Meals with Vegetables (Compiled without the use of meat, fish or eggs)

Sant Mat, or the Path of the Masters, represents the fundamental Truth which is at the root of all religions. This lies in the perception of the Love of God, which radiates throughout all creation and manifests itself within an individual as Sound, or music, and is thus known as the 'Audible Life Stream', or 'Sound Current'. The perception of this Divine Power is dependent upon a Perfect Living Master making Him- self known to us and connecting us to this Sound Current (Initiation). At death, the soul leaves the body and, guided by the Master, merges into the ocean of God's love, radiating in the form of the 'Word', or 'Sound Current'.

An essential prerequisite of this Path is abstinence from all food containing meat, fish or eggs and alcohol and drugs, or any products derived there from.

There are two reasons for this: firstly, the path of meditation demands peace of mind and these products have a subtle, but profoundly disturbing, effect. This becomes obvious after vegetarianism has been practised for a period. Secondly, the law of 'Karma', or cause and effect, should deter us from causing suffering to the Lord's creation. We reap as we sow and actions performed in this life, good or ill, are inexorably returned to us in a subsequent one. The killer and the hunter of this incarnation are the killed and the hunted of the next.

This apparently endless circle - the wheel of birth and death - cannot be stopped. However, by the Grace of the Lord, souls may be released from it, as promised by all Perfect Masters down the ages of man's history.