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eats meat?</i></p>
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none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0'>I W<span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt'>ILL</span> tell you then a story. I knew a young woman, Swedish, who
was doing Sadhana. Normally she was a vegetarian, by habit as well as by
inclination. One day she was invited to a dinner. She was given fowl to eat.
She did not like to make a fuss and quietly ate her fowl. Now at night she
found herself, in dream of course, in a basket and her head in between two bits
of sticks and being shaken to and fro. She felt very unhappy, very miserable.
And then she saw herself head down and legs up in the air and being shaken,
shaken continually. She was thoroughly miserable. All on a sudden she felt she
was being skinned, flayed and how painful it all was! And then some one came
with a knife and cut off her head. She woke up at that. She told me the story
and said she had never had such a frightful nightmare in her life. She had
thought nothing of this kind before going to bed; it must have been simply the
consciousness of the poor chicken that entered into her and she experienced in
dream all the agonies of this creature when it was being carried to the market,
her feathers pulled out and in the end the head severed. That is what happens.
In other words, along with the meal that you take, you absorb also, in a large
or small measure, the consciousness of the animal whose flesh you swallow. Of
course it is nothing serious, but it is not always pleasant. Yet obviously it
does not help you to be more on the side of man than on that of the animal
kind. Primitive men, we know, were much nearer the animal level and used to
take raw meat: that gave them evidently more strength and energy than cooked
meat. They used to kill an animal, tear it to pieces and bite into the flesh.
That is how they were robust and strong. Also it was for this reason perhaps that
there was in their intestines an organ called appendix of a much bigger size
than it is now: for it had to digest raw
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class=GramE>meat</span>. As men however started cooking their food and found it
more palatable that way the organ too gradually diminished in size and fell
into atrophy; now it does not serve any purpose, it is an encumbrance and often
a source of illness. This means that it is time to change the diet and take to
something less bestial. It depends, however, on the state of the consciousness of
each person. An ordinary man, who leads an ordinary life, has ordinary <span
class=GramE>aspirations,</span> thinks of nothing else than earning his
livelihood, keeping good health and rearing a family, need not pick and choose,
except on purely hygienic grounds. He may eat meat or anything else that he
considers helpful and useful, doing good to him.</p>

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if you wish to move from the ordinary life to a higher life, the problem
acquires an interest. And again, for a higher life if you wish to move up still
farther and prepare yourself for transformation, then the problem becomes very
important. <span class=GramE>For there are certain foods that help the body to
become more refined and others that keep it down to the level of animalhood.</span>
But it is only then that the question acquires an importance, not before. Before
you come to that point, you have a lot of other things to do. It is certainly
better to purify your mind, purify your vital before you think of purifying
your body. For even if you take all possible precautions and live physically with
every care to eat only the things that help to refine the body, but the mind
and the vital remain full of desire and inconscience and obscurity and all the
rest, your care will serve no purpose. Your body will become perhaps weak,
disharmonious with your inner life and drop off one day.</p>

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mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>You must begin from within. I have said a
hundred times, you must begin from above. You must purify first the higher
regions and then purify the lower ones. I do not mean by this that you should
give yourself up to all the licences that degrade the body. I do not mean that
at all. I am not advising you not to control your desires. What I mean is this:
do not try to be an angel in the body before you are already something of the
kind in your mind and in your vital. For that will bring about a dislocation,
a lack of balance. And I have always said that to maintain the balance, all
the parts must progress together. In trying to bring light into one part you
must not leave another part in darkness. You must not leave any obscure corner
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