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Ahar Shuddhi
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"Ahar Shuddhi"
Definition
Ahar Shuddhi- "Purity of consumption"
No meat (includig fish and eggs), onion, garlic, hing, and intoxicants
Definition
Satsang Diksha Shloks
SDS 27- One should never consume intoxicating substances, such as alcohol, bhang and tobacco. One should also refrain from smoking.
SDS
SDS 29/30- Satsangis should never eat meat, fish, eggs, onions, garlic or hing (29).
One should consume water, milk and other drinkable items [only] a er they have been filtered. Food items and beverages that are forbidden should never be consumed (30).
Why do we not eat meat?
SDS 33/34- One should never kill humans, animals, birds and bugs or other insects and creatures. The Shrutis, Smrutis and other sacred texts clearly describe non-violence as the highest dharma and violence as adharma.
Why?
October 11, 2004
PSM was in Mombasa, Kenya
- "If there is compassion, then animals should never be killed"
- Show compassion through diet!
Compassion
Benefits of Ahar Shuddhi
Benefits
CHANDOGYA UPANISHAD 7.62.2
“Purity of diet purifies the antahkaran. A purified antahkaran stabilizes the mind which aids meditation, and after mastering meditation, the baser instincts are instantly eradicated.”
- July 16, 2007
- PSM in Chicago
- "Meat is not our food. It is the food of carnivores. Our diet is vegetarian. Bhagwan has given good foods such as vegetables, fruit and milk. They have vitality. Some parents feel like giving eggs to their children for strength. But there's greater strength in a vegetarian diet than in eggs. Many have gained intellect (buddhi) from this diet. We should remember that our leaders and rishis obtained their strength and intellect from shakähār (consumption of plants and vegetables). To live by killing, that is not life. We should live and let animals live... One can never experience peace in life by slaughtering holy animals such as the cow and ox and then giving their flesh to fatten our kids."
O/G and Hing
Sattvagun (goodness), rajogun (passion), and tamogun (darkness)
- Sattvic foods promote longevity, intellectual alertness, strength, health and happiness.
- Sweet and mild in taste.
- Rajasic foods produce pain, sorrow and disease.
- Bitter, sour, salty, exceedingly hot, very pungent and dry
- Tamasic foods are old, stale, which have lost their basic goodness and flavor, half-cooked, smelly, heavy to digest, impure, cold, partly eaten by somebody else and which contain bugs and hair.
- Stale, tasteless, putrid, unclean
Intoxicants
PSM in Nairobi
- Vacated the room for city council members
- Noticed 2 cooks standing at dorway
- 100 Kenyan Shillings worth of tobacco every day!
“Chalo Tod De Ye Bandhan"
Intoxicants
How to Maintain Purity
- Refrain fron eating out
- ie french fries from McD's
- Offering to Bhagwan first
Maintain
Conclusion
- Refrain from eating meat due to the principle of ahimsa (non-violence)
- Rooted in compassion for all beings.
- Refrain from eating onion, garlic, and hing
- Tamasic foods
- Refrain from intoxicants and addiction
- Inevitably cause harm to those who partake in them.
- Maintain purity in our diet by
- Not eating out
- Offering the food we do eat to Bhagwan as thal.