Meat and wine

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Dear Mark,

 

Regarding the question of meat and wine.

 

I have already dwelled upon it in an old posting of mine where I

discussed the panchakarma rituals.

 

ok the straightforward answer is a big NO!

 

Dakshinachara does not allow it's practioners to take meat and wine

and they have symbolic meanings attached to it.

 

Some sects in keralachara allow it while most sects in keralachara

do not allow meat and wine drinking for srividya adepts neither is

it advocated for Srividya worship.

 

However I have seen some practioners pouring whisky over Mahameru

and taking just a spoon of it formally as 'naivedya' This is however

done under the strict guidelines of Guru and might raise lot of

eyebrows of Dakshinachara practioners everywhere.

 

I personally do not drink wine nor take meat following my

gurunatha's dictum to all of his disciples.

 

Eshwaree Rakshathu!

 

Yours yogically,

 

Shreeram Balijepalli