25/02/2020
Food and Mindset
Q: Gurudev, what is the relevance of eating Sattvic and Ayurvedic food? Usually I like Rajasic food more than Sattvic food.
Gurudev His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
With Rajasic food, you will have a similar Rajasic mindset as well. Do you know what a Rajasic mindset is? It is like a yo-yo. You jump up or you go down. Either you are too happy or you are too down; this is the impact of Rajasic food. You can have it sometimes, no problem.
If everybody is so flat and equanimous all the time, then there is no charm; nothing happens. You need a little bit of "rajas" here and there. That makes life more colourful. But when you find that it's too much to handle, then come to Sattvic food.
You know, I recently read that in California, they did some experiments in a prison. They gave the prisoners only vegan food for two months (vegan food means: no dairy or meat products). Vegan means vegetarian without milk or yoghurt. So total vegan food was given to the prisoners for a little longer than two months. They found that the crime that the prisoners used to do repeatedly commit come down by 97 percent. A lot came out of the crime mindset. It's very interesting!
