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This category contains questions dealing with food, its consumption and its preparation.
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A
- According to time, place and circumstance we must discriminate whether to eat meat, whether to eat the vegetables?
- According to Vedic culture, is seaweed edible?
- Also, I have brought (indistinct) from the bazaar. In which subji should I put?
- And what of special foods and special drink?
- And you think there's enough food (now, so far I have studied, that in America, in Africa, in Australia, there are so much vacant places that the present population of the world, if it is increased ten times, still there is enough food)?
- Are fasting and other dietary regulations necessary for leading a spiritual life?
- Are persons who are trying to cut down appetite, they should eat cool foods?
- Are you speaking specifically about all animal killing, Your Excellency? Or, how do you speak of animal killing? In other words, vegetarian living, is that what you're speaking of?
- Aren't they allowed to boil water in India? In boiling the water do you kill any little insects that are in the water?
- Aren't you in a sense eating another soul too if you're eating vegetables? Not only if you're eating meat?
B
- Because we get lots of that dahi. You drink it cool with a little sugar in it. I think it's good for digestion, dahi. How are you feeling today?
- Beef bouillion (I saw that she (Sally) was feeding her child, one boy, meat powder)?
- But how do we reconcile the fact that our doctors tell us we should eat meat because of the protein?
- But is it not animal food?
- But surely there is a practical point of view also. There is nothing to eat. What will happen?
- But whether Prabhupada will eat some? Prabhupada, you will try to eat the Gujarati ruti and dal?
- By who (their (the Marwari's) food is first class, there is no doubt. Yes... It is certified by Sir P. C. Raya), Srila Prabhupada?
C
- Can we drink date rasa? We are allowed to drink date rasa?
- Can we eat cheese?
- Can you explain the reason why yogis don't eat meat?
- Can you take little bit of ice cream or cold custard?
- Channa?
- Could you tell me the names of these special foods? How do you know what Krsna eats and drinks, please?
- Couldn't you get all the necessity you require from grains?
D
- Do you have arrangements with hospitals in case somebody gets sick, and do you watch diet carefully and...?
- Do you have certain dietary rules for which you do not eat? What do you not eat?
- Do you like it (bitter melon), Prabhupada?
- Do you want the peanuts roasted in ghee or just dry roasting?
- Does it say somewhere in the Bhagavad-gita that we shouldn't eat meat?
- Does the group live a vegetarian life, without any meat? Is that what you're saying?
- Does this (non-veg) food make effect on a human nature?
- Drinking tea and coffee also ("unless one gives up these four things he cannot understand what is God")?
H
- He (Lord Caitanya) would sometimes eat clay?
- He is making it in the mortar. Should you take it directly on the mortar?
- He says, "How is this, that the only thing we've talked about since we've gotten here has been eating of meat? Is that the only thing that the Bhagavad-gita teaches?"
- He's asking whether Srila Prabhupada would like to take some dab water
- He's saying if man is not meant to eat meat, then why is it that some animals eat meat? He's saying that we are animals also
- Hing and what? Prepare with hing and?
- How can you drink milk when the cough is like this?
- How come you didn't cook your food where you were living?
- How did you like the pomegranate juice?
- How do they make it (puffed rice) ?
- How do we reconcile the fact that our doctors tell us we should eat meat because of the protein?
- How do you find the taste (mint tea)?
- How do you relate your strong interest in dairy products to modern thinking on cholestrol and similar problems?
- How does a devotee know which food Krsna likes him to take?
- How important is your diet?
- How to give up this tea and coffee to which we are so much habituated?
- How we are getting that Australian ghee all the time?
- How would you know what to consume and what not, Swamiji?
I
- I have just opened it (7-UP). Is it cold enough?
- I know I would take sometimes rice and plantain. It wouldn't have a good effect?
- I should make it (one capati), or Palika or...?
- I understand that your goal is to have everybody becoming self-supporting in regards to food. But if everyone who is engaged in food production, who will be providing other things?
- I was always under impression or understanding from your teachings, that one never eats in front of the Deities. Can you please explain that?
