On Coffee drinking

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On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Sri. Mani Varadarajan wrote:

 

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>I would like to know if any acharya has specifically commented on this

>issue.

 

The MahaSwami of Kanchi, HH Chandra Sekarendra Saraswati Swamiji had been

persuading spiritual aspirants not to take coffee from early 1950s itself.

HH had the following reasons for that [1]:

 

1. Addictive effect.

 

2. Unnecessary expenditure. This point has to be seen in the Indian

context. He wanted asthikas to give up coffee, silk and vara_dhakshanai

TOTALLY so that the need to earn unnecessarily more (by giving up the

traditional spiritual way of life) would not arise.

 

With regards,

 

Sudhakar

 

[1]. Deivathin Kural, Vol. I & III. ed. Ra. Ganapathy, Vanathi

Pathippagam, Chennai.