Why Onion is not eaten during fast or Upwas

There is so much of misinformation regarding fasting that I always use to scare away from fasting, my mother and other elderly members of my family use to tell me that fasting means you should only eat fruits and no salt and some of the members use to do so, some even told me that we should eat only once in a day during fasting, they also told me that satvik food is totally tasteless food, but it was not their fault they were also told by someone about the same in a similar manner, I googled it and I found so many answers, but non satisfied my mind, b'coz "Geeta"  talks about moderation in everything right from food to thought process. It doesn't want to act you as a fool, but what I found out in google it was sort of suggesting that only fool practice fasting, b'coz they have made it so laborious, so many ifs and buts, food is not for taste and you should not enjoy the pleasure of your senses such a rubbish. In "Geeta" Shri Krishn continuously ask Shri Arjun to enjoy the Kingdom, to enjoy the wealth and he tells Arjun that food should be pleasing to your body in every aspect and Shri Krishn himself lead his life in so much leisure and he even told the secret of that in "Geeta" so how can he ask his "Fan" to live their life in so much of misery.

Now coming to the topic if you look at our food our food basically comprises of many spices and if I just concentrate on onion and garlic they have a very potent use in ancient medical science of India, both garlic and onion are used as medicine now we shouldn't consume medicine regularly or understand it this way too much of anything is bad for you, another way I look at it is that of all the vegetables we purchase, only onion and garlic are kept outside the refrigerator, they don't spoil quickly, they remain intact for 2 to 6 months respectively, or rather say the micro organism which are always present in the air and are capable of even rotting your body when you are dead are not able to rot these two vegetable easily.

For this reason or say somewhat similar reason turmeric is also not used during fasting, they are helpful no doubt about it, but they don't add much to the taste and are used in very minute quantity, we add only a few staples of garlic or pinch of turmeric for cooking of four people, but they have significant medicinal effect on our gut and prevent the growth of excess of micro organism in our gut, the west is still doing research on whether to use turmeric in food or not and they are still working hard to know the good effect of garlic b'coz they as well as we think that our ancestor were idiot and we are cool.

Earlier in my blog I have covered a similar topic discussing Significance of Fasting, in that topic I have discussed that why we should be eating fresh vegetables, as well as chapatis made up of Fruit flour such as water chestnut during upwas (Fast) go through it as well for better use of fasting for your as well as your family members good health.

Arvind Kejriwal Repeats History

Yes Arvind Kejriwaal has done what has been done a many times, a common man challenging the mighty King, don't you remember how Shri Ram executed the Ravan, Shri Ram tries several ways in order to make Ravan understand that war is not solution, he offered peaceful solution and ask him to handover Sita but Ravan ridiculed him, similarly Arvind tried to make these political party understand to handover the corrupt practices but they laughed at him.

Ravan insisted that a common man with few monkeys can't challenge the might of his army, just as the national parties of India were saying that Arvind with few of his followers can't challenge us. They said, "now since Arvind Kejriwal has made his party he will realise the cost of Wheat and lentils, now Arvind will realise gathering money for party funding is not easy", but he proved them wrong he gathered exactly the same amount of money which they can spend legally on their candidates by means of his good deeds.

They ridiculed him saying that few man with no criminal background can't stand the might of their goons, this same incident was also repeated in Mahabharatha where Duryodhan refuses to give any land to Pandavas stating that his army is mightier than Pandavs, similar to the Indian politician. Duryodhan tried everything to belittle the Pandavas, he tries to undress their wife, similar to the various paid news published in the leading TV channels and by leading publishing houses to defame the Aam Aadmi Party, but even after all this Arvind succeeded.

I admire Arvind kejriwal b'coz of his strategies, his capability to withdraw his own decisions and rethink about it, for eg: he asked for "jail भरो आंदोलन " but he was quick to roll back it, similarly he told about not to take any support from congress or BJP but he changed his decision with time and with a style  " सांप भी मर जाये और लाठी भी ना  टूटे ". In Bhagwat Geeta Shri Krishn tells shri Arjun that " विजेता कि  नीति मैं हूँ " i.e. if you want to be victoriuos than you will have to plan for it and Arvind kejriwaal is a perfect example for it, for me he is the Kalki, the avtaar of Vishnu.

Even though Arvind Kejriwal has won the first battle, he has just executed the Meghnath but there is a long way to go "जख्मी शेर और भी खतरनाक होता है "Ravan is still alive and roaring, it is just Delhi now, it has to spread all across India and set an example of Ram Rajya as done by Shri Ram. Om :)

Science of Sourdough and not eating too hot or too cold

I always use to ask myself a question that why we fed the statues of Deity with food, b'coz I didn't use to see even  a drop of reduction in the volume of food offered to god. I googled it and I found out answer that was not accepted by my mind, I tried to forget it but don't know why in my subconscious I was thinking for it.

