Guest guest Posted January 22, 2007 Report Share Posted January 22, 2007 Can someone please provide the full list of banned vegetables from the Hari Bhakti Vilasa? I understand red vegetables are banned, but I also hear conflicting information on okra and eggplant. I am specifically interested in the position on vegetables of foreign origin like potatoes, tomatoes, peppers.... Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raga Posted January 23, 2007 Report Share Posted January 23, 2007 http://wiki.gaudiyakutir.com/Forbidden_foods Vegs that came to India after the Gosvamis are obviously not covered in HBV... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 23, 2007 Report Share Posted January 23, 2007 The foods that are forbidden is very confusing. Rules and Rules and Rules. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raga Posted January 23, 2007 Report Share Posted January 23, 2007 All for your good, those rules. The sages of the yore experienced the effects of different foodstuffs and wrote accordingly. We may not be subtle enough to notice their effects amidst our gross indulgent state, but each ingredient has particular qualities that can be either conducive, neutral or contrary to creating an optimal situation for sadhana-practice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theist Posted February 13, 2007 Report Share Posted February 13, 2007 Why exactly do some devotees consider red foods forbidden. Is it because of the effects on the mind or is there some other reason given? I have never heard of someone becoming all agitated after eatting a tomato or carrot. There must be another reason given. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raga Posted February 13, 2007 Report Share Posted February 13, 2007 It's not a blanket red foods issue. The effects of many of these foods are only perceived against the canvas of a subtle consciousness intent on meditation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theist Posted February 13, 2007 Report Share Posted February 13, 2007 Don't the Puranas tell a story about some cow being killed and it's blood flowed into the earth becoming red vegetables or something like that? I know some devotees consider that some of these red vegetables as meat citing the Puranas. There was such a thread here years ago to that effect otherwise I never heard of it before. Were they wrong in that there is no such story? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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