Vegetarian Diet

[PAL 07]

ਪਸੂ ਮਿਲਹਿ ਚੰਗਿਆਈਆ ਖੜੁ ਖਾਵਹਿ ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤੁ ਦੇਹਿ ॥ page 489

the animals recieve good things - they eat grass and give amrit

[Kharrag Singh]

Hopefully, in this post the original topic starter can find a good argument for not eating eggs, and also it is a reply to the person who said Sikhs are lacto-vegitarians.

First principal of Sikhi is daya - being merciful. Therefore, straight from the outset, killing an animal for owns pleasure, or for an unneccessary reason is not daya. In conjunction with all the updesh from Dhan Sri Granth Sahib Ji, Dhan Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji's bani, Mahapurkh Bhai Gurdas Ji dian vaara, Rehit Maryade and Guru Sahibs ithiaas, it is beyond doubt that killing for one's tounge is wrong, taking a life is mahapaap.... However, lets bring it into context further...

Everything we do effects our karam and avastha (spirtual progression). Even eating plants will carry repurcussions on one's jeevan, i.e. a person consuming plants etc would have to take on some karam of the plants....However, I am sure I dont have to explain, but the karam for killing a plant compared to killing an animal would be far less... In fact, one reason for our nitnem...daily baani and daily ardaas/benti, is to cover for all those karams we do in even the most simplist persons life... ie eating vegetables etc, walking and accidently killing insects etc etc...

Therefore, logically, there is a scale. A gursikh on the path of meeting with Vaheguroo, does not make it harder for themselves and therefore sticks to the simplist of simple lives...

Also, from a spirtual progression point of view, everything that happens during the process of preparing our food, has an effect on it. Just as by simply eating degh which has had Gurbani read over it, or eating from the hands of a Mahapurkh rather than someone on the other end of the scale is more beneficial... Therefore, Gurmukhs on the path, would avoid eating from outside, eating processed foods - whatever one can do to reduce the above effects.

Therefore, based on the above, consuming eggs wouldnt even be a question in the mind of a Gursikh looking for spiritual progression. One does not know the karam attached to the causing of chickens to lay unfertilised eggs, one does not know the karam attached to the smoker alcohol drinking farmer who collects the egg, one does not know the condition through which that egg has gone through whilst being processed / packaged...etc... one does not know whether that chicken was supposed to give life to a chick... Hopefully, that clears the egg part... and for that matter any other such foods also....

Unlike a post above, Sikhs are not lacto-vegetarians or whatever it is... Sikhs are neither vegetarians or meat eaters...

Just to make it clear, should one want to live a life of acheiving spiritual progression, meat is a no no. However, as it has been shown in our history, should a Sikh find it necessary, or should a Sikh want to live the life of a warrior where it is necessary to consume meat, than that is ok - but again it will effect your avastha. However, again, Guru Sahibaans have given us marayda of chatka. Why? Because it goes to the point made above about karams. If a sikh wants to eat meat, do as per marayda, chatka all your meat...dont go kfc, dont go buy processed foods with elements already mixed in, do as per marayada. Do the karam, do the paath, do chatka yourself. However, again it would be worth reminding that if a person does this karam for pleasing the tounge, it would be a bigger karam to take on...

If we look at our mahaan Singhs of the past, eg Mahapurk Baba Deep Singh.. look at what their diet was... especially during the times when all they did was bhagti, they consumed sholay daane only.... cannot get much simpler than that... Baba Ji didnt require to even think about taking on karams by eating meat because they had all there strength through Gurbaani....

Just to make Sikhi fit into our lives we look for excuses or reasons and explain aspects of Sikhi differently...Heart of hearts, everyone knows the true answer... because Maharaaj resides in each... if we ask our aathma, is it ok eat this egg, we will know the answer... again, in a situation of war, depending on circumstances, if we ask our aathma, is it ok to eat meat.. we will gagain know the right answer... it all depends on whether we want to listen or not....

[.- Prabhjot Singh -.]

^^ Wonderful Post

[whyhellothere]

^^I agree, I really like this bit

Just to make Sikhi fit into our lives we look for excuses or reasons and explain aspects of Sikhi differently...Heart of hearts, everyone knows the true answer... because Maharaaj resides in each... if we ask our aathma, is it ok eat this egg, we will know the answer... again, in a situation of war, depending on circumstances, if we ask our aathma, is it ok to eat meat.. we will gagain know the right answer... it all depends on whether we want to listen or not....