Ahar or Diet: Selections from “The Wheel of Life” by Sant Kirpal Singh Ji (vegetarian), Part 2 of 2

Today, we will continue to present to you excerpts from one of His books, “The Wheel of Life.” This book explains in detail the theory of karma (action and reaction), the way to escape from the endless cycle of transformation, and how important our diet is to our spiritual pursuit.

“Will thinking person s just stop a while to cogitate on and realize the true position of man? Why is he so proud to call himself, or to be called, the noblest of creatures, the roof, and crown of the creation? Whither is man moving headlong? Is he not standing on the brink of a terrific precipice, with an extremely sharp declivity, ready to topple down at any moment? He has, by his conduct, exposed himself recklessly to chance winds of Nature’s vengeance. Hourly he stands in danger of being swept to the deepest depths of physical and moral annihilation.”

“Nature has one other propelling wheel working in this material world: the Law of Evolution. It provides that all living beings pass from one position to another. As they travel from one order of creation to the next higher, each being has a separate value from the lower one. The basis of determining the face value, as well as the intrinsic value, is matter and intellect. The more valuable the constituents of matter present in a being in prominent form, the more the intellect and the more the value of the being. Saints apply this law in the solution of the problem of diet for man. Whether he heeds it or not, Saints place this law before man so that he may reform his diet and avoid, as much as possible, a heavy load of karmic chains in which he is inextricably held fast.”

“Each kind of diet has its own inherent effect on man, detrimental to the acquisition of the highest aim: self-knowledge and God-knowledge. Least value is placed on roots, vegetables, and fruits in which the element of water alone is active and predominates, while the remaining four elements are altogether in a dormant state. Thus, karmically considered, the vegetarian and fruitarian diet, in fact, constitutes the least pain-producing diet, and man, by partaking of these, contracts the least karmic debt.”