My Experiment With Food

On route to South Africa, Gandhiji spent some quality time in London. Bonded by promise to his mother, of staying away from flesh, wine and hoes. . Everyone mocked him for him promise. Many others tried to lure him by forcing million excuses supporting Non-veg culture. Life became hell to him. For weeks he feed on food, which he brought along with him for journey. After food stuffs finished, he slept several nights with empty stomach.

And, then one day while roaming hours on streets of London, he found a vegetarian restaurant. A veg restaurant on streets on streets of London was a rare stuff those days. In decor area of the restaurant he glimpsed a book named “Plea for Vegetarian by Stakkie.” Without wasting any other second he purchased the book by paying three pounds. That night, Life took a U-turn. Not just because he filled his belly up to throat for first time he left India, but also due to total change in perceptions of vegetarian feed. Later, he avoided flesh just due to promise; now adopted it as a noble part of his identity. By every passing day his beliefs as a vegetarian started to elevate. “The ethics of diet by Howard William” was another book he liked a lot. In which he tried to prove Jesus, Pythagoras, Aristotle, saint and several prophets as vegetarian. “The perfect way in diet by Dr. Smt. Ane kings ferdie” made his vegetarian beliefs adamant. On a regular note, he enjoyed reading Dr. Alinsky columns, who himself was a profound vegetarian follower and supporter. According to Aliksey, Phosphorus found in vegetarian diet has more healing and resisting powers against diseases. It was mandatory for his patients to follow vegetarian diet. In inner pages, William described the healing powers of vegetarian food due to presence of phosphorus. Eighteen year old Mohan Das soon realized being a vegetarian is not the apocalypse of inner devils; it is medically proven too. Subliminally, he started to urge others to adopt. From seeds of vegetarian plants of thoughts grown. Technically a stubborn and more logical Mohan das emerged.

On knowing his affinity for book supporting vegetarian practices his many friends tried to convince him. They said “If you keep avoiding meat and feed on veg stuffs-you will be weak; it’s difficult to survive in civilized society without picking flesh”. He was also called as a freak who explores meaning of living beings in dead books. One day a close pal of him asked Gandhiji to join him for a dinner at extravagant Victoria Hotel. After denying him on so many occasions, finally Gandhiji had decided to follow him. In dinner, apart from a stingy looking liquid soup, he easily distinguished veg and non-veg food stuffs. In mayhem, he asked waiter to tell the ingredients of the liquid. Annoyed waiter said- uncivilized man, you seems wild. If you meant to argue get out of here and dine in some cheap restaurant. Instead of getting embarrassed, he felt delighted and left the hotel without complaining. Though he failed to find any other open vegetarian restaurant on streets of London; and like past once again embraced his bed empty stomach with no regrets at all. Now he found someone (waiter) as an aide who helped him in his campaign. Later Mohan Das described this incident as last clash between him and his friends who supports meat and flesh. Not just Indian community, but other in London who came to know ‘bout the incident appreciated him, for maintain his dignity under occult circumstances. Amid crater differences in thoughts, beliefs, and culture he earned enough love and affinity in his life for being a vegetarian. Thus, from a normal human being Mohan das, he began his journey to mahatma (saint); whose thoughts have not just enlightened India, but the whole world.

On eve of 2nd October his birth date also celebrated as world peace day, I decided to summarize a part of his autobiography “सत्य के प्रयोग:आत्मकथा(My experiment with truth)”, which I read years ago. Gandhiji illustrated this phase of his life as “My experiment with food”. I think, from the life of the legend -a lot is still needed to be learnt and advertise. Humans are placed by almighty at highest echelon of this biosphere. Carnivore animals are spelled to live on flesh of others, while vampires are subjected to blood only. Albeit the fact, we humans are subjected to none. A dinner table having food containing blood and flesh is never considered as healthy, moral or noble. Lord, God, Christ or Allah whomever we believe in has provided every living being equal right to survive on this diverse biosphere. “Humanity” is the crux of every holy book. So, deliberately we humans have to avoid food prepared from the grim and live of others. Don’t pollute your teeth with blood of innocence, and let the bio-diversity stable. a man is only known by his "Karma" and in heaven only good deeds count.

Four years back when I ditched non-veg food, so many peoples around me too advocated practicing meat. A number of times, I hummed them, even nodded ‘em. I was like I’m going to adopt it again. Then, I meet some noble people who are working perpetually for animal rights and welfare. Their posts and logic helped me in getting out of the trance of evil practices, which are inhuman and immoral too. Thanks a lot! Hitesh Kumar Dewani Mercedes V Del Castillo I promise, Soon you would see a vegan version of me, who don’t feed on milk products. As I started to believe in fact “only a child deserves mother milk; no one else ”
Be human! Be vegetarian.

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