Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:
>
> BOLLYWOOD CELEBS GO VEGAN
>
> PTI
> The Pioneer
> http://www.dailypioneer.com
> Saturday, March 9, 2013
>
> Nearly 50 leading names from the world of Bollywood,
> fashion and music have shared their kitchen secrets in a
> book on how to keep their celebrity status intact by
> incorporating a delicious healthy vegan diet with no
> cholesterol.
>
> Dilip Kumar, Saira Banu, Om Puri, Anupam Kher, Hema
> Malini, Mahesh Bhatt, Sonam Kapoor, Sonakshi Sinha and
> Vidya Balan are just a few who have contributed their
> recipes which include no animal products.
>
> The book*The Vegan Kitchen: Bollywood Style!, published
> by Westland, is authored by Anuradha Sawhney.
>
> With forewords from renowned doctors Esselstyn Caldwell
> and Neal Barnard and fitness expert Mickey Mehta, who
> explain how a nutritious vegan diet can help reverse
> heart disease, manage diabetes and reduce obesity, as
> well as promote fitness, the book is a cocktail of taste,
> glamour and health in truly vegan style.
>
> It has a collection of healthy vegan (vegetarian recipes
> which do not use any milk or milk products) dishes from
> around the world and from different parts of India.
>
> ‘Bad man’ Gulshan Grover gives a recipe for brown rice
> poha. “This is a dish that I started to eat because of my
> son Sanjay. He made me aware of the fact that by having
> poha*made of brown rice flakes, I was consuming fibre
> which is good for health, yet not compromising on taste,”
> he says.
>
> Om Puri has a recipe for*palak raita, saying, “I love
> palak*in any form… Sometimes, if I feel like eating the
> raita*with*chappatis, I boil potatoes, break them with my
> hand and add them to thepalak raita.”
>
> Model Yana Gupta also contributes a recipe that has*palak
> as an ingredient - coriander spinach brown rice. “I love
> this dish simply because I am obsessed with*palak*in
> whatever form.”
>
> Mahesh Bhatt has this to say about his recipe of spinach,
> onion and carrot soup “This is a great soup. Often I just
> don’t feel like eating a heavy dinner and Soni makes me
> something light like this soup and a salad. This also
> goes well with light pasta and it’s full of nutrition.”
>
> Dilip Kumar enjoys eating vegetarian dishes and the
> recipe he contributes is that of*aaloo mattar. Wife Saira
> Banu gives a vegan recipe of Bhavnagiri*mirchi*aur*aaloo.
>
> Other recipes include*rajma*(Sonakshi Sinha), drumstick
> sambar*(Hema Malini),*sookha*aaloo*or stir fried potatoes
> (Sonam Kapoor), Kerala*pachadi*or red pumpkin with
> coconut (Vidya Balan) and Kashmiri*dum aaloo*(Anupam
> Kher).
>
> Pickled bamboo shoot, a delicacy from Assam and a
> favourite of late singer-composer Bhupen Hazarika, also
> finds a place in the book. His long-time companion
> Kalpana Lajmi also has a recipe to offer - mango curry.
>
> Actress-model Dipannita Sharma teaches how to cook*Boror
> Tenga*or Assamese tomato curry with lentil dumplings.
> Every recipe has been contributed by top celebrities from
> Bollywood, the world of fashion, television and even
> music.
>
> “These celebrities may not necessarily be vegetarian or
> vegan themselves, but they took time out to share their
> favourite vegetarian, non-diary recipes,” the writer
> says.
>
> “Some of them sent me their own recipes, some of them who
> do not cook, asked their friends and family or recipes of
> the vegan dish they love best to eat... They made a
> serious effort to get the recipes.”
>
> Whole grain, oil-free, plant-based diets are quickly
> becoming essential in today’s age of high cholesterol,
> obesity, lifestyle-based cancers, hypertension and adult
> onset diabetes. The recipes in the book fit the bill of
> being nutritious, whole grain and plant-based to a T!
> Every dish is delicious, nutritious and absolutely
> cruelty free.
>
> And an added advantage: almost every dish can be made
> without using any oil.
>
> PTI
>
> More at:
>
http://www.dailypioneer.com/vivacity...-go-vegan.html
Forwarded article from:

Hinduism Today Magazine
http://www.hinduismtoday.com

WHY HINDUS DON'T EAT MEAT

Besides being an expression of compassion for animals,
vegetarianism is followed for ecological and health
rationales

REASONS

In the past fifty years, millions of meat-eaters --
Hindus and non-Hindus -- have made the personal decision
to stop eating the flesh of other creatures. There are
five major motivations for such a decision:

1. The Dharmic Law Reason

Ahinsa, the law of noninjury, is the Hindu's first
duty in fulfilling religious obligations to God and God's
creation as defined by Vedic scripture.

2. The Karmic Consequences Reason

All of our actions, including our choice of food,
have Karmic consequences. By involving oneself in the
cycle of inflicting injury, pain and death, even
indirectly by eating other creatures, one must in the
future experience in equal measure the suffering caused.

