Animal Flesh is not a Natural Diet of Humanity

The whole creation of the world consisting of 84 million different species, which includes inert matter, plant Kingdom and animal Kingdom that render the service to the mankind, which has got divine wisdom to realize the Supreme being within. In fact, the human being is an incarnation of the Divine, if he follows the holy instruction of the same. A man is born to realize the Divine within, by meditating on His Divine Name and virtues. Due to his divine wisdom, man is considered to be the superior most, among all the species of this Universe. All the species of the Universe, including inert matter are ordained to serve the human being according to the Divine Law, so that they can also improve their fate for achieving the ultimate divine goal through evolution. As such, according to the divine law, it is the destined duty of human being to render service and utilize the natural resources according to the will of Divine Lord so that natural ecological balance is maintained according to the natural rules and regulation designed by the Supreme Being.

According to the Divine Law, inert matter of the Universe is destined to serve and support its superior class i.e. plant Kingdom, which in turn is destined to serve and support the animal Kingdom, including human beings according to the Divine law. In other words, inert matter renders food to plant Kingdom, which in turn provides the food to the animal Kingdom including human beings. The food of the whole of animal Kingdom including human being is vegetarian, which is derived from plant Kingdom. But there are exceptions in the animal Kingdom like cat and lizard families, which sustain on eating flesh food of other animal species. According to this divine principle, God has created the physical frame of all these species accordingly.

1. The skeletal frame of the carnivores is different from the herbivores. Carnivores are provided with sharp claws, whereas the herbivores have no such provision.
2. Vegetarian animals including man have been provided with plenty of pores in their skin for sweating, which keeps the body cool, whereas the carnivores do not have pores. In their case, cooling of the body is only achieved by taking quick breaths through the tongue.
3. Carnivores have sharp teeth to tear the flesh, whereas herbivores do not have such type of sharp teeth, but normal ones through which they can easily chew vegetation.
4. Intestines of carnivores are only three times of their body-length, so that after digesting meat, they excrete the refuse quickly before it turns into poison. Whereas, in herbivores, their intestines are up to twelve times their body length, to completely digest thevegetarian food, discard its remnants through various modes, so that the nutrients of their food are completely absorbed. It is thus amply clear that their bodies are unfit for flesh eating.
5. The saliva producing organs of vegetarians are fully developed, whereas in the carnivores they only have the small organs.
6. The saliva of herbivores is alkaline while in case of carnivores it is acidic. Thus, meat eating by man is clearly violation of the Divine Order, which inflicts diseases.
7. Carnivores have a very strong acidic stomach for complete digestion of flesh and bones, whereas vegetarians are provided with twenty times less dilution of acid for digestion of vegetarian food.
8. If a particular class of living being defies the natural law of food assignment and loots the food assigned for another classification, then this ‘interference’ upsets natural balance with horrible results. For example, the carnivorous wild animals after leaving their normal habitat of the forest start attacking populated towns and cities in search of food. If this were to happen, then the killing of wild animals is justified to ensure the protection of humans and keeping the balance of life cycle. Similarly, if the insects overstep their jurisdiction of assigned food to harm others food, then to reduce their numbers through any means for maintaining the environmental balance is not a sin.

Food grains and vegetables form the natural food for man assigned by the Divine Lord.  Some people argue that even vegetation has got life, and then do we not become sinners by eating them? Here, it is important to clarify that vegetation is not endowed with wisdom unlike animal Kingdom. According to the Divine Law, the vegetation Kingdom has been created to support its superior Kingdom i.e. animal Kingdom. As such the herbivores (animal Kingdom) is to survive by getting food from the plant Kingdom. Hence, whatever is being done according to the Divine Law does not come under the category of sin.

~ Iqbal Singh Ji (Baba),

~ From Sikh Sidhant - An Epitome of Interface for Spiritualism of Humanity

A PIOUS COMMITMENT TO TRANSFORM

The heart of India is still in the villages. If India has to regain its lost glory, it is the villages that need to transform. At times where elders fail, the children show the way. Read the story of one such little village girl, who has transformed the destiny of her village.

Ganga Abloki is a small remote village, around 40 km from Muktsar, in Punjab. There lives a small girl, Gurjot Kaur, with her parents and family in this village. Almost four years back, when Gurjot opened her eyes to this world, she found her grand father, S. Darshan Singh and other male relatives indulged in ominous practices like drinking alcohol. Since she experienced all this since birth, there was actually nothing that Gurjot was worried about. The parents share good cordial relationship.

Gurjot was growing up and as she turned three, it was time to send her to school. There is no school in Ganga Abloki. So, her father decided to search for a good school for the girl, as he wanted his daughter to study and rise in life. His hunt for a good school brought him to Muktsar, where his friends and well-wishers informed him about the only first-class school in the town, the Akal Academy run by The Kalgidhar Trust, Baru Sahib.

