Right and appropriate conduct.

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, "saktidasa" <saktidasa> wrote:

>

> , "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

 

Namaste,

 

Here are Venkatesananda's guru's teaching on the subject of

vegetarianism etc.

http://www.dlshq.org/messages/vege.htm

 

ONS...Tony.