A Plant-Based Diet and its Benefits
Sadhguru explores the benefits of a plant-based diet and how it can be easily implemented in one’s life.
Sadhguru: What kind of food you eat should depend not on what you think about it, or on your values and ethics, but on what the body wants. Food is about the body. Ask the body with what kind of food it is really happy. Try different foods and see how your body feels after eating it. If your body feels very agile and energetic, that means the body is happy. If the body feels lethargic and needs to be pumped up with caffeine or nicotine to stay awake, the body is not happy.
If you listen to your body, it will clearly tell you with what kind of food it is happy. But right now, you are listening to your mind. Your mind keeps lying to you all the time. Hasn’t it lied to you before? Today it tells you, “this is it.” Tomorrow it makes you feel like a fool for what you believed yesterday. Do not go by your mind. You just have to learn to listen to your body.
It takes a certain amount of attention to learn to listen to your body. Once you have that, you will know what to eat and what not to eat. Every creature knows. The human species is supposed to be the most intelligent on the planet, but we do not even know what to eat.
You should eat the kind of food with which your body is most at ease, where it does not have to struggle to get nourishment. Whether you want to do your business properly or study properly or do any activity properly, it is extremely important that your body is at ease. We are not looking at it from a moral standpoint. We are just looking at what is suitable for the system – we try to eat foods which would make you comfortable in the body.
How to Become a Vegetarian
In terms of the quality of food that is entering you, definitely vegetarian food is far better for the system than non-vegetarian food. Just experiment and see, when you eat vegetarian food in its live form, what a difference it will make. The idea is to eat as much live food as possible – whatever can be consumed in its raw, uncooked form. A live cell has everything to sustain life. If you consume a live cell, you will see the sense of health in your system will be very different from anything that you have known. When we cook food, we destroy the life in it. Eating food after this process of destruction does not give the same amount of life energy to the system. But when you eat live food, it brings a different level of aliveness in you. If one brings in at least thirty to forty percent live food into their diet – sprouts, fruit, and whatever vegetables that can be consumed in a live condition – you will see, it will sustain the life within you very well.
When it comes to intelligence, what is happening in a single molecule of DNA is so complex that your whole brain cannot figure it out.
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