Consciousness & meat eating

In the highest state of consciousness meat eating is not possible. And those who want the highest state of consciousness should remain aware of this. .....

“ Remember the difference, the difference is fundamental. I also say drop eating meat, but not because you will go to hell if you eat meat, not because if you eat meat it will be violence. I have no concern with these small things. 

If everyone who eats meat goes to hell then Jesus must be in hell. Ramakrishna Paramahansa must also be in hell -- can a Bengali exist without fish? Without fish and boiled rice they cannot even exist. 

Ramakrishna Paramahansa kept on eating fish, he must be in hell.

These are trivial things. They have no value. But this much is certainly proven by them: that Ramakrishna Paramahansa's sensitivity never became as deep as it could have. A small veil remained. His heart did not become as full of love as it could have. A little soot remained. Not that he went to hell, but there could have been another experience of beauty which he remained deprived of.

Not that Jesus will go to hell. But there remained a little something missing in his understanding of life, a thorn remained. That thorn too could have come out, should have come out. And it seems to me that if Jesus had lived longer... he died young, was murdered... then perhaps the thorn would have come out. He was young. And where he was born they were all meat eaters. If he had grown a little older, his awareness had deepened, if his experience of the presence of god had become more and more solid, then certainly he would have dropped eating meat. In the ultimate state, when god starts appearing everywhere, it is impossible to think of destroying someone's life for food.

So I don't say it because meat eating is a sin, that in consequence of this sin you will be suffering in hell. 

Rather I say it because eating meat will decrease your sensitivity. It will take away the subtlety of your sensitivity. 

The pure music that could arise from within you will not be able to arise. You have put such thick and coarse strings on your veena. There will be music, song will arise, but you have put on thick, rough, cheap strings, when fine, subtle, aristocratic strings were available. You have mistreated your veena. Not that you will fall into hell, because you have put coarse strings on your veena.

And note, don't fall into the illusion that when you eat meat you have killed someone. No one can die. Hence it is not a sin that you have killed something. 

Death does not exist here. There is no way to kill anything. You only took away the body of a being. That being will take a new body. The question is not of killing, the question is can you take its body? 

The question is for you. That being will take a new body, take a new womb. No one dies. Krishna says, "Na hanyate hanyamane sharire." The soul does not die when the body is killed. But the question is for you. 

You have shown insensitivity. There is not heartfulness inside of you. You remain a little stonelike, you are not soft. And if you are not soft your inner lotus will not blossom. Or will remain half blossomed. Or one or two petals will remain unblossomed.

In the highest state of consciousness meat eating is not possible. And those who want the highest state of consciousness should remain aware of this. 

“OSHO

Death is Divine , Chapter 7 - Wander alone (7 October 1978 am in Buddha Hall.
Translated from Hindi. )