Beyond Beliefs: Vegetarianism and Brahmacharya Under Nature’s Lens

We often hold strong beliefs — that being “pure vegetarian” makes us untouched by life, or that abstaining from sex means practicing Brahmacharya. But Nature tells a different story. Microscopic life in every grain, continuous reproduction in every body — these truths break the myths we cling to. This thought explores the gap between misconception and reality, showing us that Nature alone is the absolute truth, while beliefs are only illusions we choose to live in.

NATURE’S OBSERVATION

Govind Parashar

8/18/20253 min read

🔬 A Small Experiment, A Big Realization

Out of curiosity, I stored some wheat flour and rice for a few days, just to see what would happen.
At first, everything looked perfectly clean. But after a while, I noticed tiny insects moving in the flour and activity inside the rice as well.

That’s when I learned:
insect eggs are already present inside grains.
They are invisible at first, but once warmth and time combine, they hatch and become visible.

🌍 The Hidden Truth

Nature ka ek miracle hai ki humare khane mein microscopic level par life hamesha hoti hai.

  • Fruits aur vegetables mein invisible bacteria aur spores hote hain.

  • Grains aur pulses mein insects ke eggs already hote hain.

  • Even packed food kabhi 100% sterile nahi hota.

👉 To sach yeh hai: chahe hum kitna bhi claim karein ki hum pure vegetarian hain, hum anjane mein microscopic non-veg touch aur consume karte hi hain.

🧩 Misconception vs Reality

  • Misconception: “Main toh pure veg hoon, mere khane mein kabhi non-veg nahi aata.”

  • Reality: Har natural food mein microscopic organisms hote hain — chahe woh eggs ho, bacteria ho, ya fungi.

Cooking aur processing se zyada organisms mar jaate hain, isliye safe ho jaata hai. Lekin iska matlab yeh nahi ki pehle se woh food bilkul blank tha.

✨ A Deeper Reflection

Perhaps that’s why ancient wisdom always said: “Life exists everywhere.”
No matter how hard we try to remain “pure,” we cannot escape nature’s cycle.
We survive only by consuming life in one form or another.

👉 So, next time you look at your plate, remember — this isn’t just food, it’s a miracle of hidden life.

👉 Today’s Realization

“Being vegetarian is a belief, not an absolute reality. Every bite contains a microscopic world, silently alive.” 🌏

🔍 People’s Misconception of Brahmacharya

Aaj kal logon ne “Brahmacharya” ko sirf celibacy = no sex ke equal bana diya hai.
Unke hisaab se:
👉 Agar koi sex nahi karta, toh woh Brahmachari hai.

But sach ye hai ki ye definition bahut chhoti aur incomplete hai.

🌌 What Brahmacharya Actually Means

“Brahmacharya” shabd ka matlab hai — “to move in Brahman” (the ultimate truth / universal consciousness).

  • Brahma = Supreme reality

  • Charya = Conduct / Way of life

Iska matlab hua: apni life ko aise jeena jisme tumhari energy, thoughts, and actions higher truth ki taraf aligned ho.

🌱 Nature’s Law of Continuous Reproduction

  • Wheat flour ke case mein humne dekha: ek daana “dead” lagta hai, but andar microscopic life hoti hai, jo right condition milte hi reproduce karti hai.

  • Waise hi humans bhi: humare body ke andar billions of micro-organisms, bacteria, cells har second divide hote rehte hain.

  • Matlab chahe insaan sex na bhi kare, reproduction toh apne andar hamesha chal raha hai — cells divide ho rahe hain, DNA replicate ho raha hai, gut bacteria multiply kar rahe hain, blood cells nayi life create kar rahe hain.

👉 Humari existence hi ek continuous reproductive activity par tikki hai.

🌿 Redefining Brahmacharya (Nature’s Lens)

Most people reduce Brahmacharya to a single idea. But under Nature’s lens, it means something far deeper.

  • Life never stops. Cells, bacteria, and micro-organisms are reproducing inside us every second, whether we notice it or not.

  • If Brahmacharya were only about stopping something, it would go against Nature’s own design.

  • In truth, Brahmacharya is not about suppression — it is about alignment.

  • It means consciously channeling our life-force towards higher awareness, love, creativity, and truth.

  • Not “what we avoid,” but how we live in tune with Nature’s infinite flow.

People often say, “I practice Brahmacharya.”
But most of the time, this is understood only in one narrow sense. In reality, Brahmacharya is not about denial — it’s about alignment.

  • Our body is a living universe, where cells, bacteria, and life continuously multiply. This process never stops, from birth till death.

  • So, if we think Brahmacharya simply means stopping something, we miss the point — because Nature itself never stops.

  • The real essence of Brahmacharya is not suppression, but conscious direction of energy.

  • It’s about turning life-force towards higher awareness, love, creativity, and truth.

👉 In this way, Brahmacharya is not about “what we avoid”, but about how we live in harmony with Nature’s continuous flow. 🌿