Ghee (sort of off-topic)

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Hi Amrita!<br><br>I can't tell you

anything about<br>the benefits of ghee, because I never

used it before<br>I went

vegan.<br><br>Attachment to anything isn't<br>good, whether it's to

calling yourself vegan (which<br>involves a lot more than

diet) or to becoming more<br>flexible. Isn't this

practice about breathing and doing no<br>more and no less

than what your body is capable of<br>doing?

<br>Would I be a more evolved person if I was<br>more

flexible and had mastered all of the asanas in<br>first

series by now? Am I more evolved for being vegan<br>than

if I was lacto-ovo-vegetarian and still

wearing<br>leather? No! These are arbitrary judgements on things

that<br>aren't supposed to be quantified.<br><br>If

you do want<br>to stay vegan, I think that ghee is

not even a<br>consideration! Maybe find some

alternatives, or accept that your<br>life can go on, _maybe_

less flexibly, without<br>consuming a product of the

breast milk of another

species.<br><br><br>Unless you know for sure that the farm from

which

you<br>got the organic butter does not slaughter its

male<br>calves (as most dairy farms must, because they are

a<br>financial burden), "happy" might be an overestimation

of<br>the state of the cows.<br><br>Personally

I don't<br>think it takes a lot of discipline to

live vegan- to me<br>it feels easy and free. But I

never would have seen<br>myself embracing this

lifestyle even a year ago.<br>Everyone's

different.<br><br>Ghee or no ghee, vegan or not,<br>whatever the

asana

(including<br>slouchingatthecomputerasana), more important is BREATHE! Do

what's right

for<br>you.<br><br>Namaste,<br>bodysings