CORRECT EATING -- PART THREE

There is much that Humanity can eat in the Vegetable Kingdom, but today your scientists are just becoming aware of the fact that even the Vegetable Kingdom has feelings.

The Vegetable Kingdom

Tests have now been carried out, the results of which cannot be ignored. These show, for example, that plants react to human emotions. If you curse a plant it does not flourish as much as one that is loved, for the elemental kingdoms responsible for growth in the Vegetable Kingdom respond to Humanity´s thoughts. You should, therefore, be careful with regard to what you eat in the Vegetable Kingdom for anything which you have to destroy entirely, such as root vegetables, should not be eaten, for within the stems of all vegetables there is white blood, or sap, flowing.

The Vegetable Kingdom is on a completely different level of vibration and evolution to the Human and Animal Kingdoms, but it too is developing and evolving on the surface of the Earth. It reacts to Humanity´s vibrations, to how Humanity lives its life and to how Humanity treats it. Obviously, if a sacrifice has to be made then far better it be something of the Vegetable Kingdom than of the Animal Kingdom, but if it is possible it is better not to have to ask for the sacrifice at all.

Overpopulation

Humanity should be able to live from the fruits of the trees and bushes of the Earth. Of course, I appreciate that it is not always possible to live entirely on fruit for, depending upon your position on the globe, at some times of the year fruit is just not obtainable. Moreover, because of the way in which it has abused the gift of reproduction the world is overpopulated, and Humanity now lives in parts of the globe where it should not be living. Originally, Humanity lived only in warm climes where fruit was always available.

Refining The Body

For those of you who would like to begin the process of refining your bodies the first step is to start by giving up the flesh of animals. To give up eating flesh at once and become a fruitarian would be foolish, for your bodies would not like it. Your bodies always respond best to gradual change. Just as when you are trying to cut down on the amount of food you eat you should not immediately starve yourselves for two or three days but should begin by cutting down the amount gradually, so, similarly, you should become vegetarian gradually as well. You should begin by limiting yourselves to eating meat only once or twice a week and then, after a period of months, stop eating meat altogether whilst still eating fish and poultry.

When you have achieved this then, as you think fit, begin to give up poultry and fish, with the whole process perhaps taking a year to eighteen months. As you gradually change so your bodies will change with you and you will find that they will become lighter, and that you will become more aware. Those of you who possess psychic powers will find yourselves becoming more psychic. Those of you who draw on inspiration for art, for science or for literature will find yourselves becoming more inspired. Those of you who are healers and wish to heal will find that you are better able to do so. You will be tuning your bodies to a finer vibration

Vitamins & Nutriments

When you have stopped eating the flesh of animals you will then be faced with a choice of eating vegetables and fruit. So as to get the maximum benefit I must say here that it is important that whenever possible you eat only raw foods, foods which are uncooked; for when you cook, you destroy much of the nutritional value of the food. Cooking may make food taste nicer. Cooking may blend various ingredients into a succulent dish to appease your jaded tastes but, as I said when I began this lecture, the whole purpose and importance of eating food is to sustain your bodies, not to gratify your lower selves. If you eat only raw food you will find that not only will you eat less, but you will eat better. You will have a greater supply of the necessary vitamins and nutriments for your bodies. You will find that you eat less because you need less, and you will find that your bodies become lighter and finer.

Begin To Control

Do not condemn this way of eating if you have never tried it. If you feel that you would like to begin then make the effort, make the sacrifice for after all, what are you doing? You are beginning to control your physical bodies in a very small way. You are beginning to say that not only will you not eat the flesh of animals, that you will not be a party to the destruction of one of God´s Kingdoms and to all the suffering that goes with it, but that you will begin to control what is going into your physical bodies, the bodies that are the temples of your souls. You will begin to eat only the finest foods, the natural foods, which are the best foods for your bodies. You will begin to respond to your souls rather than to the manufacturers with their tempting advertisements for their various brands of what, for the spiritual person, is usually undesirable food.

