BABA'S QUOTES ON VEGETARIANISM

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"The third category is described as  "Madhyapaanoratha daanavah" (One who is addicted to intoxicating drinks and meat eating and leads a sensuous life is a demonic being). Such a person is intensely selfish and has no feeling or consideration for others. A wicked person, swayed by evil motives and evil actions, is described as a demon."

Sri Sathya Sai Baba Discourse on 25-12-1991

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"... with meat the body will get the proteins, but mental proteins will not be there. If you are keen on spiritual life, eating meat is not worthwhile; but if you are keen on wordly life, it is all right. There is another spiritual reason. When you kill an animal you give him suffering, pain, harm. God is in every creature, so how can you give such pain? Sometimes when someone beats a dog he cries, he feels so much pain. How much more pain then in killing. Animals did not come for the purpose of supplying food to human beings. They came to work out their own life in the world. When a human being is dead, the foxes and other animals may eat, but we have not come to provide food for those that eat the human body; we have not come for that ourpose. Similarly, man eats the animal, but the animal has not come to provide man with food."

Hislop, Jonh S., Conversation with Sathya Sai Baba, p. 19

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"Madhya paana ratho dushtah"  (The demonic human being revels in intoxicating drinks). Eating meat and drinking liquor are demonic vices. Those indulging in drink lose all sense of propriety, have no compassion or love and become demons.

Sri Sathya Sai Baba Discourse on 03-07-1994

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"How is individual transformation to be achieved? There are some bad habits among individuals such as smoking, drinking liquor, meat eating and gambling. These bad habits not only degrade the individuals but also inflict hardships on their families. These bad habits have to be given up for the individual to manifest his inherent goodness. One's personality can blossom only when he leads a mora life."

Sri Sathya Sai Baba Discourse on 07-02-1993

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"Members of Sai Organizations should cultivate certain desirable practices. For instance, they should regulate their diet, because one's food influences ones thoughts. Smoking and intoxicating drinks have to be given up. They are ruinous for the health. Meat eating should also be given up because eating animal food promotes animal tendencies. The fourth evil that has to be ot rid of is gambling. Those who take to the Spiritual path should avoid as much as possible these four bad practices."

Sri Sathya Sai Baba Discourse on 21-11-1995

 

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"It [meat] is not good for spiritual life which needs "mental proteins", and also because it means making an animal suffer and be killed."

Hislop, Jonh S., Conversation with Sathya Sai Baba, p. 19-20

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"But a little milk, butter and cheese are acceptable because no harm is done in obtaining them."

Hislop, Jonh S., Conversation with Sathya Sai Baba, p. 20

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"An important aspect of Swami's teachings, a point he again and again emphasizes, is to take only pure food. Avoid eating animal food... That type of consumption is not likely to promote spiritual progress."

Rodriguez, Brigitte, Glimpses of the Divine, p. 225