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Summary of Question: | Karma And Meat |
Category: | General Sikhism |
Date Posted: | Thursday, 6/22/2000 11:49 PM MDT |
How is is that we are taking in the karma of what we eat?????
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Dear One;
Sat Siri Akaal.
Over millions of lifetimes, it is said that people have reincarnated as animals also. So, when you kill another for your own personal purposes (or partake in that process by buying meat in the store), you take on the karma of animal(s) because the animals MAY also have had human lifetimes and karmas to go with them.
Guru teaches us that when you take the life of another for any INTENTIONAL reason other than self-defense, you cut their life and karmic experience short. Since that one had karmas they were to live out in the lifetime you cut short, you may then be responsible for experiencing their karma as well. Obviously, the higher you go up the chain of existence, the more significant this can become.
Think of it in terms of "you are what you eat". When you eat the flesh of dead animals, then you deaden your own life force. There is NO prana or life force in dead flesh. There is in fruit, vegetables, milk products, and nuts-- typical foods of vegetarians.
I hope this clarifies the matter. God bless you,
-DKK