- I'm familiar with the Krsna cookbook, but I do not see any suggested menus or nutritional information, and I'm wondering if there's any thought that's been worked on that. Is there any background of menus or nutritional information?
- If I have got a lot of foodstuffs, Srila Prabhupada, I wish to distribute, but I'm afraid it will go bad, how could I distribute very quickly, very quickly?
- If it is possible, should we go without eating at all?
- If it is so tasteless, why is it quenching?
- If man wasn't meant to eat meat, why in nature do the other animals kill to eat?
- If some devotee has some trouble and does not eat a certain type of food. Like some devotees do not eat ghee because of liver trouble. So these devotees, should they take all the prasadam?
- If you have got sufficient food grains and milk, the whole food question is solved. And these rascals, they are not giving protection to the cows, but they are killing cows
- If you take milk in other forms, like if you eat cheese, if you take curd or cheese, is it the same as drinking milk or ... ?
- In India. Is much rice consumed?
- In our experience we have no understanding how this can be practical, because we think that meat is good for our strength. How can we be strong?
- In the hot climate it is more difficult to digest?
- Is diet an important segment of the word?
- Is it (milk) like a by-product?
- Is it (the smell of the baked bread) very agreeable?
- Is it possible for people in the most animalistic conditions of life such as the Eskimos, who need meat to survive-is it possible for these people to become purified?
- Is it vital to follow certain eating habits?
- Is not eating vegetables killing a living entity also?
- Is something wrong with tea?
- Is that ("if you don't stop meat-eating, you cannot understand what is spiritual life") the same for others...?
- Is that (big, big swamis, they are advocating, "Eat meat.") right?
- Is that a teaching of the Bhagavad-gita, that one should not eat meat?
- Is that tea? Is that tea that you're drinking?
- Is that why vegetarianism is...?
- Is the objection to eating meat based on transmigration from animal to man?
- Is the sweet lemon juice giving some strength?
- Is there a speciality in the Madhya Pradesh area?
- Is there any difficulty from the solid food?
- Is there any reason why you don't, you prohibit people from eating meat?
- Is yogurt as healthy as milk?
- It is prohibited to consume, consume flesh, meat. It's because there is soul in the body and if we kill it, therefore we are doing a sin. I think it's because that we can't consume meat according to the Vedic literature. But what about plants, Swamiji?
- It was too short. In the movie? It was too short how to prepare it (one thing you have missed: how we are preparing all these foodstuffs)?
- It's mustard oil with spices, and I am not sure what the fruit is. It may be mango, I'm not sure… It's some kind of crude mango pickle… Do you want me to try to see what it is (why not take little?)?
M
N
- Nature provides each species its foodstuff. But in other species other than man we see that it's immediately obtainable. But man has to work for it, and he has to wait for the fruits of his labor. Why is that nature's arrangement?
- Next I'll give you some barley and milk. Would you like to have some bati chachury, Srila Prabhupada? Bati chachury?
- No peaches in India?
- Nothing else (that little dal, daliya, bas)?
- Nothing else? No fruits (so for breakfast you can prepare that soup, the little. Just put vegetable soup)?
O
- Of all the four pillars of sinful activity, is meat-eating the worst?
- One thing, the other day they were saying that sometimes when they have this skim milk, and there's some excess after they've fed it to the cows, they throw it away, they use it for fertilizer. Should they do that? Is that all right to use that?
- One would think because there's land and room for vegetables and there are so many cows that there would be a plentiful supply of milk, but I understand that they (New Vrndavana) use powdered milk. The devotees use powdered milk there
P
R
S
- Shankar Kumar has brought the food and all these things to his place. So if you like you to afterwards or take here or what would you like?
- She asked if it (prasadam) was fattening. Would make her heavy?
- Should I cook if I still have this fever tomorrow?
- Sir, why are they sinful? Why are they (to take tea or coffee) sinful?
- Skim milk should not be given to the calves? The calves should get?
- So about in a half hour we can give you some juice maybe? Grape juice? Do you like grape juice?
- So actually, perfect kings, they may have eaten meat?
- So if I have a fever I shouldn't cook for you? It's unhealthy for you? It won't bother me so much, but if it's unhealthy for you...
