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• Vegetarianism
• Abstaining from intoxication
• No Stealing
• Abstaining from Adultery
• No proselytization
NITESH SRIVASTAV
Foreword
This is the book that we all need to read. The new
generation has many questions regarding the practices
and philosophies behind our vedic injunctions and
inhibitions.
Shlok
Introduction
vedaih sanga-pada-kramopanishadair
Introduction
Well these virtues are for saints not for us humans, the
panch vartaman should be followed by saints
specifically not us. In present day. Nishkaam, nirlobh,
niswad, nisneh and are for saints
For humans it’s just simple five vartaman. For gristha its
just to say not for us.
2. Adattadan: no Theft
5. Bramhacharya: to be celibate
In Islam.
4. Giving alms
In Christianity
1. No killing
2. No adultery
1. To forget worries
4. As medicine
6. Family reasons
7. For entertainment
1. Physical worries
b. Mental worries
The worries and pains are not relived, they only get
away by samjan ie. knowledge of the pain. Pain and
sorrows are to come anyway, its life it anyway has to
come. Avtars have come on earth to relieve people from
distress. The sorrow is nature of time and no one can
escape it.
5. As a medicine.
The friends that one has today play an active role in the
first induction of a child to alcohol as he grows up. In
the hostels, colleges. This is where the children passed
out from Swaminarayan gurukul have their conscious
strong and would not get into such a company.
8. For entertainment
8. Loss to a family
In many ways people ruin their lives and it’s not just
their loss but intelligent people have been lost been to
nation loss.
Socrates said, It’s like mix sand, cement and stone, now
would it be easy to handle this prepared mixture, in fact
it will break you. Individually they won’t harm you, but
if mixed they will turn into a solid mass and kill you!
Only a Sadhu and doctors can help one self to get away
from intoxication.
Written by sages
1. Satvik aahar
2. Satvik vichar
External factors
All the efforts from the researches and scientist have led
people to take up vegetarianism in USA resulting in the
seventh day Adventist church who advocate it and
various other societies resulting in more than 10 million
people taking up vegetarian and vegan lifestyle.
3. Swami Vivekanand
7. Spiritual reasons :
Have you ever heard that few rabbits, few chickens, few
goats planned together and killed a human? Animals
don’t interfere with humans unless we interfere with
them.
They are innocent and they live only for survival. They
don’t have greed like humans.
So, the more the sensitivity, more severe is violence, and more
severe is the sin incurred.
There is neither pain nor violence in consuming
vegetarian food.
The one’s who eat eggs should once visit a poultry farm,
they should see the agony and the condition in which
the chickens are kept. It is so cruel. Their beaks are
broken so that they don’t hurt each other.
Only a few nice cocks are kept for reproduction, rest all
are minced in a huge mixer, if you have send KFC
factory or any such factory you’ll understand the agony
of the chickens.
Now imagine, how much pain and cruelty behind one
egg? And the ones who eat it, are responsible for it!
3. Is it beneficial to health?
Just like meat it only has proteins and fat. And in the
same way the same diseases that non vegetarian
consumption contracts. Egg is heavy to digest as
compared to vegetarian food!
That is because,
We just don’t live for the sake of living and don’t eat just
for the purpose of filling up our stomachs, we have a
greater purpose, by gaining bramha darshan following
the pats of satvikta and satwaguni Diet/ aahar.
Looking un to the history, the world has produced two
kinds of thinkers and analysts. These two kinds are
Vegetarian thinkers and non-vegetarian thinkers. For
the non-vegetarian thinkers their thoughts linger on to
the body and r4each up slightly towards the mind and it
ceases here.
But people feel cow’s milk is too thin and not viscous
The rich have a huge dining table, cutlery from the most
exquisite places, beautifully arranged plates and dishes.
And most importantly the best of cuisines and food.
what they do not find is hunger. All the time rich spend
thinking what we should engage in so that we feel
hungry. Drink warm war, hundreds of kinds of
appetizers, churans and more. The rich think, what do I
eat that I’ll feel a little hungry! And the poor thinks,
what can I eat, even though I’m hungry!
What is this all about? Well how much ever they get
they feel it’s less, from wherever, whoever, whenever,
however just take it. They have no less of money or
respect in society. It’s out of their instinct they are never
satisfied.
1. Vetan chor.
Kinds of thefts
Well the people put their arts into such negative usages.
A man in front of the judge told him you may as well
give me punishment but you will have to give me an
applause for my arts, for I can take away any one’s
wallet and put it in someone else’s pocket without even
them getting a slight hint of it. And he did it and
showed it to the judge with an extreme precision.
