Various spiritual concepts and their relation to a fruit diet
A short collection of ideas on how various concepts found in spiritual systems can be realized through a fruit diet.
Yoga / Moksha / Enlightenment / Nirvana / Liberation / Cosmic Orgasm
Let's say that the most enlightened state is nothing but sustained orgasm. In this state, you are breathless, thoughtless, blissful, with no sense of separation. The only diets I found to offer this are macrobiotics and fruitarianism. Of the two, one is simple and natural (for what it's worth) while the other is fairly detailed. Only fruitarian authors speak of being able to eat your way to enlightenment - Lovewisdom's Ascension concept in "The Ascensional Science of Spiritualizing Fruitarian Dietetics", Biotrophic Protocol's Cosmic Orgasm, Father's Heaven discussed in "Fruits: Best of All Foods". The chapter on Physical Hygiene in Benito de Donno's "Glimpses of Reality"No other diet provides as much possibility for enlightenment. How light can you be on a mono-diet of steak? How light can you be on brown rice? How light can you be on fruit?
Ahimsa
Ahimsa is the first rule of the first limb of yoga. It calls for non-violence. A fruit diet is non-violent.Triguna
A spiritual person builds a sattvic body by avoiding rajasic and tamasic foods. The only tamasic fruit is avocadoes. Avoid that and be the Vedic Sattic Saint.Asceticism and Sensory Deprivation
Save for squash, okra, peppers, and avocadoes, fruit gives your sense of taste only sweetness.Rebirthing
A baby's body is warm and moist. As this same infant marches to the grave, he becomes dry, cold and brittle. Or, as the Tao the Ching put it:
When people are born they are supple and soft
When they die they are stiff and hard
What is full of life is lithe and moist and resilient
What is drained of it is brittle, withered, dry
The former are the marks of life
While the latter are the marks of death
In Biotrophic Protocol, Joshua Rainbow speaks of the Rebirth. Such return to moisture and warmth cannot be effected on a diet which is water poor or which bakes the water out of food. For that matter, salt is used to dry things out so it must be eliminated as well.
Hermeticism, Elemental combination, Tattvas
As the physical organism dies, the non-earth elements of water, fire and air take precedence. With a water-based diet in a sunny climate with good air, these same elements predominate waking state life, making it more similar to the dream of death. As such, it keeps one untethered to earth. Contrast the fruitarian diet with other more earthy diets and you see that those diets are designed to maintain a body is a secure locked position on Earth, probably making the transition to death more difficult.