Questioner (Q): Hello Sir. My question is related to your statement that vegans are somewhat distanced from spirituality. I like to think of myself as an intersectional vegan who is not looking at the subject of animal rights in exclusivity, and in fact is trying to understand those from a perspective of human rights as well and how they are intertwined.
I think that vegans are distancing themselves from spirituality because a lot of vegans are not getting the necessary direction that they need, to accept that the whole reason we need to do this is because we are distanced from spirituality. And what is happening is, when you are faced with the reality of the way we treat animals as well as humans, people are losing their faith in humanity itself and to some extent in spirituality.
Acharya Prashant (AP): No, I didnтАЩt get the logic. When you have not even tried spirituality once, how do you lose your faith in it? How do I lose my faith in something? I have not even tried this once in my life and then I say I have no faith in it. How have you lost your faith in it when you never had any faith in the first place?
Q: Because of the way traditions have co-opted religion.
AP: So, have you no information, or knowledge, or access, or insight to see beyond that? There is enough material on the internet to see how spirituality is something way beyond tradition? How is it possible then that a well-read person with access to information technology continues to believe that tradition is spirituality?
