| Discourses On Gita By Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
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| Discourses On Gita |
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Purity in Food15. For true service, purity in food is necessary. As is the food, so is the mind. The food we eat should be regulated. Not what food we take, but how much we take, is the more important question. It does matter what food we choose to eat, but it matters even more that it is in right measure.16. Whatever we eat will necessarily have its effects. What do we eat for? That good service may be done. Eating too forms a part of yajna. Look at our food with the bhavana that it is necessary in order to make the yajna of service yield fruit. Food should be pure and clean. The food that a man eats can never be too pure. Our society has performed enough tapas for the sake of purity in food. In India, many efforts have been made towards this. Thousands of years have passed in these experiments. We cannot tell how much tapas has gone into them. It is only in India that many entire communities have freed themselves of meat-eating. Even those who eat meat give it a secondary place and do not take it every day, they even feel that they are doing something improper; these too have in their minds given up meat.It was to restrict meat-eating that yajnas were first developed, and it was again for the same purpose that yajna was latter abandoned. Lord Krishna changed the very meaning of the word "yajna." Sri Krishna increased the importance of milk. The wonderful things that Krishna did are not few : but which Krishna are the people of India mad after? |
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