DISCOURSES & TALKS BY MEHER BABA

DIET  &  SEXUALITY

26 April, 1924

During the afternoon break the Master ( Baba ) gave a brief discourse about diet:

There are many disadvantages to eating meat. The chief one is that eating meat increases passion [lust]. There is very little consciousness in stones — almost nil. It is in vegetation that the manifestation of consciousness begins. Consciousness increases as an animal form evolves into another animal form; in man it is complete. With the advance in consciousness, passion also increases. The more the consciousness, the more the passion; and the less the consciousness, the less the passion.

So, if we eat meat, the degree of passion increases in us; but if we remain on vegetarian food then it neither increases nor decreases.

Lord Meher On-line page 508-9

Lord Meher Vol.2 p.626