- So is that according to time, place and circumstance we must discriminate in our eating?
- So they may challenge, "Do you mean to say that you can feed the whole world without meat?"
- So to celebrate that, shouldn't Pisima do some cooking? ... And you'll taste a little of each thing?
- So what could be more charitable than feeding?
- So you asked me the question, "Is there vitamins in the grass?" And obviously there's not such vitamins in grass that it produces milk. So the vitamins are coming from Krsna? Yes?
- Some devotees think that if they eat large quantities of milk, the more they eat, the more their brain will become big?
- Sometimes the question is put before us: "You ask us not to eat meat, but you are eating vegetables. Do you think that is not violence?"
- Srila Prabhupada, he states about Africa, that the food..., that they do not know what to eat tomorrow, and in fact, that here it's very hard for them to understand Krsna consciousness. My question is which, what can we do which is...?
- Srila Prabhupada, sometimes when we're preaching to people that we don't eat meat, fish or egg, they say,"Why not eggs? They're not actually living. It's just a, it hasn't been fertilized"
- Srila Prabhupada, you haven't had anything to drink for awhile. Would you like something?
- Srila Prabhupada, you were speaking of anarthas and one of the lesser age boys was wondering... He's asking why we shouldn't take tea?
- Srila Prabhupada, you're not really going to try and eat that khicuri are you?
- Srila Prabhupada? Do you want a little more juice? Sit you up for a minute just to drink this juice? You want some more now, or a little later?
- Srila Prabhupada? Do you want anything tonight?
- Srila Prabhupada? For breakfast just fruits?
- Srila Prabhupada? How would you like to drink something?
- Srila Prabhupada? I can give you the honey?
- Srila Prabhupada? What about the point, in certain places in Bhagavatam it distinctly says that the human being's food is creatures of four legs with cloven hoof?
- Srila Prabhupada? Would you like some mint tea now?
- Suppose I feed these rats and I go on feeding them. Won't more and more rats come?
- Swami? I have one question which is widely discussed everywhere, that eating of meat is sin. Now we see that while for our survival, while walking, while working we kill so many things, knowingly or unknowingly, is it not sin that?
- Swamiji, are the Hindus essentially vegetarian in the sense of the Seventh Day Adventist...?
- Swamiji, I would like to know from you whether or not it is necessary for a person to be a vegetarian or to have a special diet to be able to respond to your teachings?
- Swamiji, why do you prohibit this tea or coffee also?
- Swamiji? Tea and coffee's also included? And what about supari, Swamiji?
T
- Take barley water now?
- That (most of the fruits here are poisonous except for one mango) yellow kind of campaka?
- The boys, they should learn how also to cook?
- The Christians always say that Christ was eating fish and drinking wine, so what problem have we got? Drinking a little alcohol, eating a little meat?
- The communists asked to us what we do for the starving people?
- The food and the sand looks exactly the same. So how they are immediately able to tell which is which?
- The human stool is a stool for the human being. Does it not become a food for a stray dog?
- The ice cream is not so good for you to take just now, so shall we keep it for you?
- The meat-eating also leads to many other sinful activities too, right?
- The milk has no taste or you have no taste?
- The smaller birds, they are eating something from sand?
- The stricture on the eating of meat, does that derive from the fact that animals have their lives which are accorded... What I'm asking is that because animals have a higher priority in life than vegetables?
- There are many other things that we offer Krsna besides patram puspam phalam toyam. So similarly, why can't we offer meat? He doesn't say, "Don't offer me meat"
- They are called langar?
- They call it java plum... It's bitter fruit?
- They have farms, they call them sea farms and they specially grow the seaweed for cultivation... But the Vedic culture, I don't think they like this. They'll prefer this... Do you think Prabhupada?
- They have no brain for understanding Krsna. That only comes from milk?
- They think if they can make very palatable dishes, what is the need for God?
- They would say then, "Why don't you let the vegetables die naturally before you eat the vegetables?"
- They'll ask what should be killed and what shouldn't be killed for eating? Where do we draw the line?
- This can be taken as food (China grass)?
