Then comes a point, when you are not able to think, much less to pursue any course of reasoning. If you begin to fast, first your body will get weak, the physical forces will suffer then after a few days, the mental forces will suffer also.
All the forces that are working in this body have been produced out of food we see that every day.
Any food that has been standing for days, till its condition is changed, any food whose natural juices have been almost dried ups any food that is malodorous, should be avoided. Also, all exciting foods, such as onions, garlic, and all evil-smelling food, as “sauerkraut”. Eating meat is only allowable for people who do very hard work, and who are not going to be Bhaktas but if you are going to be Bhaktas, you should avoid meat. If we did not eat beef and mutton, there would be no butchers. In England no butcher can serve on a jury, the idea being that he is cruel by nature. It would be rather better if every man who eats meat killed the animal himself but, instead of doing so, society gets a class of persons to do that business for them, for doing which, it hates them. Not only so, but we demoralise other human beings. We get pleasure for a moment, and another creature has to give up its life to give us that pleasure. We can get it only by taking the life of another.
All exciting food should be avoided, as meat, for instance this should not be taken because it is by its very nature impure. First, there is Jâti, the nature, or species of the food, that must be considered. According to Ramanuja, there are three things in food we must avoid.Swami Vivekananda’s quotes and comments on food In this page we’ll make a collection of Swami Vivekananda‘s quotes, comments and opinions on Food.
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