We are Trustees, Not Consumers! || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Hollow Veganism || Acharya Prashant, in Conversation (2022)

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00:00Humans are in some sense superior because we are closer towards enlightenment, so what is your thought on that?

00:07The one who is superior in the spiritual tradition is vested with a lot of responsibility, like the superior one in the family.

00:15What will the superior one in the family do? Eat up the small ones or bring them up? That's the answer.

00:22I advise specifically the Muslim community when they say that it is mentioned in the Holy Quran

00:27that all the little creatures and all these, they are made for man. I ask them what does it mean, made for man?

00:35It means that they are made for the compassion of man. They are made as the responsibility of man to take care of them.

00:43We are the trustee and the trustee is not supposed to consume what he has been entrusted with, right?

00:48You are supposed to take care of them, not assault them, not kill them, not consume them, not exploit them.