Re: Sikh and No-Vegiterian Food
Bindy_Bains said:
Thanks Gyani for mentioning this, i have a blood type and racial background that eats meat alot and ppl just dont understand. I now do still eat meat, just very little, due to the fact it doesnt appeal to me as much, it happened right after i entered sikhi - who would think???
Anyways, i believe there is a passage in the SGGs about ppl "argueing about meat and not enough time meditating", can anyone think of it???
Hey Bindy ji,
I know the one you mean. It has been posted at the beginging of this tread.
Personaly I read it to mean arguing about wether or not to eat meat is stupid also I have just found this:
What good is food, and what good are clothes,
if the True Lord does not abide within the mind?
What good are fruits, what good is ghee, sweet jaggery, what good is flour, and what good is meat?
What good are clothes, and what good is a soft bed, to enjoy pleasures and sensual delights?
What good is an army, and what good are soldiers, servants and mansions to live in?
O Nanak, without the True Name, all this paraphernalia shall disappear
From this I can ask then if fruit, ghee, jaggery, clothes, soft beds, soldiers, servants, mansions and meat are all forbiden in Sikhi?
The answer I would get I'm guesing is don't be so stupid.
So what does this mean? I read it to mean that all that is important is God, without God in your life the rest is meaningless paraphenalia. So eat meat if you want, or don't eat it if you don't want. However don't think that by not eating meat you get closer to God, Grur Granth Sahib tells us time and time again that this type of thinking is pandit thinking, don't think like a Pandit, think like a Sikh.
Arguing about eating meat is like arguing about which daily newspapers is best, ultimatly it doesn't matter.
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