3. The Spiritual Reason

Food is the source of the body's chemistry, and what
we ingest affects our consciousnes, emotions and
experiential patterns. If one wants to live in higher
consciousness, in peace and happiness and love for all
creatures, then he cannot eat meat, fish, shellfish, fowl
or eggs. By ingesting the grosser chemistries of animal
foods, one introduces into the body and mind anger,
jealousy, anxiety, suspicion and a terrible fear of
death, all of which are locked into the the flesh of the
butchered creatures. For these reasons, vegetarians live
in higher consciousness and meat-eaters abide in lower
consciousness.

4. The Health Reason

Medical studies prove that a vegetarian diet is
easier to digest, provides a wider ranger of nutrients
and imposes fewer burdens and impurities on the body.
Vegetarians are less susceptible to all the major
diseases that afflict contemporary humanity, and thus
live longer, healthier, more productive lives. They have
fewer physical complaints, less frequent visits to the
doctor, fewer dental problems and smaller medical bills.
Their immune system is stronger, their bodies are purer,
more refined and skin more beautiful.

5. The Ecological Reason

Planet Earth is suffereing. In large measure, the
escalating loss of species, destruction of ancient
rainforests to create pasture lands for live stock, loss
of topsoils and the consequent increase of water
impurities and air pollution have all been traced to the
single fact of meat in the human diet. No decision that
we can make as individuals or as a race can have such a
dramatic effect on the improvement of our planetary
ecology as the decision not to eat meat.

HISTORY

The book FOOD FOR THE SPIRIT, VEGETARIANISM AND THE WORLD
RELIGIONS, observes, "Despite popular knowledge of meat-
eating's adverse effects, the nonvegetarian diet became
increasingly widespread among the Hindus after the two
major invasions by foreign powers, first the Muslims and
later the British. With them came the desire to be
'civilized,' to eat as did the Saheeb. Those atually
trained in Vedic knowledge, however, never adopted a
meat-oriented diet, and the pious Hindu still observes
vegetarian principles as a matter of religious duty.

"That vegetarianism has always been widespread in
India is clear from the earliest Vedic texts. This was
observed by the ancient traveler Megasthenes and also by
Fa-Hsien, a Chinese Buddhist monk who, in the fifth
century, traveled to India in order to obtain authentic
copies of the scriptures.

"These scriptures unambiguously support the meatless
way of life. In the MAHABHARAT, for instance, the great
warrior Bheeshm explains to Yuddhishtira, eldest of the
Paandav princes, that the meat of animals is like the
flesh of one's own son. Similarly, the MANUSMRITI
declares that one should 'refrain from eating all kinds
of meat,' for such eating involves killing and and leads
to Karmic bondage (Bandh) [5.49]. Elsewhere in the Vedic
literature, the last of the great Vedic kings, Maharaja
Parikshit, is quoted as saying that 'only the animal-
killer cannot relish the message of the Absolute Truth
[Shrimad Bhagvatam 10.1.4].'"

SCRIPTURE

He who desires to augment his own flesh by eating the
flesh of other creatures lives in misery in whatever
species he may take his birth. MAHABHARAT 115.47

Those high-souled persons who desire beauty,
faultlessness of limbs, long life, understanding, mental
and physical strength and memory should abstain from acts
of injury. MAHABHARAT 18.115.8

The very name of cow is Aghnya ["not to be killed"],
indicating that they should never be slaughtered. Who,
then could slay them? Surely, one who kills a cow or a
bull commits a heinous crime. MAHABHARAT, SHANTIPARV
262.47

The purchaser of flesh performs Hinsa (violence) by
his wealth; he who eats flesh does so by enjoying its
taste; the killer does Hinsa by actually tying and
killing the animal. Thus, there are three forms of
killing: he who brings flesh or sends for it, he who cuts
off the limbs of an animal, and he who purchases, sells
or cooks flesh and eats it -- all of these are to be
considered meat-eaters. MAHABHARAT, ANU 115.40

He who sees that the Lord of all is ever the same in
all that is -- immortal in the field of mortality --he
sees the truth. And when a man sees that the God in
himself is the same God in all that is, he hurts not
himself by hurting others. Then he goes, indeed, to the
highest path. BHAGVAD GEETA 13.27-28

Ahinsa is the highest Dharm. Ahinsa is the best
Tapas. Ahinsa is the greatest gift. Ahinsa is the
highest self-control. Ahinsa is the highest sacrifice.
Ahinsa is the highest power. Ahinsa is the highest
friend. Ahinsa is the highest truth. Ahinsa is the
highest teaching. MAHABHARAT 18.116.37-41

What is the good way? It is the path that reflects
on how it may avoid killing any creature. TIRUKURAL 324

All that lives will press palms together in prayerful
adoration of those who refuse to slaughter and savor
meat. TIRUKURAL 260

What is virtuous conduct? It is never destroting
life, for killing leads to every other sin. TIRUKURAL
312, 321

Goodness is never one with the minds of these two:
one who wields a weapon and one who feasts on a
creature's flesh. TIRUKURAL 253

End of forwarded article from:

Hinduism Today Magazine
http://www.hinduismtoday.com

Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti

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