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    Re: Sattvik foods for vegetarians

    Wha ti meant to say is that, one starts before or after.

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    Re: Sattvik foods for vegetarians

    how a man cannot eat with his wife
    Some quotes from satyaarth prakaash (which are satisfactory, regardless of whether you pertain to arya samaaji ideas or no):

    Q. Is there any harm in eating together, i.e., out of the same dish?
    A.~ Yes, it is harmful, because people differ in their nature and constitutions, etc., from each other. Just as one is eating out of the same dish with a leper* is apt to catch disease, likewise eating with other people is always liable to produce evil results. It can never do any good.

    Q. How will you then interpret the text "Let a pupil eat Uchhistha (the leaving of ) his preceptor"?
    A.~ It means that a pupil should serve his tutor first and after he ahs finished his meal, let the pupil himself eat of what is left - behind not as leavings but what has not been used by the teacher and is still kept separately. This is only implies that the teacher should have his meal before his pupil.

    Q. If the use of all kinds of leavings is forbidden, honey - the leaving of bees, milk - the leavings of calves, and one's own leavings - the food left after one had taken one morsel out of it - should also be forbidden.
    A.~ Honey comes under this description only nominally. It is really the essence of many a medicinal plant, hence it is acceptable. The calf can only drink the milk that comes out of the teats of its mother, but not what is inside. Therefore the milk, that is obtained by milking a cow after the calf has sucked it off the teats cannot be called leavings. But it is proper that the udder and teats should be carefully washed and cleansed with pure water after the calf has had its share, before the cow is milked, and the milking vessel should also be dept perfectly clean.
    One's own leavings can do no harm to oneself. Even nature clearly teaches us that it is wrong to eat another man's leavings. No one feels any great repugnance in touching the secretions from one's own nose, mouth, ears and organs of reproduction, micturition and defecation,, but one does so in the case of others. It proves, therefore, that this practice is not against the laws of nature. No one, therefore, should eat the leavings of or in the same dish with another.

    Q. Should not even husband and wife eat each other's leavings?
    A.~ No, even their natures and constitutions differ?


    * - Substitute the word 'leper' with a contagious disease and his reply is consistent with modern times...

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