Superior and Inferior food [garlic and onion]

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Mary Ann wrote: I have read words of Ammachi where she advises to eat

foods that don't have much flavor, and to hang out by stinky places,

such that we do not seek or revel in sensual pleasures. I guess this

is a known spiritual teaching. We are all exposed to stinkiness every

now and then, and to bland or bad-tasting food. I think ultimately

there is no need to seek out or prolong those experiences any more

than to seek out or prolong experiences of delicious aromas and

delectable foodstuffs.

 

 

Somebody told me once that when he received his Panchadasi Mantra,

somehow he does not feel hunger at all. So weather you eat things

that are tamasic or sattvic means nothing. If you do not feel hunger

and your taste to the flavours of the food does not matter anymore,

and you eat only for what is required by the body, does tamasic and

sattvic food means anything at all? So I am rather amazed at all

these fuss about Onions and Garlic, for I personally believe that

once the food enters our body, it automatically being purified by the

divinity that is within us. It is us [the body] that change the

tamasic food into sattvic. All food is good and it is us who likes to

make this distinguish about being tamasic and sattvic. The same

manner as how we go around trying to distinguish between being

superior and inferior. What is superior and inferior food?

 

I think detective Mango Phd makes a very interesting point :

Traditionally poor people eat garlic and onions to mask the taste of

poor foods, for that reason the higher classes don't eat them,

thinking that they pollute the body. Not that people understand this

any longer, it's just historical fact.

 

This is the classical example of how social condition influence the

religious thoughts. And I think this make more sense.