Guest guest Posted November 30, 2004 Report Share Posted November 30, 2004 , "viorica weissman" <viorica@z...> wrote: > > dear Joyce, > > I see I omitted to answer you. You are as usual very very kind. > > I talked with a friend of mine yesterday who was a yoga teacher and > had Swami Venkatesananda for a teacher in the 70's. She told me he > used to have some disciples in Tel Aviv who invited him and insisted > that he should come. He was a vegetarian and didn't eat even eggs. He > was a guest of a family in Tel Aviv who didn't know that Swami V. > didn't eat eggs and they offered him for food eggs too. Swami V. > didn't want to bring that family any offence so he ate the eggs to > the wonder of his disciples. > > You see, what I mean to say is that it is so simple to take care of > other people's feelings when we really want to bring no offence to > them, it is so simple to 'eat eggs' for the sake of our friends, > > Love, > vicki Namaste, No doubt the Swami was aware that most eggs are unfertilised and then permissable under some systems to eat. Free Range and unfertilised. I doubt that he would have kept it up over any long period though. I remember that Paramahamsa Yogananda told Gandhi that he could eat unfertilised eggs, when Gandhi was recovering from one of his fasts. I think I would have done the same as the Swami, if I was just visiting but eating flesh is another thing altogether. It is as I mentioned in my post on Sathya, the greatest evil etc. The surprising thing to me is that he would have devotees that didn't know the situation................ONS...Saktidas/Tony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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