A London youth showed Swamishri a doctor’s prescription saying that he should eat eggs. “The doctors will tell you and so will your friends,” Swamishri retorted. “Look at me, I don’t take meat and I’m still alive! No one is dying! Our rishis lived in the Himalayas with half-naked bodies and lived for thousands of years. Do you know this? Western culture wants to change us, it wants us to forget our culture, and so gives such advice. There is so much else to eat. Take milk and ghee. They are more nutritious than eggs and build the body. If someone cuts your body, will it not pain? Don’t these animals suffer? These Europeans stayed 150 years in India, did they adopt any of our ways? Here take a vow... We’ll have to safeguard our heritage!” He poured a little water into the youth’s right palm eliciting a promise from him to stop eating meat.

“Do not eat meat”, Bapa never tires of telling devotees. It does not mean just beef, but includes all types of flesh of all animals. Fish, seafood and eggs are included in the meat category. God has gifted man with the earth that is bountiful in fruit, grain, roots and vegetables. Where is the need to kill an animal for food? Should such slaughter be performed? The Western world promotes eating meat in the name of health! Does this mean that the rest of the world is unhealthy?”