Thanks to lot of mediums today available to us like TV, internet, thanks to my upbringing in India and thanks to Shri Ved Vyas and Shri Krishn the author and narrator respectively of Shri Bhagwat Geeta , I concluded that everything which animals other than human eat in natural state has life in it, whether you talk about the herbivores or you talk about the carnivore, but man eat dead (or say dry) grain and lentils (daal) and legumes(seed eg Rajma) i.e. a grain that has been rooted up and dried and stored for long period of time. They don't spoil quickly.

Chapatis or say bread are made from generally wheat, millet, sorghum  flour etc each of them have a bran over it, this bran is some what similar to husk of a fruit like mango now do you eat mango or do you eat mango husk, ofcourse , the answer is yes I eat Mango pulp and not the husk.

Now just sit back and think for a while, which state of India was one of the most prosperous state of India, which state has provide us maximum revolutionaries? A state whose men and women are tall and healthy? It was Punjab my friend, what was the diet they had? Tandoori roti, Nan, Bhature all these were made out of maida and today we are being taught that maida is bad for health. Maida indeed in bad for health only if it has been made with the help of some chemicals, which generally the companies are adding to fasten up the process of bleaching. Our ancestors use to ferment the dough its called Khamir in Hindi and fermentation in English, this process will naturally break the husk of the grain and put your digestive track on ease.

Now please don't be arrogant and think " Whatever" or "कुछ नहीं होता यार " b'coz as long as our digestive system is intact we are healthy but our body is aging and it can backfire at anytime b'coz of the wrong food habits.

Science behind feeding Bhog to Deity

I always use to ask myself a question that why we fed the statues of Deity with food, b'coz I didn't use to see even  a drop of reduction in the volume of food offered to god. I googled it and I found out answer that was not accepted by my mind, I tried to forget it but don't know why in my subconcious I was thinking for it.

Thanks to lot of mediums today available to us like TV, internet, thanks to my upbringing in India and thanks to Shri Ved Vyas and Shri Krishn the author and narrator respectively of Shri Bhagwat Geeta , I concluded that everything which animals other than human eat in natural state has life in it, whether you talk about the herbivores or you talk about the carnivore, but man eat dead grain and lints (daal) and legumes(seed eg Rajma) and we cook it at high temperature, so even if our food has some microrganism it dies at a high temperature of pressure cooker or if we don't heat under pressure cooker than the prolonged heating of the food under significant temperature kills the micro organism, but if we eat by the principal of cook and serve than we are eating very hot food which is totally dead food i.e. no micro organism at all, now have you heard about the curd and good effect of it, what it is? A bunch of billions of bacteria, yes micro organism that's what I am talking about, good bacteria or say the enzymes which scientist are not able to produce in their labs.

Now what is good bacteria, yakult say it probiotic drink has 6.5 billion good bacteria in it, but hold on I am not asking you to keep your food that long, as long as we keep milk so that it becomes curd, but as said in "Bhagwat Geeta" that " Food should neither be too hot or too cold", b'coz in either case the microorganism will not grow,  the moment you cook your lints, let it cool down and be just warm and let your chapatis be also little cold, b'coz micro organism are always present in the air, the moment your chapatis will cold enough for them to settle and multiply they will grow and in this way you will be eating a live food and all this doesn't take much time the process is very quick as the heat and water has already made the cook stuff easy to metabolise, now please don't go by the Jainism philosophy i.e. if it will have microbes I can't hurt them. B'coz it is the law of the nature and acknowledging the law of nature is being practical in life

Now again talking about chapatis, chapatis are made from generally wheat, millet, sorghum  flour etc each of them have a bran over it, this bran is some what similar to husk of a fruit suppose take for eg: mango now do you eat mango or do you eat mango husk, don't be irritated :) , the answer is yes I eat Mango pulp and not the husk, now to do something similar in the case of wheat it is not possible to remove husk of all the grains of wheat, so what should we do, the answer is simple, our ancestors use to do it but we have forgotten to do the same b'coz we have learned the art of cooking but forgotten the science of cooking, did u get it, no ok I will tell you its called Khamir in Hindi and fermentation in English, or say we should prepare the sourdough of the wheat or whatever the flour is if it is of a grain, this process will naturally break the husk of the grain and put your digestive track on ease.

Now please dn't be arrogant and think " Whatever" or "कुछ नहीं होता यार " b'coz as long as our digestive system is intact we are healthy but our body is aging and it can backfire at anytime b'coz of the wrong food habits. :) Om