The Case For Vegetarianism | Thinking Bhakti Podcast EP12

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  • @uncookedpram
    @uncookedpram 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

    I met him on a plane. Now Im listening to his podcasts. Jay sri Ram

  • @pniraj007
    @pniraj007 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    Swamiji understands Hindu philosophy and theology better than most practicing Hindus. So much to learn from him. Very insightful.

  • @aaradhakananda
    @aaradhakananda 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    By far one of the best choices I made in life was to become vegetarian when I was 16. Today, I see Guruji's guidance through all those steps since the spiritual master prepares us prior to the first physical meeting

  • @emmaevans5779
    @emmaevans5779 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Became vegetarian when I was 10, primarily due to love for animals and it was at that age I realised I did not have to copy everyone else and eat meat. I read a lot about vegetarian nutrition and cooking. My parents were not vegetarian but respected my choice and allowed me to cook for myself. Food in boarding school was more difficult as this was in the ‘90s and I’m allergic to eggs and a lot of vegetarian food in those days revolved around egg. Marmite was my saviour.
    I become vegan not long after the birth of my first child when blood tests revealed I had an allergy to casein. So I was vegan during my second pregnancy, the midwife caring for me was impressed with my health during the pregnancy and the post natal recovery.
    My kids have been vegan since birth. They are super healthy, energetic, conscious and kind human beings.

  • @swarnjeetSingh
    @swarnjeetSingh 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    love to see a fellow Canadian doing great and getting back to Spiritual path

  • @joancasper1033
    @joancasper1033 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Lady said to me “how do you get your protein?” Told her I go out into my pasture and eat the grass! What a look on her face! Wow
    Thank you for this satsang. Jai Gurudev

  • @smritiananda4658
    @smritiananda4658 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    I appreciate your podcast. Ironically met Swami Vishwananda 2005. I was a Brahmachari back in the day. His presence is amazing. Lately his presence is with me and in my mind constantly. I am blessed.

    • @p.rabbitt4914
      @p.rabbitt4914 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hi- I can relate. I'm curious to know what was ironic about your meeting, & what is brahmachari?

    • @smritiananda4658
      @smritiananda4658 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@p.rabbitt4914 I was thinking back to how I met Swamiji. It was 2005 and had been reading autobiography of a yogi and studying self realization. I asked universe for a teacher in a body and I met Vishwananda at a mudra workshop that weekend in Colorado 2005. Brahmachari I is a nun

    • @smritiananda4658
      @smritiananda4658 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@p.rabbitt4914 Brahmachari is like a monk or nun . One that realizes it is one with existence. Dedicates life to expressing their inner existence towards service to humanity.

    • @smritiananda4658
      @smritiananda4658 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@p.rabbitt4914 I was reading autobiography of a yogi and doing self realization practice. I asked the universe for a teacher in a body. I met Vishwananda that weekend in a mudra workshop.

  • @curiouslyeternal
    @curiouslyeternal 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Man, you have given me some things to think about. I’m a former carnivore but still eat a large amount of meat and eggs. I have been struggling with the idea of vegetarianism over the last few days and this video pops up. I’m listening…

    • @p.rabbitt4914
      @p.rabbitt4914 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      To release others from suffering, is the most freeing & uplifting feeling.

  • @radhikaines
    @radhikaines 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    💚 yeyyy, so cool you're talking about this 🌎🐋🐙🐠🌿🐑🐮🦌🐷🙏🏼 specifically in our days , it's really urgent to clarify this subject and keep reminding people what's the most important here - the respect , the harmony and knowledge of the most non-violent way of eating : the ahimsa lifestyle. Veggie for life 🙏🏼

  • @elena_lightway
    @elena_lightway 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Thank you! I look forward to seeing every podcast! The first part was so touching. I appreciate that you sharing such personal stories. It was so valuable. Thank you! Jai Gurudev!

  • @vwlisa
    @vwlisa 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Great talk.
    I can’t understand how everyone doesn’t feel this way about eating animals and their byproducts.

  • @miguelsramon4702
    @miguelsramon4702 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    i like your podcasts

  • @Roar1921
    @Roar1921 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Ati uttamam. Superb. I absolutely love your conversations. I would love to hear your conversations about dharma and nature.