Return of Vegetarianism

There are many people living in the World today who are vegetarians. Every day the number increases as more and more people adopt the ways of their Creator. Today, especially amongst the young, the souls of the Aquarian Age, vegetarianism is prevalent, for some of the old souls of Atlantis are returning to the way of life that they have known before. Vegetarianism will become more universal with the next years, for as the destruction of the cataclysm takes place, as much of the Animal Kingdom is destroyed, so Humanity will not be able to have meat and it will have to look elsewhere. If all of you have prepared yourselves by already taking that step, by already being able to live on one fifth of the food that you now consume, of being able to live only on the fruits of this Earth, you will then have taken a great step towards surviving the cataclysm to come.

This article is from "The Fantastic Teachings of Ramala".

CORRECT EATING -- PART TWO

If you wish to raise the vibration of your body, you should eat only the finest foods, the foods of the highest vibration.

A Few Guidelines

So far we have not discussed the question of what you should, or should not, eat. Each of you will have to decide according to your own consciousness how you should change your eating habits. What would be right for one would be wrong for another, and in this article I can do no more than point out a few guidelines. If you wish to raise the vibration of your body, you should eat only the finest foods, the foods of the highest vibration, which are to be found mainly in the fruit kingdom -- the fruits, nuts and berries which exist in profusion upon your planet. Therefore it is desirable, and note that I say only desirable, that a spiritual person should become a strict vegetarian, that they should eat only the fruits of the Earth.

If you are fully aware of life around you, if you have evolved to the point of consciousness when you do not wish needlessly to destroy anything, you will want to eat only of the fruits of the land, for by doing so not only will you be destroying nothing but you will also be aiding in the dispersal of the seeds of the fruits around the land.

All Life Is Sacred

It is not necessary, or desirable, that you should destroy or in any way use the Animal Kingdom for food. That is not to say that you cannot do it, for you do today, but as you are the most evolved being on this Earth you should not have to ask the Animal Kingdom to make that sacrifice. Although the Animal Kingdom does make the sacrifice for you, for that is the nature of life on the Earth, you do not need to eat the flesh of animals. All life is sacred.

You cannot create life and therefore you should not take it. Life is not yours to give and take: it is your Creator´s. Everything on this Earth belongs not to you but to your Creator. You must learn to be responsible for the Animal Kingdom, and as animals are less evolved beings you should look on them with love. You should try to help them for, truly, they look to you for an example.

The Lowest of Vibrations

Animals feel pain just as Humanity does. They experience fear just as Humanity does, and the emotions of animals which are killed are held within their bodies. The vibration of fear is a coarsening vibration, and when you consume the flesh of animals you are partaking of that vibration. Furthermore, all the diseases of an animal and the polluted food it has consumed are contained within its flesh, hence when you eat of that flesh you are partaking of those diseases and of that pollution. So, from the food aspect, the flesh of animals is the lowest of vibrations, and if you are to walk the spiritual path you should avoid it at all costs for it will degrade your body spiritually.

You are, no doubt, aware of the nutritional values that allegedly come from eating meat, but all of them can be found in other foods if you will but look. Because when it first incarnated on Earth unevolved Humanity did not know any better there was some excuse for it killing animals for food, but today Humanity should be much more aware. You could find the correct foods to eat, and you could cultivate them if you so desired, but you do not, for much money has now been invested in the breeding and production of meat for the table.

Linked To The Creator

I ask all of you who do eat meat just to consider, just to realize, what it is that you are doing. You are eating the flesh of a living being. Maybe the animal is not so advanced as a human being, but it is still linked to your Creator for it has red blood flowing through it, and anything that has red blood flowing in its veins is with soul. Look upon animals as your less evolved brothers and sisters who need your help, your guidance, your example, your love. They do not need to be slaughtered by you. As you sit at your table think of what you are eating, think of the pain that the animal went through, and consider whether its slaughter was really necessary. Remember that you are taking on its karma, its fear and its animalistic instincts, and that you are absorbing its many impurities caused by the use of Humanity´s drugs and chemicals, which do so much harm to the physical body.

Humanity, of course, also eats the birds of the air and the fishes of the sea. Their point of evolution varies according to the individual species, but they all have red blood flowing through them. No matter what biologists may tell you, birds and fishes do feel pain to various degrees. I repeat, all life is sacred, and Humanity can and should live without the sacrifice of the birds or the fishes.

