Food is called the root of the body-tree. A healthy body and mind is the prerequisite for success in spiritual life. Mind will be healthy if body is healthy. Persons in the mode of goodness like vegetarian foods. One can also become a noble person by taking vegetarian food, because one be comes what one eats.
Truth is revealed to a pure mind.
Gambling, intoxication, illicit sex ual relationships, and meat eating is a natural negative tendency of human beings, but abstaining from these four activities is really divine. Sacrifice that is performed without following the scripture, in which no food is distributed, which is devoid of mantra, faith, and gift, is said to be in the mode of ignorance. Path of truth is the path of spiritual progress. To be truthful is desirable. To speak what is beneficial is better than speaking truth.