And in case that meaning is rather nebulous, it means that you should have the wisdom to know that creatures have a basic nature and will follow their basic instincts.
Humans are made to eat meat, to choose otherwise is certainly a valid choice, but only one option. I choose one, you choose another and we will bring balance to the world
No, humans are not made to eat meat. They are omnivorous, they can choose whether to eat meat or eat fruit, veg, nuts. Just as they can choose to have sex or not sex, or do good or do evil.
The dharma of the human being is unique because it has a characteristic that the scorpian is missing and that its ability for creativity and free will. The human being can reflect on its thoughts and act according and creatively, and thus it has access to higher spiritual faculties. The spirit sees what the scorpian and crocodile does not, that all beings are part of the same divine essence and all of them are on a journey to return to the supreme divine.
I think if you were really honest with yourself and consulted the divine spirit within it would found the killing of its creatures repugnant. I certainly have felt the presence of the divine in animals, such as my pet dog, and trust me if anybody tried to harm my dog I would defend him with the same intensity as I would defend a human child.
Consuming flesh is consuming highly dense food, which requires a lot of energy and effort of the human body to digest to extract out the nutrients and this simply increases the quality of tamas(ineria and heaviness) further grounding us into body-consciousness. The energy that we receive is a substandard energy which has been recycled many times. The primary source of the energy is the nourishing energy of the sun and the earth in fruit, veg, dairy and nuts. This gets consumed by herbivores and then part of it is converted into flesh which is more dense energy. The carnivore then eats the herbivore and the energy of the flesh gets converted into even more dense flesh for the carinivore. At this point if the human eats the carinovore they are consuming the lowest and thereby the most densest amount of energy. And if we take it to the extreme if the human eats another human than that is the most densest and lowest energy possible(extremely high tamas) and it completely reflects in the savage behaviour of the cannibal.
I think I have a good point here as people feel the lightest when they eat fruit and veg and heaviest when they consume flesh. Isn’t it also interestingly how unpopular carnivorous hardcore red meat is amongst humans? Thus logic dictates to me that if I want the most freshest, lightest and highest in natural energy I should eat fruit, veg, dairy and nuts. It will increase the qualitiy of sattva in the body which is needed to break away from body-consciousness and move into soul-consciousness. This is why many Yogis advise you to observe vegetarian diets, especially if you are desirous of attaining the highest goals of Yoga, the union with divinity. And as spirit finds the killing of its creatures repugnant I can see why flesh-eaters will struggle on the path.
