Have been feeling very low this week. Ophelia passed through and everything just feels to be a mess (my life included) I want to take everything to the dump and just move to someplace clean (this feeling is not all because of the storm)
Anyway, I forced myself to go out on the porch and sweep the debris away. As I was sweeping, I remembered the vivid dream where Mother was sweeping and telling me that things would turn out all right.
And I just had this strong thought to CLEAN MY OWN HOUSE. And I felt deeply that this was a part of the dream too. The sweeping, I mean, that this was a message also.
And now, my intentions are, to clean my house. Symbolically and literally.
Because my mind is in a talkative mood today, I'm going to reply to my own message.
If anyone can help me sort through this, it would be appreciated.
One part of CLEANING MY HOUSE is vegetarianism.
It is my desire and also need to be vegetarian. I was so for 15 years, but in the last 5 have been eating fish and chicken. I rationalize by saying that if I did not eat fish or chicken, then in social situations, I would go hungry, as this area of the South, we are strong meat eaters. (I'm sure that in India, vegetarians do not have this problem). What is to be done?
Am I in command of my house? I can eat the chicken and perhaps a part of me enjoys it, but another part in my stomach is turning upside down in revolt.
When Mother did not want to cook the fish, the Master told her to cook the fish.
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RE: "I rationalize by saying that if I did not eat fish or chicken, then in social situations, I would go hungry, as this area of the South, we are strong meat eaters. (I'm sure that in India, vegetarians do not have this problem). What is to be done?"
RE: Vegetarianism
Swami Vivekananda had this to say about vegetarianism:
"About vegatarian diet I have to say this - first, my Master was a vegetarian, but if he was given meat offered to the Goddess, he used to hold it up to his head. The taking of life is undoubtedly sinful, but so long as vegetable food is not made suitable to the human system through progress in chemistry, there is no alternative but meat-eating. So long as man shall have to live a RAjasika (active) life under circumstances like the present, there is no other way except through meat-eating."
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I takes courage to sweep away the debris and start life over again.
At least you still have a porch and a house left, to clean up!
Whenever you feel 'down', just think of theose poor folks on
the Gulf Coast, who have lost everything, and are living in crowded
shelters.....with no home or job to return to.
They will all eventually put their lives back together again, with
the grace of the Divine Mother.
Re: Re: Musings on Mother after the Storm (Ophelia)
Hello Rosemary !
You say it is your "desire and need" to be veggie again. Is there really a problem ? I would have thought your genuine friends would be more than happy to cook something vegetarian for you ! From what I've heard, the Southern states are very hospitable..
As someone who has had alcohol 'problems' - but is also a vegetarian, I have to give a double warning, as it were.
Ofcourse it's your choice. Just felt like adding my tuppence worth !
My mother is very accomadating to my vegetarianism when the family gathers at her home. Restaurants, receptions and buffets can be hard, as Southerners generally cook their vegetables in meat grease. So it's ususally salad or nothing. I think the issue is really more like being so different from others, and always having to explain myself, over and over. A loneliness.
There use to be an Indian restaurant an hour away, that I would go to when I wanted delicious vegetarian, but I always had to go alone, as no one shares my enthusiasm. That is closed now, and the drive for food is over 2 hours. So, I make do.
