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This book by Acharya Prashant is a compilation of his honest insights on meat-consumption, its impacts, and critique of the human tendency to recklessly consume, dominate, proliferate; leading to the destruction of mankind. Acharya Prashant justly highlights and reinforces spirituality as the real solution to the global crisis in the light of ancient wisdom. The fundamental problem is the darkness of human mind. And only spiritual wisdom can heal it.

Acharya Prashant explicitly rejects the idea that eating animals is the same as eating plants. He argues that we must consume that which causes the minimum damage to consciousness.He says that this argument is often just an excuse used by meat-eaters. From an ecological standpoint, raising animals for meat requires far more plant-based agriculture (to feed the livestock) than a purely plant-based diet, making a meat-eater responsible for exponentially more plant and animal deaths.

Treating the consumption of fruits and vegetables and animals as equivalent ignores the pain and longing for freedom that animals experience.He concludes that while some may seek loopholes or excuses to continue eating meat, those who are honestly seeking truth will recognize the necessity of empathy and non-violence.

A recent scientific study published in the Journal of Animal Ecology reveals something deeply unsettling: pet goldfish released into the wild are turning delicate aquatic ecosystems into lifeless deserts. These seemingly innocent creatures, once "freed" by humans with good intentions, balloon to the size of a football in natural waters, reproduce at explosive rates, and then spend decades ravaging their new homes. Here is the striking detail: through a process called bioturbation, they violently churn up sediment from the bottom while searching for food. Clear water turns murky, sunlight cannot penetrate, aquatic plants perish without photosynthesis, and the fish compound the damage by devouring pond snails, zooplankton, and the eggs of native species. The result is a cloudy, barren aquatic desert where life once thrived.

Now here is the question that demands attention. We are busy scientifically studying this goldfish's destruction, but does the ego ever turn its gaze inward? These fish unknowingly destroy a pond, yet the ego, fully aware, calculating, and relentless, is ravaging the entire ecosystem of Earth. We nurture the dangerous illusion that technology alone will save the environment, like someone trying to clean muddy water while ignoring the goldfish, our blind consumption drive, that constantly stirs the sediment. We analyze, we measure, we publish papers, but where is the genuine intention to examine the inner core of consumption that drives this madness? Unless that examination happens, the data is clear: we are accelerating toward a sixth mass extinction, and no gadget will save us.

👉***🏼A point to ponder: if we cannot even stop a tiny goldfish from destroying its pond, what makes us think we can outsmart our own ego before it finishes destroying the Earth? Share your reflections in the comments below***.

Source: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2656.70259

Original Post: Vidya Avidya, AP Mirror

With all the push for this ethanol blending , what can be done to make things right apart from bjp everyone is suffering I’m have double thoughts on buying 2 wheeler n 4 wheeler, they mention that prices will be lowered that didn’t happen, car prices have increased and so has insurance alongside rejection of insurance cases

This needs to stop, we Indians burn a lot of fuel for unnecessary things , Modi asked to reduce usage both have state govt taken any action for it no

During Acharya Prashant's recent session at LSE in London, someone from the audience asked about animals having consciousness and plants not having it, and how that gives us the authority to consume plants.

His answer went somewhere unexpected.

It is like the wind blowing and the grass growing. You are not really responsible for that consumption. But if you hacked down a jungle, turned it into an orchard, ate the fruits, and called yourself non violent, vegetarian, vegan, religious, you are very violent.

If the body naturally eats a plant, that is not violence. But if the ego clears land, grows food of its choice, and consumes it, even fruit becomes violence because the ego is behind it.

Our bodies are constantly killing organisms through white blood cells and mucus. But that is not violence either. That is an existential imperative outside the ego. Only the ego is capable of violence.

This completely shifts how we understand ahimsa. ➡️ What part of this hit you the hardest?