- This is what? Like a cheese (Sandesa)?
- Those (meat or wine) are all out. They have to be. And tobacco is...?
- To eat plants, is it not killing? To eat vegetables, is it not killing?
- Tomato and cheese (for breakfast)?
- Tomatoes don't grow in India?
- Tonight (to make idli)?
- Trivikrama Svami went to their monastery in Laguna Beach. So they were serving meat. Trivikrama said, "Why do you eat meat?" And they said, "That doesn't matter. What does it matter what you eat ?"
W
- Want some cold custard?
- Was he paying for the foodstuffs?
- Was it (the tea) introduced by the English?
- We are having dinner later, of course. I thought maybe you would want something to start with (one glass of water will be fine). Only water? Only water, Swamiji? We have made a truly sattvic bhojana today so there is no problem
- We can even offer a drink of water to Krsna before we drink it, can't we?
- We have Mandakini (who will cook)?
- We have some grapes. Shall I get them?
- We've all experienced that. We've had so much bread. What did we get?
- Well, do you see that many people will die because there's not... (on account of scarcity of rainfall, food production will be reduced)?
- Well, vegetables are living entities also?
- What about Alphonso?
- What about eating or taking liquids?
- What about milk? He wants you to take milk also with the Complan?
- What about onions...?
- What did you cook?
- What if he (the thief) breaks in because he's hungry?
- What is bad about eating, people who are eating beef? What is bad about it?
- What is bitter melon?
- What is the difference between killing a plant and eating it and killing an animal and eating it?
- What kind (of juice) would you like to have?
- What kind of charity is it when you give to, food to somebody who is hungry?
- What to do with the skim milk after the ghee has been produced?
- What type of fruit is the best?
- What types of food, what types of things do you drink, such as juices or anything else do you drink?
- What would you like to take for lunch today?
- When earthen pots are cooked with, they are finished afterwards?
- When has this all begun, this fish-eating in Bengal? This was always going on?
- When people are starving and they have no clothing, then how can they take to Krsna consciousness? First give them food, then clothing and education, and then Krsna consciousness
- When they say they have a surplus of grains now, they are burning these great mounds of grains, this means that in the future there will be no grains for this country to eat?
- Where should we send (milk products)? To one center?
- Why can't we offer meat?
- Why didn't they eat it (this was aristocracy. They'll not eat, they will simply see and appreciate, "Oh, you have so many varieties, very nice." Then they'll go. And the household servants and others, they eat it)?
- Why not (eating) animals?
- Why not meat?
- Why the Vedas allow us to eat the meat of goat and other animals?
- Why we cannot eat meat - to answer this question the straight reply is, "because Krishna does not eat meat''
- Why we cannot eat meat?
- Why we shouldn't take tea?
- Why you've not answered my question (about killing)?
- Would it be better if we gave up eating vegetables?
- Would you like a little water, Prabhupada?
- Would you like some fruit juice now, Srila Prabhupada?
- Would you like some pomegranate, Srila Prabhupada?
- Would you like to take something, Srila Prabhupada? Drinking?
- Would you say that because we - and I talk about myself - because I have meat and bacon and so on, I am a, does that make me sinful? If I didn't eat those, I would be less sinful?
Y
- You don't like fruit juice?
- You don't want them (peanuts) heating or anything?
- You first made ice cream in New York, Srila Prabhupada? Someone told me that in 26 Second Avenue, did you make..., you made them ice cream when it was very hot?
- You gave some diet that we should follow. We shouldn't have meat, eggs, fish, and chicken. Can we eat cheese? Is there anything else we should not eat in our diet?
- You have a taste for nim?
- You have asked me about sassafras...
- You took your cooker with you? Is that the same one?
- You want Complan instead of milk?
- You want some channa?
- You want some water, Prabhupada?
- You want strawberry juice or plain strawberries?
- You want sweet water?
- You want to drink something now, Srila Prabhupada?
- You'll take one little taste (ice cream), Srila Prabhupada?
- You'll take, Srila Prabhupada? Also some jinga
- You're all vegetarians, are you?
- You're completely vegetarian, and not have meat of any kind and not eggs at all?