Just see the way people put their minds into such
negative arts if slight of such mind was to out into
bhajan god would just have been so Happy (Razi)
2. Impure/ Malin
3. Devilish /Aasuri
Vera bhai of Upleta who had stopped all his ill habits after
meeting Shriji Maharaj in the village plucked a daatan from a
neem tree from someone’s house. And immediately recalled
Shriji Maharaj has told us not to do so. He immediately went
to the owner and prostrated to him and asked for forgiveness if
not Shriji maharaj would not forgive him.
2. Dayabhai
Vanthli village’s bhagat mota bhai his son Daaya bhai. Daaya
bhai took baath in suraj kund every morning which is a
prasadi place to take bath, one day he found someone’s anklet
there. He picked it with a stick’s end and without touching it
went in the middle of the village saying there’s an anklet I
found in suraj kund, someone must have forgotten it, kindly
please take it. People asked him why are you holding it with a
stick’s end. He answered them, Shriji Maharaj has instructed
us not to touch anyone’s dravya, I thought let me get it here
so if someone is searching for it they can find it here.
But since he touched it he fasted for that day and the anklet
was returned to her soon.
The wife replied, “Dear husband, you have not matured! Why
put soil on soil! For me anything which isn’t mine, is soul for
me. Such are the values of lord Swaminarayan imparted on
me!”
Introduction
V - viprit / opposite
And just for the life to go on hence forth the nature has
created the lust and reproduction systems. It’s not made
by us, it’s a nature’s work. Therefore, to keep it going
God has kept life on an automatic mode.
In Vachananamrut Gadhada I – 34: Shriji Maharaj has
said. The day unjverse had begun, it was made in such a
way that the I would not have to get involved into it, it
runs on its own.
6. What is marriage?
1. Societal change
3. Educational system
4. Bodily attraction
The diet that we intake gets divided into three parts. Ras
is part of the food that makes up our body removing the
Macro / sthul which is excreted and subtle / sukshma
which makes man.
Khorak> Ras > Rakt > Maans> Meedh > AAsthi > Majja >
Shukra
People say these days Ram and Sita had met in a garden
what’s wrong if we get along in today’s life. Well to answer
that, Vishwamitra their guru had himself given permission to
Ram to go to the garden. Here Vishwamitra was like a fatherly
figure and Janak Maharaj has given the fatherly responsibility
to Vishwamitra. Why would anyone break away their limits if
their father had given them the permission?
1. Absence of love:
For Vidur,widower,
3. For a child:
Don’t ask for help from anyone, don’t ever sell your
morals, integrity and dignity for any kind of help.
Instead, ask help from God, have faith in God. And take
help from saintly people.
5. A personal story
But later, when we met the next day, she cried in front
of me. She said, “What does he think of me? How did he
dare to ask this from me? Am I so cheap?” She was
broken and felt really bad. What was made out of her.
Even the other guys, they weren’t genuinely good in
their approach. But this was disgusting!
He then abandoned and threw his wife and his two kids
on street. She worked hard for him to study and get a
good job, and he threw her away when the time had
come to repay her. So much of sorrow! What was the
fault of the kids! Even they were abandoned! They’ll
never get a fatherly love!
What about the agony of the wife and the kids! Who’ll
take responsibility for them? Are the one’s who wish to
decriminalize adultery going to take responsibility of
such abandoned people?
Story 2:
2. Abortion
3. Killing oneself
If one wants to know the pain, the agony, and the stress,
and the struggle to live with a stain, we must put
ourselves in a girl’s place! If a guy understands it, or a
girl understands it, one will never engage in illicit sex.
4. Orphaned children
6. Spread of HIV
If one stays loyal to one one’s wife, only one wife and no
other. And similarly, if a woman stays loyal to her
husband, only one husband and no one else, then it is
Brahmacharya. But the problem today, people have
already had multiple partners before marriage!
Aahar Shuddhi
This pravachan is the last and the fifth one of the five
vartaman/ Principles given by Shriji Maharaj. Vatlun
nahi or watlaun nahi (not to change or proselytize
oneself) but we name it as Aahar Shuddhi (purification
of inputs). The point is when we stress on something
people tend to either find flaws or go in the other
direction. But the name only helps in understanding it
better. It’s in away sugar coated for us humans filled
with maya/ Illusion to grasp and understand.
Introduction
1. Kshatriya
2. Brahman
3. Vaishya
4. Shudra
Our sages and Brahmins did the same, they went far
away in jungle and even though there were no facilities
or comforts, they used to stay there and constantly
engage in reading, contemplating and reflecting of
spiritual Scriptures. Worldly people didn’t understand
their method of life, but it was inherent to them, to
pursue knowledge.
