Food & Health

• As is the food, so is the mind. As is the mind, so are the thoughts. As are the thoughts, so is the conduct. As is the conduct, so is the health.
• There are three types of food eaten by men. The food that promotes love, virtue, strength, happiness and cordiality is Sattvic; that which inflames, arouses, intoxicates and heightens hunger and thirst are Rajasic the food that depresses, disrupts, and causes disease is Tamasic. Depending on the type of food we take, we can transform ourselves into demons of desires, greed, lust, hatred, anger and vengeance or become divine embodiments of health, happiness, peace, love and bliss.
• The quality of food is determined by the vibrations it is charged with, through the thought processes of the persons who handle it, prepare it and serve it.
• In the food we eat, that which has the gross existence takes the form of excreta. The subtle part in the food takes the form of blood, and which is intermediate between the gross and the subtle, forms the muscles. And what is subtlest of all forms the mind and emotions.
• Food does he mind. Pollution of speech, hearing, sight, thought and action arising from the misuse of the five sense organot mean merely what is eaten, but includes every experience that is drawn through the senses and stored in tns, will produce ill health. One cannot become healthy by taking vegetables and fruits. One must consume pure foods through all the five senses. Whatever we see or hear or smell or touch has an effect on the body, good or bad.
  
• If you get angry once, the energy gained from the food consumed over three months is destroyed. Not merely that, anger induces poisonous chemicals in the blood, which will take nearly three months to get rid of.
• Among 8,400,000 species of living beings in the creation, all except humans live on food in their natural states- grains, grass, leaves, shoots, and fruits. Only man grinds, boils, fries, freezes, melts, mixes and adopts various methods of cooking to satisfy cravings of his tongue, the eye, and the nose. The consequence of this greed is ill health. Processed foods cannot confer strength, vitality and efficiency.
• Meat eating promotes only animal qualities. By eating the flesh of various animals, animal thoughts are imbibed. The fear, the terror, the stress, the adrenaline rush in the flesh of the animal being killed, goes in the blood stream of the eater and pollutes his mind and emotions.
• White sugar because of complex chemical processing and all animal produce including dairy, seafood, fish and meat contaminated by chemicals, nuclear waste and toxic heavy metals are the biggest cause of cancer.
• Hurry, worry and curry (fatty, spicy foods) are the causes of heart diseases.
• Contemplation of the Divine is the food for the mind. To feed the stomach and starve the mind is like decorating the chariot but starving the horse. To keep the chariot of the body moving, it is necessary to feed the horse of the mind with pure divine thoughts.