Tamasic/Rajasic foods for medicinal purpose ?

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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.

 

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