Tamasic/Rajasic foods for medicinal purpose ?

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Priya Bhatawatas,

Our Acharyas say that some Tamasic/Rajasic foods when prescribed by

doctors specifically to cure certain ailments may be taken TILL IT IS

CURED, if it comes to survival issue as 'Atmahatya mahapaathakam'. .

That means such Tamasic/Rajasic foods probably are required for patients

but not for healthy people. Still, such ailments are nothing compared

to the biggest ailment called samsaric disease. Thus if a patient has

a big heart problem and if some food is advised to cure a small ailment

like cold/cough which may not be good for heart; then it is better for

the patient to suffer from lighter pain than endanger his heart/life.

Similarly some Tamasic/Rajasic foods even though are medicines for

certain problems, they endanger us by preventing us from leading a

life of a Mumukshu ( who eats to live and not viceversa).

 

Thus a sincere Mumukshu will never argue over prohibited foods, but

still probes for any other foods/intakes that are still preventing him

from leading a Mumukshu life with non stop attachment to Tiruvadi of

Acharya/Emberumanar/Azhwar/Srimannarayana

 

Jai Srimannarayana

 

Sarvaaparaadhamulatow

 

Dr. Kilambi Ramakrishna Ramanuja Dasan

 

 

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> Vkr4

> Sat Nov 30, 2002 2:56am

> Re: Vegetarian food

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> > Dr.Kilambi Ramakrishna Ramanuja Dasan wrote

> > that foods like onions, garlic, drumstick, gongur,

> > old food, etc. promote tamas and rajas.

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> How do you reconcile this with findings that garlic has curative

> properties? Hitler, a vegetarian, was a proponent of his superiority

> and was willing to treat all colored people as inferior, and as such

> needs to be eliminated.

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> Regards.

> V K ranganathan