Food for thoughts

Why No Garlic or Onions? Complexity:    Krishna devotee chef, teacher, author, and TV star Kurma Dasa gets asked this question a lot. Here's his well-considered reply. One of the most common questions asked to me is this: "Why don't you eat garlic and onions?" Here's my short answer: As a devotee of Krishna and a practicing Bhakti-yogi, I don't eat garlic and onions because they cannot be offered to Krishna. Here's my longer answer: You may know that onions and garlic are botanical members of the alliaceous family (alliums) - along with leeks, chives and shallots. According to Ayurveda, India's classic medical science, foods are grouped into three categories - sattvic, rajasic and tamasic - foods in the modes of goodness, passion and ignorance. Onions and garlic, and the other alliaceous plants are classified as rajasic and tamasic, which means that they increase passion and ignorance. Those that subscribe to pure bra...

How does quantum physics work, you may ask, what is it, and where does it come from? Copied from: http://www.krishnapath.org/quantum-physics-came-from-the-vedas-schrodinger-einstein-and-tesla-were-all-vedantists/ In this article we discuss a very brief and simplified history of Quantum Mechanics and will quote what the founding fathers of this branch of science had to say about Vedic influence on the development of their theories. We are not interested in new age mumbo-jumbo. We are interested in understanding what is real and what is false. This is why we, along with all other great minds, consult the Vedic texts. Please read on… The famous Danish physicist and Nobel Prize winner, Laureate Niels Bohr (1885-1962) (pictured above), was a follower of the Vedas. He said, “I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.” Both Bohr and Schrödinger, the founders of quantum physics, were avid readers of the Vedic texts and observed that their experiments in quantum physics were...

How to please Goddess Durga during Durga Puja Candidasa was a devoted worshipper of Goddess Durga while his brother was a pure Vaisnava who would worship Shalig ram. Candidasa was rich but his brother was poor. Candidasa had a very big and beautiful garden, he used to offer the flowers from the garden to Durga Devi. His brother too desired to offer these beautiful flowers to his Shaligram. And once he mentally offered a beautiful and colourful flower of the garden to his Shaligram. And it so happened that on that day Candidasa offered the same flower to Goddess Durga. As soon as the flower was offered Durga Devi appeared in front of Candidasa. “I am extremely pleased with you Candidasa. What benediction you want?” Candidas was surprised, “I worship you daily but why are you so pleased with me today.” “It is because you have offered me the flower which has been offered to Shaligram i.e. Lord’s maha prasadam. By seeing that prasadam flower I became pleased, so I appeared before you.”...

Who Is Lord Śiva ? BY श्री भक्तिचारु स्वामी  महाराज    ·  APRIL 5, 2013 Ref : http://www.bhakticharuswami.com/2013/04/who-is-lord-siva/ INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS Founder-Ācārya: His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda The following lecture on “Who Is Lord Śiva?” was given by His Holiness Bhakti Charu Swami  in Pietermaritzburg, South-Africa on 5 April 2013. Devotee: I have the pleasure to welcome His Holiness Bhakti Charu Swami. Hare Kṛṣṇa. So on behalf of the International Society for Krsna Consciousness, Founder Ācārya His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Śrīla Prabhupāda, we would like to thank our host Mr. Ravi Singh and all of you, the wonderful devotees who have come here this evening to hear from His Holiness Bhakti Charu Swami Mahārāja. His Holiness Bhakti Charu Swami Mahārāja, as Mr. Singh has explained, hails from India [from Kolkata].  And he was travelling in the West to study i...