  • @radhikaines
    @radhikaines 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thank you for this podcast; really, the story of RishiSambhava's father and how Rishi met Guruji; like how his life changed is just wow.
    His 1st Darshan with Guruji is mind blowing. Love this podcast ~ personal, human and spiritual 💙

  • @vbacic
    @vbacic 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Thank you so much for this topic, Swami 🙏🏻🌼 Jai Gurudev

  • @8019oleg
    @8019oleg 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Jai Gurudev 🙏

  • @RamSingh-wc1tn
    @RamSingh-wc1tn 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Very knowledgeable video everyone must watch it जय श्रीराम

  • @parvativittoriavitale431
    @parvativittoriavitale431 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Jai Gurudev,
    Great podcast 👏

  • @abhijeetroy4635
    @abhijeetroy4635 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Jay shree Ram 🙏😊❤️
    Guru ji

  • @ShriramjaiRam-ox5kn
    @ShriramjaiRam-ox5kn 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Shri sita ram

  • @babloobablooyadav3232
    @babloobablooyadav3232 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Shree Krishn Chaitanya prabhu Nitya nand shree advait gadadhar shree wash aadi gaur bhakt brind ❤❤

    • @p.rabbitt4914
      @p.rabbitt4914 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Are these just made up words?

  • @hindustani6965
    @hindustani6965 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Jai Shri Krishna 🙏,
    Jai Shri Ram 🙏

  • @pkmishra6763
    @pkmishra6763 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Radhe Radhe prabhuji, Hare Krishna 🙏🙏

  • @loveiseternal108
    @loveiseternal108 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I miss guruji but he's in my heart

  • @unicornplus4444
    @unicornplus4444 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    nice podcast

  • @keertimaalini8136
    @keertimaalini8136 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Children are often much more in tune with their soul and are the first ones to stop eating meat, like Paramahamsa Vishwananda himself. There are so many sweet stories all over the world, where the whole family changed due to the innocent love and compassion of their children...

  • @smritiananda4658
    @smritiananda4658 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    🙏🏻thank you

  • @guitarinteract
    @guitarinteract 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Refreshing to hear the ethics of Ahimsa in a plant based life. I am moving toward the Bhakti philosophy as a Christian because Christianity is based in anthropomorphic speciesism, though Jesus was likely vegetarian.

  • @cordeliakoenig108
    @cordeliakoenig108 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    ❤🙏

  • @p.rabbitt4914
    @p.rabbitt4914 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Thanks for this convo guys. I appreciate your vision of the World leaping forward towards its greater ideal potential. That's what I want too. Jai guru dev 💜

  • @pavan2799
    @pavan2799 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Jai shree Ram❤

  • @raquelmoreiravedinidasi1941
    @raquelmoreiravedinidasi1941 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Jai Gurudev❤ Mais um maravilhoso Podcast.
    Obrigado Swamiji e a todos os convidados🙏✨️💙

  • @b.r.8900
    @b.r.8900 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Incredible story, thanks for sharing.

  • @krishnadasiconceicao7701
    @krishnadasiconceicao7701 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    ❤❤❤❤❤

  • @meerratiwarrii9137
    @meerratiwarrii9137 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

  • @Myriamnathalie888
    @Myriamnathalie888 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    🎉 😮 fascinating, intense, touching..such a course of life..
    ❤ Gratitude for these profound, authentic interviews, where we learn to know our Brothers & Sisters, behind the surface 😊

  • @MariaSilva-bi5fw
    @MariaSilva-bi5fw 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    There are not many reasons , but there are many excuses ...! (For not going veg)

  • @siddhalakshmidasi108
    @siddhalakshmidasi108 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you so much! I’m grateful & happy all this is being said in an educative and holistic context. Nobody honest with themselves can deny the evident truth of your conversation 🙏🏼👍🏼❤️

  • @alinstate
    @alinstate 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you for the exercise at the end... You need to be informed in order to stand your ground and to walk straight.

  • @natasharamdass6389
    @natasharamdass6389 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So sweet. Love this interview 😊

  • @VeganRevolution
    @VeganRevolution 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Be Vegan get weaned.
    Too many devotees attached to dairy as an addiction

  • @WoodRabbit75
    @WoodRabbit75 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I have read in the scripture’s that Lakshmana hunted, killed, skinned and then prepared a deer meal for Sri Rama, who ate it. Rishi’s would walk around with deerskin garments and meditate on tiger skin blankets. The pandava’s had to move from one location in the forest to another because of overhunting. Can you explain these instances? I say this with all respect. I am only eating dairy animal products myself. Jai Sri Krishna.

