Why is Masoor dal (red lentils) prohibited in Vaishnava diet?

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- aishinice > Devi Radha Dasi July 14, 2010 at 7:33pm
  
  Similarly, masura dhal and urad dhal are also considered nonvegetarian. These two dhals contain a great amount of protein, and food rich in protein is considered nonvegetarian.
  
  >>> Ref. VedaBase => Madhya 4.169
  - rajat srivastava > aishinice November 2, 2010 at 1:07pm
    
    actually what i think that ones body require certain amount of calculated protein, vitamins, minerals etc. whatever is extra is lost with the stool. anyhow eating so much proteceous food only allows building up of muscles which genrally body builders do..lets us accept very simple thing "eating, mating, sleeping and defending is not our( humans) dharma but animals' but only human being has the power to penetrate through false ego"- HH RADHANATH SWAMI MAHARAJ. no need to be so much choosy to select what to eat and what not to! ample varities of veggies are granted in vaishnav system by the chain of gurus. select frm the list and eat till it keeps body and soul together..and spirituality intact
Amit kumar July 12, 2010 at 9:26am

Hare Krishna!Mataji
As we know that there r three mode by which we can classify all living entity..these mods r..
1.Mode of goodness(Satvic Guna)
2.Mode of passion(Rajo Guna )
3.Mode of ignorence(Tamsic Guna)
As per these guna's every one have different conciousness ,different habits n different liking towards food..
Onion and Garlic is considered the food in the mode of passion, and if u know about the above GUNA'S then u can choose eassly What to eat what to not...
So, i am uploading a lecture of Shri RadhaGopinath Prabhu which will help u to find the answer of your question....
I request u please listen the whole lecture very carefully..
Pranam..
k.s.subramanian June 18, 2010 at 1:15pm

While discussing food , it will be worthwhile to remember that our primary aim is to control the tongue as it is a very powerful sense. When tongue is controlled , genitals are easier to control as SP says in NOI. So, the mind should not be allowed to dwell too much on talks on food as Raghunath Das goswami showed in his life. Yuktha vairagya is also a wonderful philosophy given to us by Rupa Goswami which can be applied in this context. We use everything in the service of Krishna and thus purify them.

In my opinion , we all have knowledge of the major prohibited items. There is some variation in the ISKCON community and other vaishnava communities in some items and I don't think it is of great consequence. Some say carrots, beetroot , cabbage even green chillie are foreign and so they are not offered to Lord Jagannath! Tamil Vaishnavas avoid brinjals on Ekadasi days. I have been served soya in some ISKCON temples. In my humble opinion, such issues are far less significant than many other do's and don'ts that we must observe.

Hare Krishna!
- Dina-Anukampana Das > k.s.subramanian June 29, 2010 at 9:22am
  
  hare krsna
  
  HG K S Subramanian prabhu wrote:
  
  i do agree with his spirit, but it may be more accurate to say, the PRIMARY aim is to please srila gurudev and sriman gauranga mahaprabhu! As Srila Prabhupada once said (sorry don't have vedabase to search out the ref this moment), "i wd eat meat if krsna ate meat. we are krsna-tarians, not vegetarians!' Srila Prabhupada ki.... jaya!
  
  yr servant
  
  dina
Mahesh Kumar Gandhi April 18, 2010 at 5:35pm

Hare Krishna, the replies received saying because it contains high proteins it is like eating meat, looks very childish. It tends to say that only meat can have high protein values and not a cereal or a vegetable. Protein are found in every edible thing. Value may be les or more. How can High value convert a cereal into a Non Veg item ? There must be some other reason ? Why not better ask Guru Acharya Radhanath Swami, he is the proper authority to give us correct answer. Maoor Dal or for that reason Carrot or Soya Bean they are all vegetarian food. They are Lord Krsna's creation. How can you ban them for no logic reason.
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  - Partab Parmar July 21, 2010 at 2:24pm
    
    @ mahesh kumar gandhi.prabhu,
    
    i m very much satisfy with ur reply,........there should have proper logic behind it..
- Dina-Anukampana Das > Mahesh Kumar Gandhi May 14, 2010 at 3:40pm
  
  it wd be nice to have an autorized answer.. i am not sure, but i have a vague memory about 'carrots' here being a mistranslation of 'radish'. and to add to this list.. i had heard once from a disciple of srila prabhupada that we shd not take the green brinjals ('eggplant' they call in in america).. never got to verify that though.. any light shed on this wd be helpful! It wd be nice to also find the original puranic ref. for that story about the cow's flesh.
  
  mahesh prabhu, pls excuse me for saying this, but in a vaishnava forum like this, we aspiring devotees wd do better not to throw words like 'childish' or 'How can you ban them for no logic reason.' I don't see anyone in this discussion trying to impose a ban upon you or anyone - it is a sincere enquiry, that's all. It wd be so much more palatable to, as my guru mahraj said, think ten times, think 100 times, how will the other person feel, before we speak... pls forgive me for saying this but may we all become more gentle in our speech and more loving in the art of communicating. Actually the internet, email and especially SMS are the worst means for personal communication. And we are a Personalist movement. So it is best i think to not unnecessarily get 'personal' in our remarks - lord krsna is very intolerant of any offence even to His most inignificant devotees.. wishing you all the best, i remain your humble servant, dina.
  - saurabh garkoti > Dina-Anukampana Das May 30, 2010 at 8:03pm
    
    very usefull thanks prabhu
    - Dina-Anukampana Das > saurabh garkoti July 18, 2010 at 12:51am
      
      you are most welcome, prabhu. hare krsna! :-)

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