Diet

A person does not live to eat, but eats to live. So eating food does not merely mean filling one’s stomach. Eating food is a sacrificial fire (agnihotra yadnya). One should chant The Lord’s Name with every morsel of food, so that the food is digested easily.

Food provides energy required to carry out the life activities which can lead one to heaven or help one to attain the Final Liberation, i.e. eternal Bliss. Health and happiness depend on food. The whole universe originates from, sustains on and merges into Brahma. Similarly, all living beings originate from, survive on and merge into food.

Keeping one’s body and mind healthy is itself the code of Righteousness of every person. An harmonious activity of the body, mind and soul is itself the human life. Ayurveda describes the effects of various biological properties of food like cold,hot, warm, heavy and light and their action on the human body. It elucidates the effect of the taste of food on the body and the mind.