The theory behind creation is the theory of karma. What you do will come back to you. So if you do good karma, that is, you do not give pain to anyone, you will not get pain in return and will have the darshan of devs and devis. But if you do the opposite, all the animals and humans you give pain to, will ultimately kill you and those around you.
Often people give pain to animals thinking it is a healthy diet choice. Here it is important to assess what the body requires. Does your body need the heavy negative energy that comes with red meat? It is a misconception that red meats are required to develop good muscles. The biggest wrestlers in our country—Gama Pehalwan and Dara Singh—were vegetarians. Strength does not lie in what you eat; strength lies in the efficiency of the body to digest what you eat. If your body has a poor efficiency, then no matter what kinds of proteins you take, it is not going to provide strength. What it will do instead is, release toxins within because your body mechanism is not suited for such a diet.
The human body can only digest 5-8 per cent of nutrients from red meats. Remaining 95-92 per cent of it stays in the colon as toxins and has to be eliminated.
Modern medical science says ‘death begins in the colon’. The International Agency for Research on Cancer, WHO, found a strong correlation between meat intake and colon cancer. On the other hand, a 2003 study by European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition established that eating more fibre—found only in plant foods—decreases risk of colon cancer.
During World War I, Denmark was cut off from all imports, including food. To conserve food, instead of using grains to raise livestock, they were fed to three million citizens. Later, Journal of the American Medical Association recorded that during the period from 1917 to 1918, when restrictions were most severe, death rate in Copenhagen by disease was by far lowest in recorded history! Similar results were found in Norway and Britain during World War II.
If you look around, you will find that disease has increased in the last 20 years, with newer forms of cancers manifesting. All this is because of the change in our diets which increasingly include heavy meats. Human body is not designed for such food. What is worse is most animals whose meat you consume are fed on toxic wastes from garbage dumps. These toxins leach into their meat which you consume and keep accumulating in the body.
In the West, cows were fed on animal proteins to make them strong. The result was the Mad Cow Disease, which killed so many people, because a cow’s body is not designed for such a diet. The same is true with human body. Eating such meats increases toxicity levels in our body. The heavier the food, the greater amount of energy is required to push it out of the system. As a result, the prana in the body depletes at a fast rate and you often fall sick.
So find a guru, do yoga properly, understand what your body is made up of and gradually go through the process of changing. With every morsel of red meat that you have, you take toxins and negative karma inside you.
If you are happy and healthy, then go on eating. But if you are not, then stop.
The writer is the spiritual head of Dhyan Ashram. Email: dhyan@dhyanfoundation.com