QN: Should food in Satnaam Sangat be vegetarian?
Baba ji has always taught us to accept what God gives us, and in gurbani too it says "tu datar data tera dita khaavna - you are the Giver, whatever you give I eat." Whenever we have had food with baba ji they never stopped the host host from making whatever they pleased and baba ji just eats it with a smile full of thanks. It is a really important part of Satnaam Sangat that we learn to break out of our dharam kay bharams - religious superstitions. GurParsaad Bharam Ka Naas - with the Guru's Grace superstitions are destroyed. One of the biggest superstitions in all religions nowadays is about what and what not to eat and to impose that on others.
So putting rules on the langar or sangat isn't appropriate, because everyone has to follow their inner hukam , their feeling. So if aunty ji or penji get the feeling to cook something that is what they make without any restrictions and when Dassan Dass ji stayed he never at al even once made any rules about the food. They have the attitude If it is all veggie food then great, and if it is all meat food then great too. Either way its all thanks to God for providing, and no desire on our part to avoid or have for any particular kind of food that is served to us. Really the sangat is for you to break out of your own self-made rules and conclusions about life, to expand your mind that is what we have learned from Baba ji.
In your own day to day life, when you have a choice, go for the healthy choice with thanks , learn to get out of avoiding certain foods because of false beliefs and learn to stop going for other foods because of carvings and desires.
You can look inside and see why you made this request and how you felt last time and how you feel now when reading this reply. What is being rattled inside you? Is it true or false beliefs?
God Bless You ji
Preeto.
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