Kuldeep Singh visited the school and found it to be up to his expectations. The Academy seemed to have a great potential for the children with modern facilities and outstanding opportunities. He learnt that the school is not only educating the students academically, but also spiritually. The children in the school are learning Gurmukhi and Gurbani. They are being imparted the lessons on moral values also. Apart from this, the school has latest infrastructure, updated curriculum, well-stocked library, modern laboratories and playground.

Everything seemed to be absolutely ideal, and Kuldeep Singh made up his mind to send his daughter to this school only. But there was still a stumbling block. Actually the school was in Muktsar-about 40 km away from his village, and the nearest stoppage of the school bus was 7 km away from Ganga Abloki. He discussed this with the school authorities, who convinced him to drop the child till this stoppage, and the school van will carry her further. WaheGuru motivated the poor fellow and destiny persuaded him to give his acceptance.

Thus Gurjot got admitted to the nursery class in Akal Academy, Muktsar and started preparing to take off in life. In the academy, Gurjot learnt to identify the letters of English, Hindi, and Punjabi, the numbers, and also, Gurbani. She started reciting paath with her class-mates. Although she could actually not read from the Gutka, yet she grasped the recitation while listening to others and humming with them. As a part of her routine in the school, she learnt to recite the paath in the morning, offer prayers before and after the meals and recite paath again at the end of the day.

Gurjot became fond of reciting her prayers regularly. Even on Sundays and holidays, when she was not to the school, she recited her prayers at home. Whenever she took her meals, she always offered her prayers, wherever she used to be. Finding their daughter indulged in Naam Simran, her parents thought that the little fellow might be under some pressure from outside to do so. They tried to convince her that its okay to follow it as part of the school curriculum, but she could take it easy at home. To their surprise, Gurjot not only clarified it to them that she was not under any pressure to recite the paath but also started reciting Gurbani to them. She asked her grandfather to shed his entire alcohol intake and follow the path of Naam Simran to be closer to Wahe Guru. The greatest achievement is that now the grand father has partaken Amrit & has become a real GurSikh. Now S. Darshan Singh inspires others to get baptized.

Initially, Gurjot’s family members were reluctant to change their lifestyle and routine, but soon, when they found a little creature offering her prayers punctually and whole heartedly, they also joined her. Naam simran led Darshan Singh shed all his bad habits. He had now become pious. The family experienced a fresh breeze blowing through the house. Prosperity prevailed all around the family. Darshan Singh was now advising others also to follow him. He started taking his granddaughter to talk to other people of the village and motivate them for Naam Simran.

When the villagers noticed such drastic changes in the family, they were so impressed that they wish to start the same school in their area so that the upcoming generation can be a Guru Nanak’s real children. Gurjot Kaur recites Gurbani path for the whole day & Ardas before & after evening meals also by seeing her Gurjot Kaur’s younger brother who has just turned three years now already know Mool Mantar & Ardas to be recited before & after the meals. He is ready to join the Academy in next session.

The villagers are so impressed by the miracle that has happened due to this little girl that they have decided to donate a piece of land from their property, so that a branch of Akal Academy could be opened within their village and their children don’t waste their precious time in traveling to far off Muktsar.

The youngsters should take a cue from the astonishing Gurjot Kaur and pledge to transform the world around them into a spiritually enlightened one.

~ Deeksha Singh
~ New Delhi, 2nd Oct, '13

KERNELS OF TRUTH

Ushering out of the home where a family was decaying in the clouds of alcohol addiction, Manpreet Kaur born on 20th and relentless effort acting as a pillar for her family toact timely with her guidance of her mother Rajwinder Kaur by focusing that she can pull out her family from poverty and alcohol abuse by taking strongsteps, to plan her future carefully by ensuring right direction and steps to be economically independent. It was with this motion and thought that she joined the Women Empowerment program offered by The Kalgidhar Trust, Baru Sahib in which she was given free education and training to become a teacher with full background and knowledge keeping up with the needs and demand of 21st constant Century Educator.

Today when she looks back on how lucky she was as she not only was the part of first batch of this program at the AIRWE - Akal Institute of Rural Women Empowerment, but she ended well by scoring 70% in her finals and was given a title of top scholar of that batch. This program not only helped her earn a living for her family but gave her a strong base of values which was imbibed in her. She became a propelling factor to give her father Sukhbir Singh a track to come out of the shambles of alcoholism. Though she still finds herself in a situation where she needs to keep a constant watch over her father, she had to switch to a school in Amritsar; she is now working as a coordinator of Junior High School.

As she is been engrained to be a workaholic she finds herself each day striving to keep up with the daily living expenses which are put on her shoulders that she even after school hours takes out time for teaching English to the children living near in her vicinity. She is heavily indebted to the trust which has helped her to come up and be a ray of hope for her family and her sister Rajkanwalpreet by becoming a tireless advocate for all womento work with full passion and energy helping each one in the position to “OPT OUT” by pursuing one’s passions rather than to be “PUSHED OUT” in the daily ordeals of life in which one can easily loose one’s own identity.

