It is very common that you go to a doctor and if you are a vegetarian, he kind of scoffs at you. It’s a very disdainful glance he throws at you: “Vegetarian?!” And that too, you see, is a relic of the fifties, sixties, seventies. It has gotten into the popular culture that to be big and strong, you have to have meat. Whereas, this is so foolish.
Have you never looked at an elephant? And if you say that to be big and strong you need to have meat, then surely you have never ever seen what an elephant looks like. Neither have you seen a horse, nor a rhinoceros, nor a gorilla or a chimpanzee if you believe that meat eaters are all… It’s just ridiculous.
This article has been created by volunteers of the PrashantAdvait Foundation from transcriptions of sessions by Acharya Prashant
