Chapter 17 verse 10
“Foods that are overcooked, stale, putrid, polluted, and impure are dear to persons in the mode of ignorance.”
Yaam
is a time duration of 3 hours and this verse says that unrefrigerated food
consumed 3 hours of cooking is spoilt food. This is a very high bar for our
daily western style and now very often Indian style living. The food we eat
today all over the world is not fit for human consumption-meat (which we are
not designed as human beings to eat and digest!), overcooked, and polluted/impure
food. Bhagwan declares that eating such food just enhances our ignorance and/or
we eat this food due to our ignorance of how this food intake changes our body,
mind, intellect and ego instruments. In earlier days in India, people didn’t consume
food beyond a certain time, kept some foods apart from others in order not to
pollute them and were generally aware of what kind of food was suitable for
which region, weather or person. There is extensive documentation of this
practice in Ayurveda-Veda for health and longevity. We will do well to peruse
and adhere to this advice.
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