A Higher Vibration

You may say that it is not possible to live without eating flesh of some description. This is not true. Your "experts" today might convince you that this is the case, that Humanity has been a meat-eater since time immemorial, but that again is not true. There are many people today who are vegetarians, who live quite happily, quite healthily, who produce beautiful children and thus destroy this myth. Indeed, if you are vegetarians you should be healthier, you should have healthier children, you should be more aware, you should be of a higher vibration. You should be able to enjoy every aspect of life far more than your meat-eating friends around you.

Part Three follows....

This article is from "The Fantastic Teachings of Ramala".

CORRECT EATING -- PART ONE

As with all the other organs of the body, the stomach is controlled ultimately by the mind.

Vehicle of the Spirit

One of the charateristics of the human physical body is that it needs to be sustained with matter in order to replace the parts and constituents of the body which change every twenty-four hours. Every day, therefore, you eat and drink to sustain your body. The physical body is the vehicle of the spirit. While it resides in matter the spirit dwells in the left ventricle of the heart; that is where the physical body houses the spirit whilst it is present on the Earth. It is important, therefore, that throughout its life the body is cared for and sustained according to its needs so that it in no way hinders the evolution and destiny of the spirit.

When you feel hungry and you want to eat it is the mind that will control where you eat, what you eat and how you eat. An unevolved person, one who has not established the control and discipline of the mind, will not control their stomach and their eating habits. When they feel that they want to eat, they eat. They do not particularly care when they eat, what they eat or how they eat. All they know is that they have the desire to eat and that this desire must be satisfied.

An evolved person, one who uses their mind to control their bodily functions, who is aware of their body and of what is good or bad for it, of what they should or should not eat, of when they should or should not eat, of how they should or should not eat, will exercise discipline in this respect in order to eat correctly.

All Matter Vibrates

You will recognize, therefore, that the way in which a person eats is really a matter of soul evolution, of soul wisdom. A soul that has only recently begun to incarnate on the Earth from the planet below yours in evolution will eat very crudely, whereas a great soul, a highly evolved Master, will eat very finely. You may think that all human bodies are similar, but they are not. They are all made of physical matter, but within the frequency range of matter there are many rates of vibration. All matter vibrates, and it would be true to say that the body of an unevolved soul vibrates at a lower rate than that of an evolved soul. The higher the rate of vibration the more a person can control their body and use the Natural Laws of the Universe to lead their life on Earth. You have the example of the Nazarene who, knowing the Law of Levitation, could walk upon the water.

Self-gratification

What I am to say about correct eating will obviously not have a universal appeal and, therefore, according to your consciousnesses, you will either accept or reject it. As the basic reason for eating is to keep the physical body in a perfect condition so that it may be of service to the spirit, any form of eating which does not contribute to this objective is incorrect.

If you overeat, if you eat foods which are detrimental to your bodies, or even destroy parts of your bodies, that is very foolish. Many of you know that some of the foods, which you eat are harmful to your bodies, yet you still continue to eat them because your jaded tastes demand that you do so. It is purely self-gratification: you like the taste, or you like the quantity, and so you eat to please that lower self. Nevertheless, you should eat only to sustain your physical bodies in a perfect condition.

Develop Your Consciousness

The vibration of your physical body is determined by your point of evolution. As you develop your conciousness within, so the vibration of your body will change. Remember that if you are to increase your vibratory rate, if you are to refine your physical instrument, you must first refine the matter that goes into your body. There are only three substances which your body takes in: air, fluids and food. Although all three are important from the point of view of the correct funtioning of your body, food is particularly important because the higher the vibration of the food you eat the greater its spiritual quality and its quality in matter and the more it will help you to increase the vibratory rate of your own body.

Change Your Eating Habits

Those of you who seek to walk the path, who seek to advance spiritually and to be of service to Humanity, to exemplify the Christ, must be aware of the discipline necessary in this respect. If you cannot master your stomachs then you cannot master your personalities, your lower selves. You must begin with the physical aspects of your body before you can begin to control the reflection of your soul consciousness, your personality. The first rung on the ladder is to become the master of your physical body and of what you eat. In the Age in which you live, where everything is mass-produced, where industry is geared to produce not what Humanity should eat but what industry decides is profitable, it is difficult to change your eating habits, but that is what you must do.

Part Two follows....

This article is from "The Fantastic Teachings of Ramala"