milk mixed with salt

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> Any comments on the following? One point that comes to mind is that even a

> good medicine may not necessarily be allowed for Vaisnavas. For example,

> garlic is forbidden for devotees even though it apparently has good

> therapeutic effects. Some Ayurvedic medicines contain meat and are also

> not allowed for devotees.

 

Doctors give medicine and they speak surety, but there is no surety, and

when there is no surety why should we break our four basic principles? I

don't think there is guarantee of surety by taking this medicine with animal

products. But if there is surety, you can take. But it is very doubtful.

When I shall come there I shall see what is wrong.

Letter to: Govinda -- Madras 12 February, 1972

 

> As milk mixed with salt is described in the text below as equivalent to

> meat (reference?), it is unfortunate that even some devotee cookbooks

> describe salty preparations such as soups and mayonnaise made with milk.

> In such preparations, could not yogurt should substituted instead?

 

One may get indigestion due to eating too many milk preparations—condensed

milk, sweet rice, and so on. But even though there is indigestion or

diarrhea, another milk preparation—yogurt mixed with black pepper and

salt—will immediately cure these maladies. In other words, one milk

preparation can cause indigestion and diarrhea, and another milk preparation

can cure them.

SB 4.30.19

 

The milk is the cause of your dysentery, but the same milk, when it is

medically treated, can cure it. This is the secret. How? One milk

preparation. Milk is the origin. Rabri, you take too much and there is

dysentery. And cikitsitam, the same milk converted into yogurt, add little

black pepper, little salt and lime, it will cure. The origin is the milk.

®r…mad-Bh€gavatam 1.5.33 -- Vnd€vana, August 14, 1974, (new98)

 

Milk and salt should never be mixed, it is improper, and will cause leprosy.

But salt can be mixed with yogurt.

Letter to: Aniruddha -- San Francisco 9 April, 1968