We are to love. In all scriptures written by those persons who have any connection with love, they explain that we are never to hurt anyone. If you think of hurting anyone or anything then you have no love. He who has no love does not have God and is a cruel one. he cannot find any place in this world or in the Kingdom of God. First one has to develop love. Love feels like serving, giving, helping, and to be devoted. Love does not try to find something from the other person or to hurt anyone. A killing action is the first step necessary if one is to eat meat. It cannot be done without murder. One of the ten Commandments God gave was Thou shalt not kill. If you have love you will not be able to kill.

What is given to us by God, That we should eat. When fruit is ripe, it changes color, grows brighter and then asks us, calls us: "I am ready, please have me, I am for you." When the crop is almost ready to harvest. the crop calls us: "Please collect me. If you do not collect this I will fall down, become rotten, and will be of no use."

All of these things are given to us by God. What is not given to us, we are not to use. trying to catch something which runs away from us, that is cruelty. Find fruits, vegetables and grains and enjoy them. They are also blessed that they have become part of the body. This is the basic principle. In Genesis it has been explained that we are only to eat that food which caries the seed of the seed-bearing tree and we are only to eat that food which is grown on the table of the earth. Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth , and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree-yeilding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

For man, meat is not food. This is especially true when we are to go along with the path of the life of soul. We will have to prepare our body as a good vehicle for the journey of soul. The life of soul is very conscious; it is super consciousness. the body is inert material. But God has made this material very refined. The human body is refined. How can we help this system if we take much coarser particles of animals and put them in our body? It is a contradiction to our path of spiritual life.

Because it has life, the vegetarian diet is connected with the uplift of the soul. It is living food. This life is not missing from the green leaves, grains, fruits and vegetables. Life comes from life. Emphasis should be given to the eating of food in its natural state. Raw food, just as found in nature (not processed). This will support our vitality and consciousness.

Recent scientific research has indicated that the ingestion of meat products are greatly detrimental to human health, and can contribute to a number of diseases.