One Who Is Spiritual Must Be Very Careful About What He Eats

One becomes, what he eats every day. On the path of spiritual development it is very important to become a vegetarian in the first 10 years of study and meditation. Also, a consumer of meat can achieve enlightenment, but it is like someone would climb a mountain with a heavy bag of stones. When you want to reach its peak you must become very light. When someone who is not yet ready for it consumes meat it will drag his whole consciousness down into physicality. When enlightened spiritual masters ate meat they could process its energy, but when we eat meat it draws us down to the level of the animals. But we want to go beyond the level of the animals.

When we're not yet ready to work with the desires of the physical body, we must restrict everything, that strengthens our own corporeality. That's why someone at least until a certain spiritual degree should become a vegetarian. The only thing an animal does is to eat, sleep and procreate. Most humans are not much different from it. But when we approach the spiritual pathway we want to reverse the direction of the energy. At a normal human being it constantly flows downwards into the arms, feet, and genitals. Someone who exercises meditation his hands become cold and his head warm, because the energy now begins to flow towards the spiritual realm. That's why people report, that they sometimes get very hungry after reading the Zohar, because the energy of the food we digested now flows into the astral dimension. There it gets transformed into thought forms. Someone who meditates and studies the Zohar will learn gradually to use 100% of his brain instead of the very few percentages of the normal person.

Someone who is spiritual should be very aware of what ideas and thoughts certain nourishment create. Instead of giving fixed rules here, what to eat, we should give people only a light of consciousness, that they can decide on their own what serves them best.

Food and drinks contain sparks of light. That's why we shouldn't chatter too much while eating and should accompany the meal with a blessing or a prayer to connect the finite energy of food with the infinite energy of the spiritual domain. So food will serve us as a provider of spiritual light instead of being something that makes us heavy and tired. One should learn to listen on his soul, what food is nourishing it in absolutely the best way. Then someone can't make anything wrong on the spiritual pathway.