  • @laurencemarie6550
    @laurencemarie6550 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    just experiments have been done on carrots and tomatoes with the Kyrlian effect... measurements which show a reaction of tomatoes cut with anger which then "retract" at the sight of a knife ... Perhaps this simply leads us to be gratefull, eating so vegetables, towards the Living in all its forms, without fanaticism but with awareness.

  • @annnand7421
    @annnand7421 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So hard to listen to all this
    Jai Sri Krisna
    Jai Sri Ram

  • @Pankaj-tk7lx
    @Pankaj-tk7lx 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Actually about 92 billion animals are killed for human. Consumption

  • @braveboy8176
    @braveboy8176 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Ram Ram🙏If God exists why is there suffering? I'm asking about "PROBLEM OF EVIL".how to reconcile the existence of evil and suffering with an omnipotent, omnibenevolent, and omniscient God?

    • @MohitMishra-d6l
      @MohitMishra-d6l 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      why there is suffering?? tell me what will be the value of Day if there is no Night?? what will be the value of Good when there is no Bad? what will be the value of Food when people are not hungry??? so without suffering you will not value your life that god gave you.. and these suffering is coming from your karma... Any work that you will do you will get it back. if not today you get tomorrow if not in this birth you will get it in next... your karma will never leave you... it will only leave you if you surrender to the lord.. surrender yourself to Ram ji.. God Ram will take care of everything.

    • @braveboy8176
      @braveboy8176 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@MohitMishra-d6l Hare Krishna Pranam 🙏 Why did God create the soul in such a way that due to free will, the desire to become God or to become an enjoyer arose in the soul and due to free will in the tatastha place or Golok Dham, the soul turned away from God and remained eternally Forced to suffer from time? While no one wants to suffer, Swayam has no hatred towards anyone, God has made him like this only because such a desire arises in him i.e. a desire to suffer like God or to become God himself, which he himself cannot fulfill, and in return only the living soul has to suffer. Can cause suffering, that is, those painful actions are bound to come in the physical world, due to which the soul is certain to suffer, whereas it does not want to suffer, it cannot live as per its wish in the physical world and if it wants to die after being disappointed in this life. Cannot die even after that, pain, intense pain, intense pain of death, Yama Danda, pain, fear of hell, 84 lakhs affair, pain of pregnancy, Tritap.... Due to the fear of God and His power, the soul is bound to do devotion because if there is no devotion to God. If he does so, God himself or through his Maya Shakti or any other power will give severe pain to that soul...

    • @braveboy8176
      @braveboy8176 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@MohitMishra-d6l हरे कृष्ण प्रणाम 🙏क्या कमी थी भगवद धाम में या गोलोक धाम में जो जीव ने अपनी free will का दुरुपयोग किया?Bhagvad dham me Kis चीज ने जीव को बाध्य किया free will k dwara इस कष्टदाई भौतिक जगत को चुनने k liye ??Bhagvad dham me Kis चीज ने जीव को free will ka misuse krne k liye badhya kiya jisk kaaran vo anadi kal se is kashtadaayi karagar maaya jagat me aakar kashta bhogne k liye badhya ho gaya ?भगवान ने जीवात्मा को ऐसा क्यों बनाया कि वो भगवद धाम या तटस्थ स्थान पर फ्री विल का दुरुपयोग करे और इस कष्टदायक कारागार जगत में आकर अनादि काल से कष्ट भोगने के लिए बाध्य हो ?

    • @MohitMishra-d6l
      @MohitMishra-d6l 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@braveboy8176 this is very long paragraph that im gong to write so read it fully 😄😃
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      Okay, let me tell you why God created this world or why souls got trapped in endless time. There was a time when he was all alone, so he created a game and named it 'Moksha' (Free of birth and death). As he created this game, he also established some rules for it. The main goal of this game is to realize God (himself), and when the soul realizes God (himself), it comes out of the 'Birth and Death' game and gets mixed in with God. After that, it will never take birth again.
      As he created this game, he also knows how to end it very easily. Without hurdles, there is no fun in the game. So, he created an illusion called Maya, and after that, he divided himself into countless parts. He created multiple universes, planets, humans, animals, insects, etc. He created 84 lakhs yoni (various life forms) and told Maya that only humans can end this game. If a soul enters another yoni (or form like an insect or animal), it cannot clear the game.
      He told Maya that when he takes birth in this material world, Maya should cover his divine power or ability to understand the reality of God (or soul). He created free will to do anything one wants to do. This free will is the source of good and bad deeds. If you drink too much water, you will die; if you eat too much, you will also die. 'Free will is not bad'; the excess of everything is bad.
      Now, with his free will, one may think, 'I will become God' or 'enjoy my life as God.' Because of this, one creates suffering for oneself and for others since they cannot fulfill their free will. Remember, the soul has only one job: to understand God. You can understand God through meditation or love. Meditation is hard; that's why it is for saints and gurus. However, with love, you can get to understand God in minutes.
      In Hinduism, there is no concept of fearing God; it is more about loving God. Hell or Yamdand is for sinners not for devotees(Go and Read the story of Markandeya(rishi) and Yamraj...) In Hinduism, you can do anything you want; that's life. But the actions you perform will come back to you. So, don't fear hell or other painful sources; just love God, nothing else.
      If you love God like a mother, he will become like a child and start running towards you to get love (as seen in the love between Krishna and his mother). If you love him like a devotee, he will give love as a God (as seen in the stories of Sudama, Meera, Hanuman, etc.). If you love him like a friend, he will love you like a friend (as seen in the bond between Arjun and Krishna). Only a true devotee can enter Golok, and if you enter Golok, there is no coming back; the soul will not take birth again.

