Adding to this, he also bought many books on French cooking and developed new dishes, one of them being a In the book, Sankar mentions that as a youth, Vivekananda used to run a ‘Greedy Club’ and researched extensively on cooking. Japan is an example of what good and nourishing food can do.” “But the forcing of vegetarianism upon those who have to earn their bread by labouring day and night is one of the causes of the loss of our national freedom.
The taking of life is undoubtedly sinful but so long as vegetable food is not made suitable to the human system through progress in chemistry, there is no other alternative but meat-eating.” In the same statement, Vivekananda further adds, “About vegetarian diet I have to say this - first, my Master was a vegetarian but if he was given meat offered to the Goddess, he used to hold it up to his head. In his work, ‘The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda’, Vivekananda remarks: Also, his father’s family was non-vegetarian. This is not very shocking as he was a Bengali and came from the Kayastha community, which consumes non-veg food. Interestingly, Vivekananda wasn’t vegetarian and consumed fish and mutton. In this book, Sankar, after going through almost 200 books on Vivekananda and a number of letters by him, brings out the monk's passion for food. Later it was translated to English by Penguin India and released as ‘The Monk as Man’. Eminent Bengali novelist, Sankar, penned down a book in 2003 titled ‘Achena Ajana Vivekananda’. However, what many people don’t know is Vivekananda’s love for food and cooking, and his passion for tea. Today, the world is remembering Swami Vivekananda and his teachings on his death anniversary.
Not just a Swami, but a lover of food too! While there is no denying the fact that we cannot give credit to popularizing the glory of Indian culture in the west to a lone Swami, but he was among the first indeed and hence commands all the respect that he deserves. Had that session at the World Parliament of Religion in Chicago in 1893 not happened, the presence of Indian yogic practices and culture on the world map and the respect they garner in the West today would have been difficult to imagine.
The contribution of Swami Vivekananda in catapulting the Indian culture on the world panorama is priceless.
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