sense of taste and desire are conceived through
our tissue and ancestral memories of which both forms of memories
are seeded in the human psyche. This psyche is conducive to the
subtle conditions of the universe - rhythms of body and mind are
patterned after cosmic vibrations. However conscious we may appear
to be, we may not recognize that each and every one of us experiences
at varying levels of being - the collective emotional imprint of
all species.
For example, in the subtle plane of human psyche,
we feel the pain, agony, fear and terror that the animal experiences
in the horrific journey toward its slaughter. After consuming the
animal's flesh, we carry these emotional imprints in a more manifested
way within our tissue memory.
Make a
Moral Commitment to Life
Seceding personal responsibility for eating flesh to the customs
and traditions of our ancestors is not an acceptable reality. The
nature of our present time and space necessitates each and every
person to make a moral commitment to life. We can feed the hungry
of the earth ten times over when each and every human inhabitant
on the earth commits to a vegetarian lifestyle.
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60% of
US farmland is used for beef production, and to produce each
pound of beef requires 16 pounds of edible grain and bean. |
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One thousand
million people in the world can be fed and nourished properly
if every person in the US became a vegetarian. |
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250%
more of nature's resources are needed to produce (pound for
pound) meat than to produce grains, vegetables, and fruits. |
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USA uses
33% of its natural resources and raw materials for its production
of livestock compared to a mere 2% of the same resources to
produce a vegetarian diet. |
Taking
the Oath of a Sakahari
THE SAKAHARI'S OATH
Instructions:
Facing the early morning sun, take the following oath by reciting
it audibly.
" From this day onward, I take this sacred oath to become
a Sakahari. My oath is my word. My word is my contribution to inner
harmony. May the universe protect me as I abide in reverence with
all life."
To solemnize your sacred oath as a Sakahari, write
it out in your personal journal, sign and date it.
Love and Blessings,
Sri Swamini Mayatitananda
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