[Advaita-l] Advaitic Foods

[Venkatesh Murthy]

The reference to stale food is directly found in Baudhayana Dharma
Sutra 1 1.2 3 about peculiar customs in South India.

http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe14/sbe1435.htm

I observe the practice of eating left over stale food after big
festivals is there in many ladies of respectable families.  If costly
food like sweets is prepared in festival they will eat it even a day
or two after. In Deepavali people eat sweets and other dishes for many
days. This is in North also. Why Baudhayana says only Southerners do
it?

I observed marrying paternal aunt's daughter or maternal uncle's
daughter also recently. This is acceptable in many places and not
wrong also. But Northerners make fun of this. Southerners are more
orthodox undoubtedly.

Eating meals with wife is probably not a bad custom. Why Baudhayana
says it is only in South India?

Regards

-Venkatesh

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Sunil Bhattacharjya
<sunil_bhattacharjya at yahoo.com> wrote:
> <<<  Why Dharma allow even females to eat Tamasika food like
> stale food but not males?  >>>
>
> Will you like to give reference please?
>
> Regards,
>
> Sunil K. Bhattacharjya
>
> --- On Tue, 12/14/10, Venkatesh Murthy <vmurthy36 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Venkatesh Murthy <vmurthy36 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Advaita-l] Advaitic Foods
> To: "A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta" <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
> Date: Tuesday, December 14, 2010, 4:38 AM
>
> I experience good concentration on Advaita topics after eating
> Sattvika foods like milk and fruits, nuts so on. Just wanted to know
> if other members experience such a thing.  Rajasika foods like fried
> things, hotel food are bad for Advaitic thoughts. Eating food cooked
> by unknown persons is very bad.
>
> Question- Why Dharma allow even females to eat Tamasika food like
> stale food but not males?
>
>
> Regards
>
> -Venkatesh
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Regards

-Venkatesh