Question about Regulative Principles - garlic and onion

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--- Narendra Kulkarni <nkulki wrote:

 

> Does sattvic food mean avoiding garlic and onion

> too?

>

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I had this same question this summer. I love to chop

veggies during the Amma tours. I tend to cook with

lots of garlic and onion and have heard that certain

yogic schools do not encourage these.

 

I posed the question to one of the main tour staff

persons who oversees all of the veggie prep for the

tour.

 

They do use these during the tour. She also said that

they go back and forth with this at Amritapuri.

 

Maybe it is something you can watch with yourself to

see if eating to much onion and garlic brings out more

aggressive and angry tendencies in you.

 

 

I wanted to add my 2 cents as well in regard to giving

up certain foods and lifestyle patterns.

 

The deeper once goes into the Self, and meditation,

the more natural it is to let go of certain things.

 

The more God-filled one becomes the less one needs

things like meat. Even alcohol. Though I like it and

would not mind to have an occasional glass of wine

here and there.....it really makes me feel sick the

next day and it is not worth it.

 

The same with meat...that naturally fell away many

years ago, and coffee for that matter.

 

Hopefully I will one day not like chocolate, cookies

and cakes as well .

 

It is wonderful to have the guidance of the spiritual

master on these issues....but some of them are truly a

natural requirement to achieving Self-Realization.

 

It is said that one should put lighter foods in the

system as to allow the body to use the energy it would

use in digestion to work with bringing the body into

union with God.

 

You will long to keep your mind calm, and your energy

clear....and you will be able to tell the difference

when you partake in certain activities that you used

to take for granted.

 

Concentration on your spiritual practice is the most

important, and all of these other things come about on

their own in time.

 

It is also said that once one has achieved

Self-realization they can go back to eating anything

they were eating before. Amma suggests that being so,

we should still set a positive example for others.

 

Love and Peace

S