Once in my office canteen, a boy found an insect in his lunch plate. He was so baffeled to see it when he was half eaten lunch. He started shouting at the canteen boys. He called up the supervisor and showed him the small dead insect in his plate. The supervisor admitted the mistake and immediately apologized sincerely. But he because very furious and kept the plate at the payment counter so that everybody who would come for lunch should see the insect. He demanded the manager of canteen should be called and report such a blunder. The supervisor refunded the cost of lunch plate and tried to conviced that he will be careful and avoid such mistake in future. The boy said, Hum bhi non-veg khate hai, par aisa? So when the boy was non-vegetarian, why should he could not tolerate the presense of a small dead insect when he was used to eating chicken, eggs, fish, etc? Because it is not out constitutional nature to eat an animal, flesh or meat. So this reaction was sponteneous. But showhow due to bad association he become accoustomed to eat such non-veg food stuff. Did you ever get upset by seeing a potato in the curry of tomato or tomato in the subji of brinjals? Because it is natural. But eating non-veg stuff is unnatural even for non-vegetarian people. If we find a thread of a hair in the food, we immediately throw the food. How does a chicken or goat look like when the upper skin is pilled of or all the feather are plucked out? It simply a red skin back of blood, bones, flesh, mucus, bile, some stool and urine. Is is glories to each such an ugly stuff? Do not make your stomach a garbage bin. The purpose of eating is not just feed your belly protein rich food. But real purpose is given in bhagavat gita. āyuḥ-sattva-balārogya- sukha-prīti-vivardhanāḥ rasyāḥ snigdhāḥ sthirā hṛdyā āhārāḥ sāttvika-priyāḥ Foods dear to those in the mode of goodness increase the duration of life, purify one’s existence and give strength, health, happiness and satisfaction. Such foods are juicy, fatty, wholesome, and pleasing to the heart. BG 17.8
Posted on: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 04:54:43 +0000
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