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Enakku neenga sonna points ellam pudhusu... thanks a lot for the info...:)
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Originally Posted by Badri
Enakku neenga sonna points ellam pudhusu... thanks a lot for the info...:)
hmmm....interesting point badri :)
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Originally Posted by Badri
Badri,
Thanks for the informative post. Quite useful indeed :notworthy:
Hi Badri
Very nice post quoting valmiki.
Though we know the stories mentioned in your post, looking in the angle of vegetarianism is NEW.
Now-a-days being vegetarian is absolutely the person's choice.
INTERESTING.
Dev, Roshan, Sudha,
Welcome.
Sudha, not just now-a-days, it has always been a choice
nice post, badri'na :)
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Rat Eaters
The politics of food in rural India. Despite the caste system being illegal in India, in many rural areas it is still rife.
Stefan goes to India's most lawless state to meet the "rat eaters". I always think that programmes about extremes are momentarily titillating but ultimately disappointing.
The one strange food that I went actively searching for was rat.
The Dalits are the lowest rung of Hindu society.
Although caste discrimination is now illegal in India, in reality it's rife outside the cities and blights the lives of countless millions of people.
The Musahars catch rats from the rice fields and in return for eradicating the rodents, the landowners allow them to take the rats for eating We went to one of the poorest and most corrupt areas of India - Bihar - where the rural Dalits are locked in a system of poverty and disadvantage.
We went to find one of the lowest sub-sections of the Dalits, the Musahars, roughly translated as "rat eaters".
We visited a village called Paraiya, which was desperately poor.
After 10 minutes of so, two tiny rats the size of mice were captured and their necks swiftly broken The Musahars catch rats from the rice fields and in return for eradicating the rodents, the landowners allow them to take the rats for eating.
It's a gruesome perk but with little other protein available, the rats are a great treat.
We'd been in Paraiya for about an hour, learning about the rice harvest, when someone ran over to tell us that a couple of rats had been spotted in the fields.
We arrived just as two men had pinned the rats in their holes, and were beginning to dig them out.
After 10 minutes of so, two tiny rats the size of mice were captured and their necks swiftly broken.
Time to dine. Over a tiny fire of old rice stalks and twigs, they burned the fur off the rats, then tugged open their stomach cavities.
After eviscerating them, the rats were roasted over the fire until they looked charred.
I rolled the rat in my hand and bit into the leg. They offered the rat to me as an honoured guest.
I pondered it for a moment - was this going to make me ill? Rats don't seem like the most hygienic animals but these little fellas had been carefully prepared and then thoroughly cooked over flames, so they should be OK.
So I rolled the rat in my hand and bit into the leg.
But roasted rat tastes very much like roasted chicken.
I handed the rat back to my hosts and they demolished the rest of it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programme...ne/6551389.stm
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The South Asian countries of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal account for about a quarter of the world's population and contribute the highest proportion of cardiovascular diseases compared with any other region globally.
The researchers found that the average age for first heart attack was lower in South Asian countries (53.0 years) than in other countries (58.8 years). The prevalence of protective risk factors (leisure time physical activity, regular alcohol intake, and daily intake of fruits and vegetables) were markedly lower in South Asian study participants compared with those from other countries.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0116205535.htm
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Balanced Mind & UN-EMOTIONAL Approach.. by Food.?
The Moola-text of Valmiki Ramayana itself has been under dispute ever since Budhism and Jainism took up the domination over the Vedic Religion, so called Hinduism.Quote:
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In fact as per History until Swami Sankaracharya took up to revive the Hindu Religion, it became almost extinct in North India, except some pockets here and there. But some Hindu Kings like Gupthas had patronised Hinduism and kept it alive within their Kingdom.
It is reported by some Hindu Research Scholars…
…that during the initial period of spreading Jainism and Budhism which vehemently advocates for VEGETARIANISM…
…the erstwhile Hindu Pundits who got converted to Budhism or Jainism, following their Kings…
… took up a perverted approach …just to please their Bowddha king…
…inserted new Versions as well as Concoctions… within the sacred original Hindu texts especially Ramayana…
…which was the most prominent and widely prevalent amongst the Hindu mass… as an EMULATIVE authenticity…
…exemplified by God personally… to show the posterity of Mankind on the Code of Human-Life.
And those Ex Hindu Pundits… preferred to vociferously attack the very root of Vedic Religion that it was not at all a Religion worthy to be followed…
…since it is just Bestial-culture… of Animal-doctrines… because VEGETARIANISM the basic tenet of Budhism has been ignored in Hinduism.
Whereas according to Budhism, the Vegetarian foods only are Sacred and the only fiiterst …
…for Mankind, the only SPIRITUAL BIRTH created by Nature.
So as to justify their RENEWED STAND… they have surreptitiously corrected the Moola-texts of Ramayana and such other Basic Hindu Religious documents.
Taking it as granted what all I say here is wrong and that no such corrections have ever taken place…
...and that what we have now is the authentic version of Valmiki…
.. if we have an insight deeply into the whole text… we can find several self-contradictions within the same text of Ramayana…
…as well as NON-CORROBORATIONS with the other Hindu Sacred Texts and Doctrines.
Can it be possible in a God's personal Narration?.. a Gospel.?
Vedas, Upanishads, Geetha and the 18 Puranas are the Well-coinciding Hindu documents…
..with NO SELF-CONTRADICTIONS anywhere.. but only more descriptions and elaborations for one and the same concept and sense presented anywhere in any or more of them.
For example, Geetha classifies Food into THREE CATEGORIES… Saathwika, Rajasika and Thaamasic…
Saathwika food caters to the Maximum need of Wisdom for any Creature…
…as also the Mind-culture without SUSCEPTIBILITY for Emotional approach…
…Nor Rash decisions, necessitating subsequent repeantance.
…plus a Basic feed for the Body to conserve the Soul-might..
... by constant enlightenment of Spiritual powers.. the rare might of Humanity.
All the Hindu scriptures categorically assert that the Mankind the ONLY BIRTH …with close proximity to innate SPIRITUAL POWERS… hidden within…
..and Mind-culture is the next Emphasis… all the Religions insist on… so as to ensure a Meaningful Life of purpose…
…WORTHY AS THE SUPREME BIRTH…the Mankind.
To ensure such an unparallel high Human-Calibre… it is quite imperative to be a Saathwika… a person of Calm-temperament… of BALANCED MIND constantly…
..as stipulated by Vedic doctrines... including Ramayana.
So Saathwik foods… so called VEGETARIAN ONLY ARE THE FITTEST Food for Mankind…
…if we intend to resolve our problems UNEMOTIONALLY…
...ensuring Mutual-Respect, Team-work, Social-Unity and UNIVERSAL LOVE of all….
…which alone can culminate in our Individual Peace of Mind, True Happiness, Success, Great Achievements and Advancement too…
...EASILY.
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.. To Continue.
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