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Re: Hindu diet: Someone please explain
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Subject: Re: Hindu diet: Someone please explain
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From: Ramakrishnan Balasubramanian <rbalasub@ecn.purdue.edu>
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Date: 7 Dec 1995 02:28:54 GMT
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Approved: srh <srh@rbhatnagar>
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Article: 674 of soc.religion.hindu
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Newsgroups: soc.religion.hindu
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> droyd19@mirage.skypoint.com (Tom Sawyer) wrote
>vijia@pop.jaring.my (SV Singam) says:
>>To free himself from attachment, the seeker eats simple
>>non-stimulating food.
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>Does non-stimulating food mean food that is not spicy hot?
Non-stimulating food means food which is not excessively hot, sour, sweet etc.
People have classified meat, eggs, spicy hot, very sour foods, onions etc as
Rajasic. Alcohol, drugs like cannabis, garlic etc are tamasic. Rajasic foods
make you active and stimulates people. Tamsic foods make you indolent and
sleepy. Both are considered detrimental, but Rajasic is considered better than
tamasic since it is supposedly easier to become Satvic, if you are Rajasic.
>That is very interesting. I myself NEED poultry for my metabolism,
>but there are surprisingly satisfying dishes that have no meat
>whatsoever. And I do not eat red meat. Yet I consider myself not all
>overtly Material World Man.
If I may offer a suggestion, you need not be overly concerned about food.
One can profitably spend all that energy on some form of meditation.
It's easier to be vegetarian if one has been vegetarian from childhood.
Vegetarianism was not considered an absolute must, atleast in the Rigveda and
Puranas. Even in the Ramayana, Rama is described as eating meat. In fact most
people in the Vedic times seem to have been meat-eaters, the notable exception
being ISKCON members who apparently convinced Rama to become vegetarian :-).
>>the flesh of a cow is lower than the lowest!
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>What about drinking milk? I drink half a gallon of milk a day, but it
>is skim milk.
Milk and milk derivatives are considered good food (Satvic) in general.
Ramakrishnan.
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