Dharma of food

   Every living organism is destined
to eat a particular type of food based on the shape and size of its
body. The dumb animals lead their life accordingly, whereas we human
beings inspite of being intelligent have no proper knowledge till date.

  Our ultimate goal in life is attainment
of Jnana. So we should eat the food that would get digested easily,
would give us more energy in less time and send less waste material.
The main dharma of food is it should contain life in it. Instead of
providing such a food we are cooking, frying roasting and adding spices
to the food. We are taking food at odd hours. To worsen it, we are eating
as per our senses ignoring the dharma of the body. Can a car run with
kerosene instead of petrol ? We are doing that to our body.

The problem caused to the body
due to improper food should be rectified only by changing food habits, but not
by providing medicines. For instance if we require unleaded petrol for our car
and it is not available in the nearest bunk, are we not going very far to get
the petrol we require? When we can realise this simple truth in the case of
an inanimate thing like our car, can’t we take greater care of our precious
possession the one and the only body we have ? If we learn what to eat, how
to eat and how much to eat and eat accordingly and follow such a life style,
good health is assured to us.

In the present day, you are not eating natural
food. You are eating only ruchis. Ruchi is different from food. Food is for
protection. Ruchi is for destruction.

  The first and foremost thing you have to
do is to drive out the seven ruchis that spoil your health. They are salt, chilli
powder, oil, ghee, sweet, sour and masalas. You can substitute these seven ruchis
with different natural items which give you a two fold advantage. You can get
ruchi and still be healthy. You can substitute salt with coconut, leafy vegetables,
milk or curds in the curries. The natural salt in them substitutes the artificial
salt you add. Use green chilli in the place of red chilli and chilli powder.
Use amla, tamarind tender leaves, mangoes and lemon the place of tamarind. Use
honey instead of sugar or jaggery. You can also use dates. Don’t ever think
of oil, ghee and masalas.

How is salt harmful :

There are nearly 125 trillion cells in our
body. Potasium is present in the protoplasm (sticky, wheatish thick liquid)
of the cell, which means inside the cell. Sodium (salt) is present outside the
cell. The ratio is 8%. 8% potasium inside and 1% sodium outside the cell for
all the cells. These two can retain the 68% water in our body throughout. This
ratio decides the health of a cell. The movements of the food into the cell
and of the waste material outside the cell are good, if the ratio is normal.
If the ratio is disturbed the cell’s health is disturbed which in turn disturb
the health of the body of its owner.

  The salt in the natural vegetables and fruits
is called sodium. Sodium and potasium content in them is in the same ratio as
in the cell. So you eat them as they are raw your health will not be disturbed.
You cook them , the potassium content in it goes up and gets destroyed. To top
it, you add salt to it. So the cooked food is harmful since it increases the
salt content and decreases the potasium content. In other words their ratio
is reversed. The cooked food and salty food is thus exactly opposite to the
requirement of the cell. Consequently the cells become weak and since they don’t
get the required energy die out an untimely death. Their death gives birth to
minor ailments which in turn foster major diseases.

  All fruits, vegetables, seeds sprouts, coconut,
dates, milk, contain more of potasium and less of sodium. If you eat these the
same ratio reaches your body and maintains the same ratio in your body life
long.

  Cooking is harmful. Adding salt is more
harmful. Adding oil, ghee and masalas is the most harmful. As it is it looks
like this. it is a monkey. It drank wine, It jumped over fire. To top it, you
keep it fridge, take it out heat it and eat it, you are doing the worst damage
to it. The proteins, vitamins and nutrients you require would have all died
down in the process.

  For instance sugar cane is very helpful.
But the white sugar you make out of it in a factory by removing the fibre, by
filtering it, by adding some binding agents some anti oxidants, some preservatives,
some soluble agents and some colouring agents is the most harmful. Natural things
you should take them as they are. You should not add artificial flavours or
ingredients to them. Man’s creation is only a destruction of God’s creation.

What to eat ?

 a) You can drink vegetable juice 20 minutes
after you drink water. You can make juice out of tomato, carrot, beetroot, leafy
vegetables, keera. Can add honey. Drink it slowly sip by sip for ten minutes.  

b) After an hour after drinking juice eat
sprouts of green gram, bengal gram or soaked groundnuts you can add dates or
coconut to them. Whatever you eat, you should chew it and eat !

c) You should eat between 12 noon and 1
p.m. Eat unpolished rice or wheat or pulka with nearly 1kg curries cooked without
oil, salt and seasoning. You can eat plenty of curds.

d) Around 3.30 p.m. to 4p.m. you can eat
fruits available at that particular time of the year.

e) Around 6p.m. to 6.30p.m. eat pulkas with
raw or cooked vegetables. With this you put a full stop for the day.

 f) You take raw food 60% (Vegetable juice
+ sprouts, fruits, coconut + dates) and 40% cooked food (lunch and dinner) it
means you have fulfilled you Dharma of food properly.