The truth is that one needs to DREAM and then transform them into THOUGHTS and then thoughts resulting in ACTION otherwise there is a great degree of chance to be lost in the world full of challenges. In her voice there is full strength and confidence enabling her to have best track record of being a teacher who inspires and ignites imagination and love for learning to her students.

~Ramandeep Singh
~New Delhi, 30th Sep '13

Divinity's Unheralded Course for Mankind

We often hear our elders saying “God's ways are unforeseen and are good for one's own sake.“, which raises a doubt on our mind that what about when something tragic happens, how can that be for our own salutary ? Well, let’s try to construe that from young Suman’s life tale. Young Sumandeep Kaur,18, daughter of Sukhwinder Singh, a farmer & Maljeet Kaur, dwellers of village Sohain Khurd in Amritsar, Punjab infamous for its confinement towards women and their rights. 

Limited on their resources, parents often choose to institutionalize their male child, especially to conserve upon the costs & efforts involved in sending children to schools, which are often not located at a feasible distance. Suman’s was a family of five including a brother & grandmother but unfortunately her mother passed away while she was 16; leaving behind the entire burden of the house upon her father’s shoulders.. "I was very scared when my mother died. It really made me daunted because my mother's sudden demise made me lose my courage. My father's emotional state started deteriorating and he got addicted to alcohol and my family forgot  its faith in daily prayers to god as well" exclaimed Sumandeep with a deplorable face whilst boldly sharing the difficulties she faced in her life that turned upside down after losing her only support, her mother.

In spite of all odds, Sumandeep managed to complete her schooling though PSEB; she always remembered that it was her mother’s dearest wish that she studies well;  after schooling, understanding the financial constraints of the family she got herself enrolled for FREE Teachers Training Skill Development program at Akal Institute of Rural Women Empowerment Baru Sahib to further develop her intellect & start a career of her own. "The idea of getting a chance to receiving education for free, alongside food & accomodation was awe-inspiring. I learnt that the Kalgidhar trust was doing this easpecially for rural girls like me in villages where most people cannot afford education or avoid sending schooling for girls, fearing of wasting money.” , tells us wise Sumandeep Kaur. Having lived through phases of extreme situations, she is affirmed that the world out there is much by  its addiction to drugs or alcohol to realize the importance of imparting education to the youth, perhaps she embarked upon a mission to save & help as many as she can becoming a teacher.

Sumandeep’s family experienced her life changing right before their eyes; her alcoholic father foresweared   to give up drinking to be supportive & aspiring to. The family retroverted to its faith in god & prayer, the son too took baptism following the Sikh “a learner’s” way of life.

Today, Suman strongly believes that all that she aspires to be today was triggered from an act of destiny that once appeared only tragic & unnatural; with time she realized the mystical design the destiny was knitting for her whilst taking away her mother.

As humans, we face  situations where we lose something close to our heart & in no time we fall in limbo. Questioning & doubting God & his doings; failing only, to wait, to hold firm onto our faith in destiny as it eventually unfolds its craft; only to realize that the ways of almighty are far from being empathized by us 'belittled' humankind, that has no other option but patience, perhaps the only key to unravel the  mysteries of divinity.

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~ Harshika Maakan, B.A. (hons.) Economics

~ Rajdhani College, Delhi University, 24th Sep '13

Sharing FREE Smiles… Transformation Story of Apoorva

Apoorva, from a rural village of Himachal, loved looking into mirror putting on her mother’s attire & make-up, who is now silent; traumatized by a fire mishap at her house, that burnt over 50% of her facial skin tissues. Now she does not want to remember her past, she instead tries to find life in her lifeless Barbie doll that looks pretty.

Her parents brought her to Akal Charitable Hospital, run by The Kalgidhar Society, Baru Sahib; upon hearing about the Free Surgical Treatment that was otherwise out of their reach elsewhere, both financially & in terms of distance.

Specialist surgeon’s team from Canada, during their Rainbow Mission organized a FREE camp through the Kalgidhar Society, Baru Sahib; reviewed Apoorva’s critical case carefully & promised the similar looks to her like her Barbie doll.

With the grace of God, wishes and generous support of volunteers & donors, not only Apoorva’s face was restructured through plastic surgery for Free, but also the team of philanthropic enthusiasts, the doctors, helped her gain the lost confidence in herself through counseling sessions, helping her to move out of post-traumatic stress.

“More than the treatment, at first place, it was the assurance of support, that she will be treated is what build up hope in Apoorva’s heart”, told a volunteer therapist who took her counseling session post the surgery.

Cure is certainly brought in by the doctors, but the hope came from the supporters, who played the subtle key role on the road to her recovery; there is a magical psychological recovery process which triggers in both brain & heart, driven by nature, that actually ensure that the treatments work & the patient will adapt to the cure being provided, added the expert.

Step forward now, because someone, somewhere, like Apoorva is waiting for your help & all they need is your little support, support that can spark life into them. 

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~ Deeksha Singh
~ New Delhi, 24th Sep '13