:: HEALTH ::

Be total in your acts, and if you are total you have to be aware; nobody can be total without being aware. Being total means no other thinking. If you are eating, you are simply eating; you are totally here-now. The eating is all: you are not only stuffing, you are enjoying it. Body, mind, soul all are in tune while you are eating: there is a harmony, a deep rhythm, between all three layers of your being. Then eating becomes meditation, walking becomes meditation, chopping wood becomes meditation, carrying water from the well becomes meditation, cooking food becomes meditation. Small things are transformed: they become luminous acts, and each act becomes so total that each act has the quality of Tao.

Then you are not the doer when you are total. Then God is the doer, or the total is the doer -- you are just a vehicle, a passage. And becoming that passage is bliss, is benediction.
_Osho

Tao: The Pathless Path
Vol-1
# 1

In the last article of Satvik Food we mentioned the three essential categories of food
Satvik
Rajasic
Tamsic
Also emphasizing the fact that it certainly does not mean to abstain from the various flavours available to us- but to practice “The Art Of MODERATION” :- as they say anything in extremes leads to extreme or drastic results.

Here are some recipes which is very quick and easy to make:

Potatoes in Mustard Curry or Kashmiri Aloo:

Ingredients:

Medium sized potatoes (boiled peeled) – 6 nos

Mustard oil – 4tsp

Ginger cut long thin – 2 tblsp

Fennel seeds or saunf beaten or ground – 2 tsp

Salt and red curry powder to taste

Mustard powder – 1tsp

Green chilies slit – 4 nos

Yoghurt – ¾ cup

Milk – ½ cup

Method

i) Chop potatoes in cubes and stir fry them. Keep aside.

ii) Heat up a saucepan, add mustard oil.

iii) When the oil starts to smoke up. Add green chilies, ginger.

iv) Whisk yoghurt and milk and add to the pan. Add 2 cups of water.

v) Add all the seasonings mentioned i.e mustard powder , fennel seeds, salt, red chilly powder and let it boil on a high flame for 7 minutes on till the curry thickens a little

vi) Add the potatoes and cook for a few minutes

vii) Serve immediately with seamed rice

Note: This is a curry so do not thicken the gravy too much

SATVIC MESSAGE:

It is very easy to put the ingredients together and turn out a dish but “a dish” is only complete when it is cooked with “love” “devotion” keeping in mind who it is being cooked for and whom the food is ready and has to be shared and served with reverence just like an offering to the divine and should be eaten slowing reusing the flavours by giving the food due respect and gratitude. Avoid reading the paper, watching T.V. or working on the computer while eating.

THOUGHT FOR THE MONTH:

Just like eating the right food nourishes the body

Goodness is not acquired from somewhere outside. It is inherent nature

You have to develop it as it nourishes the soul.