A New Look at Eating From the
Fruitarian Network. . .Not So Austere As It Sounds

A Hinduism Today reader submits this interesting item from the Fruitarian Network

We thank you for the wonderful article on vegetarianism by
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami. Perhaps the most Hindu of diets if
fruitarian, since the word Hindu is from the Sanskrit hin (violence) du
(away from). The Sanskrit word for fruitarian is phalahari (the fruit of
Hari.)The Ramayana says Sri Rama was a fruitarian in the forest for
14 years, as was Sri Krishna and His disciple Mahatma Gandhi. Both the
latter were lactofruitarians. In those days there were no factory farms.
Sri Yukteswar, the guru of Yogananda, wrote The Holy Science with a
chapter on fruitarian diet and a comparative analysis of the anatomies
of frugivores with those of carnivorous cats. In reading this book
American actor Dennis Weaver several decades ago became a vegetarian.
Sri Sathya Sai Baba has said "Why pluck a flower and hasten its
death? and in July of this year stated that even
insects have attachment to their families. This is not as austere as
it sounds, for anything given to us by a plant, tree, bush or vine is a
fruit. This includes nuts, seeds, corn, peas, beans, squash, tomatoes,
cucumbers, and in some cases grains. Chandra Bose was knighted by the
Queen of England for his laboratory proof of plant consciousness, and
Isaac Tigrett the founder of the Hard Rock Cafes, who sold them upon
becoming a vegetarian, has the rights to the book The Secret Life of
Plants. Leonardo Da Vinci, the Westerner, has references only to
eating fruitarian products in his notebooks. We have a website on 108
reasons to be fruitarian. It is at www.acorn.net/fruitarian. Another
website 38 reasons not to mow your lawn is at www.acorn.net/av in the
reforestation file. Om sarvabhutananda Neelakanta Swaha. May Lord
Shiva the drinker of all negative karma give bliss to all beings.
Saiom Shriver ab514@acorn.net
PO Box 80232
Akron Ohio 44308 USA

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