The Alpha and the Omega - Kabir Kadre.Com

within your heart. A certain silent bridge is being
created by your Buddhalike walk. Just sit under a
tree like a Buddha. Just sit, just the body. Suddenly
you will see that your breathing is changing. It is
more relaxed; it is more harmonious. When the
breathing is harmonious and relaxed, you will feel
the mind is less tense. Thoughts are less there, less
clouds, more space, more sky. You will feel a
silence in and out, flowing.
Hence, I say Patanjali is scientific. If you want to
change the body posture, Patanjali will say change
your food habits, because every food habit creates
subtle body postures. If you are a meat eater you
cannot sit Buddha-like. If you are non-vegetarian
your posture will be different, if you are vegetarian
your posture will be different # because the body
is built by your food. It is not an accident.
Whatsoever you are putting in the body, the body
will reflect it.
So vegetarianism for Patanjali is not a moralist cult,
it is a scientific method. When you eat meat you
are not only taking food, you are allowing a certain
animal from which the meat has come to enter in
you. The meat was part of a particular body; the
meat was part of a particular instinct pattern. The
meat was the animal just few hours before, and that
meat carries all the impressions of the animal, all
the habits of the animal. When you are eating meat
your many attitudes will be affected by it.
And if you are sensitive you can become aware that
whenever you eat certain things, certain changes
immediately come. You can take alcohol and then
you are not the same. Immediately a new
personality has come in. Alcohol cannot create a
personality, but it changes your body pattern. The
body chemistry is changed With the change of the
body chemistry, the mind has to change its pattern
and when the mind changes pattern a new
personality has come in.
I have heard one of the oldest Chinese parables,
that once it happened a bottle of whisky fell down
from a table # just by accident; a cat might have
jumped. The bottle was broken and the whisky was
spilled all over the floor. Three mice in the night
lapped the whisky. One mouse immediately said,
"Now, I am going to the king, to the palace, to put
him right in his place." The other said, "I am not
worried about kings. I am myself going to be the
emperor of the whole earth." And the third said,
"Do whatsoever you like, you fellows. I am going
upstairs to make love to the cat."
The whole personality has changed # a mouse
thinking of making love to a cat? It can happen; it
happens every day. Whatsoever you eat changes
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