Mahatma Gandhi & Ahimsa 4 - Ahimsa And Diet Comments

Thank you Susan for your honest and nice comment on this poem. Though, Diet plays a great role in the constitution of personal health, yet, in the practiice of Ahimsa, the higher purpose prevails i.e. where the heart flows with love and compassion for all.

Part 2. I have no personal deep-seated difficulty with eating meat- -I only have a personal deep-seated difficulty with killing the animals to obtain the meat. If that was the only way I could get meat, I would perforce be a vegetarian. There would be no virtue in that choice for me to brag about that is for sure. Love this poem and your philosophy behind it.10++++++++++++++++++.

Part 1. I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.- - Mahatma Gandhi. Is this the diet that is the topic of your poem? I enjoyed your rebellion! !

Hi, Geeta! Hope this finds you well in all ways. To this poem, amen! Though it took me a while to come to this. I did a lot of experimenting with diet and fasting in my early twenties. Today the main thing I’d say is that we should eat primarily for strength and enjoy what comes with that. Convenient, yes? , how God makes pleasure accompany necessities. -Glen

This beautiful poem gives me hope. Fasting for a lot of people had became ritualistic and is no reflection of the personality concerned. The true purpose of fasting had been long lost. Thank you Geeta.