Once a sadhu got some labours at the mandir and told them
he would pay them double their salaries, but they would just
have to sit and do mala in the comforts of the temple. They
loved the Idea and took it up. The first hour they totally
enjoyed it, the next hour they had gotten so irritated just by
sitting at one place all of them ran away.
These are the four kinds of nature of people in any
society. All of these are equally important to maintain a
balance in the society. Imagine if all of them just wish to
do research what would the whole world do?
Sloka 13 (Chapter 4)
CHATUR VARNYAM MAYAA SRISHTAM GUNA
KARMA VIBHAGASHAHA
Ch4:Sh13
Chatur varnyam maya shristham guna karma vibhagashah,
Tashya kartaramapi ma Vidhaya kartaram vyayam
"O Arjuna, I have created the forthfold orders according to the
modes of action and the modes of their nature, And although I
am the creator, you know me yet as a non-doer and eternal."
Ch18:Sh 41:
Brahaman kshatriya visham shudranam cha parantap,
karmani pravi bhaktani swabhav prabhavai gunaih.
"O Conquerer of Enemies! The duties of Brahmans, Kshatraiyas,
Vaishyas and Shudras are divided differently according to the
modes born of their nature."
Ch18:Sh42:
Shamo damastapah shaucham kshantih arjavam eva cha,
gyanam vigyanam ashtikyam bramha karma swabhavajam.
"Peacefulness, self-restraint, austerity, purity, forgiveness,
simplicity, knowledge, specialized knowledge and with belief in
God are the duties born of the nature of Brahamans;"
The responsibility of Brahaman, who are the learned
people is to teach people what’s right, what’s to be done
and how does one keep dharm.
All this is made by me, and I have given each one their
Responsibilities. Says ShriKrishna Bhagwan himself.
This way the society had been going along for a very
long time based on this simple varn vyavastha created
by Krishna bhagwan himself. Everyone was taken
equally each one’s work was respected and honored.
The problem arrived with varn bhed (caste
discrimination ) from varn vyavastha (order or castes in
society) wherein when each of the groups doing their
activity was in the same line of work the disruption of
one being superior than other happened. This was the
whole cause of disruption of the society.
What we can infer is that there has been pros of this for
sure, but in turn this has broken up the societal order.
What was indigenous and most helpful for Indian
economy doesn’t even exist now.
Max Muller says collect all the philosophies of the world and
compare it with India’s, the entire world stands nowhere.
What’s just like a lamp in west, the philosophy of India is like
the sun. So was his intense aspiration that he mentions “one
day I don’t read the Upanishads and I am not able to sleep
that day”.
This country was in the Islamic rule for more than 500
years and by power and strength Islam was being
coloured into the systems, but the people revolted
greatly, and they din ’t mind to die than to follow
another religion.
Families from India who go outside to work prefer their
children to get married in India, but their children when
settled outside India would never marry someone in
India. Every generation of the family which goes out of
India sacrifices the Indian tradition. Therefore, in our
varn vyavastha there were rules made so that people do
not migrate places, which in turn makes it difficult for
them to be in their tradition.
Imagine in west people go to buy alsesian dogs and ask for its
ancestry for seven generations which is a norm. is it a pure
breed or cross breed? and then people talk about their breeds
and their gun and life of the dogs and none of the man.
People talk so much about endangered species and specific
species of Gir and other forests but are we saving our own
species.
The karela we see now is not the real one if once one would get
a pure karela just a bit of it would scare oneself it’s so bitter
even if one eats sugar or drinks water its bitterness from the
moth would never go eating an entire karela is just totally out
of question.
A brahman always said his small child to not play down but
the child always got slippers and played with them put them
around even put them in mouth. The brahman asked her wife
what’s wrong with our child. She said I was in love with you
and so did our family change our names and got me married
to you but originally, I am from the mochi Kaum.
1. Social cause
If one engages in eating together, than there is a high
chance of one engaging in marriage with such a castle.
Just to avoid proselytization due to marriage, even
eating together is avoided.
5. Spiritual cause
The second and main reason for not eating food from
lower caste persons or a person who thoughts, whose
actions, whose life isn’t good is that, or thoughts are
affected by the good we eat.
4. Aashray dosh:
The one who makes the food their aachar vichar of the
person and traditions and the vessels and food that they
touch carries the virtues of the person.This is the most
important reason to not eat food from outside or even
five star hotels.. There is another reason that, if a woman
in her periods touches the food, the food is considered
defiled.
One should hence take care upon one’s roti and beti
vyavhaar and respect it so that one does not get get into
the process of altering their traditions and culture and
keeping their actions clean.