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Dandwat pranaam to all the prabhujis and matajis.
I am a 14year old boy living in Tripura,India. I was born in a bengali family and everyone here eats non veg. They cannot even go one day without eating non veg. I am a teenager so my parents force me to eat non veg.I tried to refuse to eat and but they forcefully opened my mouth and put the meat in. I am struggling very much. Due to this condition, I am also being deviated from the path of bhakti. I am not independent so I cannot even cook myself a meal. If i try then my parents scold me very much. I want to leave non veg but I am not able to do so. I also chant praying to krsna to forgive me. Should I leave non veg after I become independent ? Please help me to leave this non veg. Will Krsna forgive me for my present condition. I request everyone to help me.
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Try to have a calm and honest conversation with your parents about why you want to stop eating non-vegetarian food. Explain that this decision is important to you because of your spiritual beliefs and your commitment to Bhakti. You can play slope game to relieve stress with your family.
You have a good heart. You don't want it, but you are forced by others to eat.
So, you will not incur any sin. But they who force you will incur sin.
You translate the discourse by mahathma Bhishma, take a printout and tell everyone to read it.
It is difficult for them to giveup immediately. They will change slowly.
For those, who are addicted to meat, they can replace meat with items such as mealmaker, paneer etc.,
Then, it will be easier to giveup.
Dear Friend,
This is the discussion between Yudhishthira and Bhishma regarding meat eating.
Yudhishthira said, 'Alas, those cruel men, who, discarding diverse kinds of food, covet only flesh, are really like great Rakshasas! Alas, they do not relish diverse kinds of cakes and diverse sorts of potherbs and various species of Khanda with juicy flavour so much as they do flesh! My understanding, for this reason, becomes stupefied in this matter
"Bhishma said
Abstention from injury is the highest religion. It is, again, the highest penance. It is also the highest truths from which all duty proceeds. Flesh cannot be had from grass or wood or stone. Unless a living creature is slain, it cannot be had. Hence is the fault in eating flesh.
He who purchases flesh slays living creatures through his wealth. He who eats flesh slays living creatures through such act of eating. He who binds or seizes and actually kills living creatures is the slaughterer. Those are the three kinds of slaughter, each of these three acts being so. He who does not himself eat flesh but approves of an act of slaughter becomes stained with the sin of slaughter.
There is no food, O scorcher of foes, that is superior to flesh. But, O delighter of the Kurus, the merits are great that attach to men that abstain from it.
There is not the slightest doubt that a person by eating such meat goes to Hell. They that are covetous of meat are seen to be repeatedly cooked in the uterus in such a state of helplessness. Attaining to diverse kinds of birth, they are cooked in the hell called Kumbhipaka
That man who having eaten meat gives it up afterwards, acquires merit by such an act that is so great that a study of all the Vedas or a performance, O Bharata, of all the sacrifices, cannot bestow its like.
Pls read and share following links to everyone. You will definitely giveup meat eating after reading this.
reference : 1. https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/the-mahabharata-mohan/d/doc...
2. https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/the-mahabharata-mohan/d/doc...
Thankyou Prabhuji for the reply!
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Welcome dear,
I think two things are very important.
1. Avoiding meat eating.
2. Avoiding watching sexual content in media.
I think second one is much more difficult, especially in the modern world.
So, one must never be alone. Try to avoid media. don't look at movie posters etc.,