    • @MohitMishra-d6l
      @MohitMishra-d6l 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@braveboy8176 Im writing this Big Paragraph so read it fully........haha
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      Okay, let me tell you why God created this world or why souls got trapped in endless time. There was a time when he was all alone, so he created a game and named it 'Moksha' (Free of birth and death). As he created this game, he also established some rules for it. The main goal of this game is to realize God (himself), and when the soul realizes God (himself), it comes out of the 'Birth and Death' game and gets mixed in with God. After that, it will never take birth again.
      As he created this game, he also knows how to end it very easily. Without hurdles, there is no fun in the game. So, he created an illusion called Maya, and after that, he divided himself into countless parts. He created multiple universes, planets, humans, animals, insects, etc. He created 84 lakhs yoni (various life forms) and told Maya that only humans can end this game. If a soul enters another yoni (or form like an insect or animal), it cannot clear the game.
      He told Maya that when he takes birth in this material world, Maya should cover his divine power or ability to understand the reality of God (or soul). He created free will to do anything one wants to do. This free will is the source of good and bad deeds. If you drink too much water, you will die; if you eat too much, you will also die. 'Free will is not bad'; the excess of everything is bad.
      Now, with his free will, one may think, 'I will become God' or 'enjoy my life as God.' Because of this, one creates suffering for oneself and for others since they cannot fulfill their free will. Remember, the soul has only one job: to understand God. You can understand God through meditation or love. Meditation is hard; that's why it is for saints and gurus. However, with love, you can get to understand God in minutes.
      In Hinduism, there is no concept of fearing God; it is more about loving God. Hell or Yamdand is for sinners not for devotees(Best Example is Go and Read the story of Markandey and Yamraj). In Hinduism, you can do anything you want; that's life. But the actions you perform will come back to you. So, don't fear hell or other painful sources; just love God, nothing else.
      If you love God like a mother, he will become like a child and start running towards you to get love (as seen in the love between Krishna and his mother). If you love him like a devotee, he will give love as a God (as seen in the stories of Sudama, Meera, Hanuman, etc.). If you love him like a friend, he will love you like a friend (as seen in the bond between Arjun and Krishna). Only a true devotee can enter Golok, and if you enter Golok, there is no coming back; the soul will not take birth again.

  • @indian9632
    @indian9632 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    If people learn and taste vegetarian dishes, they will at least try to eat less meat

    • @VikramHoppe
      @VikramHoppe 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      th-cam.com/video/EB3j8GDDxZs/w-d-xo.html

  • @Ajayraaz-xb5km
    @Ajayraaz-xb5km 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hare krishna swami ji.

  • @pierregayet2692
    @pierregayet2692 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What are all these people who has wearing orange dress and little smink and think they are spiritual?😂

    • @MetaPixel7
      @MetaPixel7 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Unsubstantiated judgment also doesn't make you spiritual

    • @MohitMishra-d6l
      @MohitMishra-d6l 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Ok so you have no idea why they are wearing orange dress and the sign on their fore head... ok so let me tell you why they wear orange cloths... orange color is the symbol of sacrifice(sacrifice of material things or material deeds) after sacrifice the material things only you can lead to spiritual path..... and the symbol you are seeing is of Vashnav sects... they are the follower of God Vishnu(he is the one of the main god in hindusim ) that's why they wear this symbol on their forehead ... so please don't laugh at them without knowing anything... their life is really hard to follow..

  • @W-dh2uf
    @W-dh2uf 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Jai sri Ram