Choose Love over Taste || Acharya Prashant (2021)

Acharya Prashant

Full Video: If killing is so bad, why do carnivores exist at all? || Acharya Prashant (2021) Link:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyOIFnYK5Lk&t=0s  Video Information: 20.03.2021, Open Session, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India  Context: ~ Does killing by a lion and killing by a man a same thing? ~ Does carnivores animal have choice to not to kill? ~ How killing any animal affect human consciousness?  Music Credits: Milind Date ~~~~~

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00:00 Man has consciousness, man has decision making ability.

00:07 If man compares himself to a lion or a wolf, then he is debasing himself.

00:13 Is he not?

00:14 You are a man, you are a creature of high consciousness.

00:17 Why do you want to follow the dietary pattern of a wolf, which is a creature of a low consciousness?

00:25 So man has choice, therefore man has to practice compassion for his own sake.

00:33 Man has to ask himself, is it the only way possible to feed my stomach?

00:39 Do I really have to kill consciousness to sustain consciousness?

00:43 And even if I have to kill consciousness to sustain consciousness, does it have to be

00:48 an animal which has a relatively higher level of consciousness compared to grass?

00:54 Man is conscious, animal is conscious and the grass is conscious.

01:00 All three are conscious, right?

01:03 But man's consciousness is extremely high and it has the potential to go even higher,

01:09 greatly higher.

01:10 The sky, I mean the sky is not the limit.

01:14 That high man's consciousness can go.

01:17 So man is conscious, the animal is conscious, the animal is conscious is an in between kind

01:22 of consciousness.

01:24 The grass too is conscious, the grass's consciousness is very lowly, very basic.

01:30 So if the man's body is designed in a way that it has to have food and food will necessarily

01:37 involve killing.

01:38 You are very right, as you said, life eats life.

01:41 You are very right that for one biological form to survive, it has to consume another

01:46 biological form.

01:48 But I have the choice which biological form do I kill for my physical sustenance, this

01:54 or this.

01:56 This is animal and this is grass.

02:02 Given the choice, I will choose not to kill a relatively higher form of consciousness.

02:09 And in this I fully admit that even when I am eating the grass or the radish or the apple,

02:15 violence is still involved.

02:17 But I am helpless.

02:21 If I have to avoid even that level of violence, then I have to commit suicide or I shouldn't

02:28 have been born.

02:30 If the body is to be sustained, then the minimum level of killing has to happen.

02:37 But what's important is the word minimum.

02:41 Keep it to the minimum, keep it to the minimum.

02:43 It's not a matter of absolutes.

02:44 It's not in binaries.

02:45 You cannot say that I will not kill a living being at all.

02:50 If you will not kill a living being at all, you won't survive.

02:52 Simple.

02:53 And anyway living beings are getting killed in your throat, in your gut, on your skin,

02:59 every moment.

03:00 Even as you inhale, you take in so many microbes and they are all getting killed.

03:08 You don't even know, you take in a fizzy drink and you do not know what kind of slaughter

03:14 it has done in your elementary canal from here till there.

03:23 But that's the minimum.

03:24 What do I do?

03:25 What do I do?

03:26 Even as I step on the floor, something is getting killed.

03:32 I cannot avoid it.

03:34 But I should avoid what is avoidable.

03:36 Killing an animal is avoidable.

03:37 I should avoid it.

03:39 By saying that I am not at all saying that I am not guilty of killing at all.

03:47 Even the purest vegetarian or vegan is committing some level of killing.

03:54 But he can be exonerated if that killing has been kept to a minimum.

04:00 That's the word minimum.

04:02 Keep it to a minimum.

04:03 Keep it to a minimum.

04:05 Keep it to a level that is unavoidable.

04:08 You should say this level, beyond this level, sir, I couldn't have gone and if I need to

04:13 go beyond this level, then I just need to give up the body.

04:17 When you kill to eat, don't you have an option?

04:22 As human beings, the lion does not have an option.

04:24 If you have an option, why don't you exercise it?

04:26 You have to answer.

04:29 You have to answer and science is totally out on this.

04:34 There are no secrets left.

04:39 When you eat flesh, you are doing great damage to even your own biological system and you

04:45 are doing great damage to this entire ecosystem and still you are hell bent on killing.

04:52 You are doing damage to both your consciousness as well as your body and needless to say,

05:04 to the environment, ecosystem.

05:07 We have talked in detail on how flesh consumption is related to climate change.

05:12 Thank you.

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