Good Conduct And Eatables

‘Good conduct’ might be defined as engaging in righteous acts, good behaviour, good company and inclination towards right type of knowledge; while the reverse is treated as ‘bad conduct’. The main duty and conduct for the man is to restrain all his senses like a good driver, from wandering into wrong paths. He cannot succeed in the knowledge of Dharma, and Vedas. as also is the act of sacrifices, Yajnas, and relating to life, etc. Therefore it is essential for a man that he should try to accomplish all his desires, by restraining all his five senses, five organs and Mind, as also preserving it in a regulated life, as regards the meals, walkings, and Yogic exercises, etc. One must give successive preference to the riches, relation, age, action and pious knowledge, in that order. A man without any knowledge should be treated as a child, even though he might have attained the age of hundred years; while even a child should be treated as an elder if only he possesses knowledge and gives it to others. One must have clean and pure habits as regards bathing clothing, eating, drinking, etc., because only in this way one can attain the purity of mind and health of the body. This also encourages his strength. But this purification must be aimed only at removing the impurities, and should become the aim in itself. It is therefore that
‘Good conduct’ and ‘Character’ has been declared, in Vedas and other- scriptures, as the most sacred ‘duty’ of the humanbeings, This has been explained in the Vedas and Manusmriti as. Serving the parents, teachers and Guests, accordingly; performing the benevolent for all ; having comyany of the righteous, truthful and benevolent people, that instead. Of the non-believers and bad people; etc. Sometimes even crossing the seas and foreign trips are- declared as Adharma acts. All this is wrong, because the• kings of this very Aryavarta, the country of ours, were crossing all the seas and continents for purposes of conquest, marriage, and travel etc., even before and until Mahabharata. For example, Shukra and Arjuna went to. Patala, i. e. America of the time of today, which the histo- rians deny because of their ignorance or due to some other ulterior motives. Therefore we must go to foreign coun- tries. so as to benefit from their progress in the fields of knowledge, and other scientific advancement, etc. The same ill true about the purity of eating and dinking etc .. The Shudras should not be debarred from preparing food etc. Rather they should be engaged in such acts, so as the, educated people are released for other important duties. But the former must take care of cleaniness and purity in all such matters. Dietetics is of two types: One prescribed in Scriptures, and the other prescribed in Medical Works. According to the former butchery, meat-eating, drinking of purifies or smelling things, etc. is prescribed; while medically each thing has to be described according to its scientific values. Therefore, one must not kill animals, more Continue from last issue particularly the milch and beneflcient animals, like cow, goat, etc. A cow, with its progenies, satisfies millions of people, if counted properly. The same is true in case af goat, etc. Violent and killer animals might be allowed to be killed according to the law of the land, only to save others from their vagaries, but not for eating their meat, as that will make its eaters violent and aggressive in nature. No undue consideration should be given to the place, method and various other aspects of cooking. It may be cooked anywhere, if only the place is good and attractive. We must not encourage the differences based on such small considerations. Instead we should try to reduce them, so that all may adopt the same righteous path, as prescribed in the Vedas: and make the human race more joyous: and this earth a better living place.