An Ideal Diet
The purpose of food is to increase the duration of life, purify the mind, and aid bodily strength. This is its only purpose. In the past, great authorities selected these foods that best aid health and increase life's duration, such as milk products, sugar, rice wheat, fruit, and vegetables.
Animal fat is available in the form of milk, which is the most wonderful of all foods. Milk, butter, cheese, and similar products give animal fat in a form which rules out any need for the killing of innocent creatures... Protein is amply available through split peas, dal, whole wheat, etc.
The best food is the remnant of what is offered to the Supreme
Personality of Godhead. In Bhagavad-gita the Supreme Lord says that He accepts preparations of vegetables, flour, and milk when offered with devotion. Of course, devotion and love are the chief things which the Supreme Personality of Godhead accepts.
Therefore to make food antiseptic, eatable, and palatable for all persons, one should offer food to the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Bhagavad-gita (17.8-)
Comments
Post a Comment