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Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Going Vegan

Every time I bring up the topic of quitting dairy, I get one of the following responses from friends. Where did you get that weird idea from/ Oh it's very difficult to quit dairy/ you can not eat anything if everyone starts thinking like that/ oh come don't you know, you need all those proteins/ at least think about the little one you are feeding, how will she get milk (and this last one keeps making me wonder where did the cow get her milk from?)

I have been thinking over this for a very long time now... I would say almost an year. Finally I have made up my mind to my way to veganism. Quitting dairy is not the easiest thing to do in life.. especially when family, friends and media have always said milk is what you need. It has Protein and Calcium, etc. But who said the life's best decisions were easy. Personally sweet warm milk - is a comforting food for me. But someone is paying a heavy price to comfort me and that someone is not me alone.

Quitting milk, doesn't mean leaving just that pizza, yummy cup of chai, or that panner tikka, or that yummy dollop of ice-cream, or even that nice sweet warm glass of milk at night, or all those kheers or lassi, or ghee on top of the freshly made phooli phooli (round round) roti... it means a radical change in my way I look at food and provide it to my family. When I left meat and eggs 10 years ago, it were not the chicken or any of the other animals that had come to me to say - hey Deepti we are being very badly treated.... please don't eat us. Our beaks and cut off without anesthesia so that we don't harm other chicken due to lack of space to walk around. (I am serious - Not one of them came to me to say that we are being induced with artificial hormones so that we can grow three times our normal weight at twice the speed of our growth rate and that we don't like being in dark confined places just so that we can sleep all day and night and grow fatter faster.) Nor did coke or pepsi come to me and say Deepti did you try cleaning your toilets with us today. Do you know that xyz farmer tried using a can of us in their fields and found the same results that he finds with his pesticides. Oh and when we started our company we wanted our customers to keep coming back, which is why we added cocaine to our drinks For that matter neither of the formula companies make any attempts to tell me - Oh! We have spent billions of dollars on research in the last few decades, trying to make a formula that's even close to mom's milk... but have failed miserably. Please never buy me, if you can feed your child on your own. Do the producers of inorganic vegetables ask you - you moron! insects or pests are far more resistant than you humans. If they can be killed using urea and pesticides - don't you think your body is getting affected too? Did the kellogs cereal say - I am full of HFCS or did the fast food chains come and say - we are full of MSG so that you get so addicted to our tastes that you keep coming back to us. Did the baby wipes tell me why were they not flushable? No! Not becauase the wipe will clog the drainage systems. It's because they have harmful cancer causing chemicals which can pollute our water system and our drinking water. The companies producing and selling never once came to tell me to stop consuming them. After all WHY? And whats common in all of the above and whats any of that got to do with leaving dairy. Just one. Today we live in a consumerist society. The manufacturers are all too happy to meet the demand we as a society are creating, no matter how or at whats costs those demands are meant. The people meeting the demand are not paid by you to take care of their health - that's what supposedly your doctor is for - another questionable debate left for some other day!. They are here to make a profit and make a living for themselves. Be it on moral or ethical costs of humans or other mammals. Now comes the connection - why would the dairy industry ever come and say to me - will you please stop having dairy. It's not good for you. It's upto you to gather the facts and find out what should go inside your body.


History
India is where I come from. Traditionally in Indian villages, animals enjoyed the status of a family member; their birth, sickness and death bringing the same rejoice or grief as that of any other family member. Cows in particular were given the status of a mother, right from her milk to her waste was utilized. Sexual discrimination between calves was absent. If females were raised to become future moms; male calves too were raised to plough fields. Both the male and the female calves had the first and foremost right to their mom's milk. Any surplus which remained thus was then used up by the owner. Because of this unique and delicate balance there was no need to slaughter the surplus cows, because there were none to slaughter.

Since Then...
Things have come a long way since then. With urbanization and modernization, the holy cow has become a commodity. Her male child no longer needed, is kept anemic to produce the while tender veal meat - sold as a delicacy. His leather used for the soft leather sofas and leather car seats. The brain, skulls are other by products which slaughter houses have to some how get rid of are consumed by the cosmetics industry. (The Food and Drug Administration recently told cosmetics makers to stop using the brains and spinal cord tissue from older cows in products like lipstick and hair spray in order to try to prevent the spread of mad cow disease to humans. These same icky ingredients are “OK” if they come from cows younger than 30 months of age.)

In a normal lifespan a cow would produce 3-4 offspring over 20-28 years, producing around 1.25 gallons of milk a day after she delivers her child. Not anything close in today's so called industrialized age. Today the female cow is being artificially inseminated and impregnated repeatedly. She is still lactating when the next pregnancy is forced upon her. This shortens her life to mere 4-6 years. Thus 7 months in an year, the cows is both pregnant and lactating. In addition she is stuffed with the hormone - oxytocin - which makes her produce more than 11 gallons a day; much much more milk than she can otherwise 'manufacture'. Nothing of thing is human. When the male calf is taken away, ignore the physical trauma of separation of a mother from her young one, the mother now whose milk is quickly drying up is put on machines to her udders which keep tugging at her, long after; causing her immense pain and causing mastitis. Inorganic milk; courtesy companies like Monsanto; is even worst. In addition to the oxytocin, cows are also given the hormone rGBH to further increase milk production. This makes the cows super sick. They develop various kinds of infections and start producing pus. To counter effect the infection, the cows are then pumped with antibiotics. The rGBH even makes their bones weak adding to more infections they are caught of as a result. There is no end to the pain and suffering of a cow. So at the receiving end your daily glass of milk or coffee or tea, cup of yogurt, cheese pizza, icecream, paneer tikka(cottage cheese dish), sour cream, cookies etc. contain a cocktail or pus, antibiotics and hormones - all of which in the same milk which was not produced by the cow for YOU in the first place.



The Missing Piece in the Puzzle
You have must realized that suddenly a need has come up to have more and more slaughter houses opened up. Recently there's been a petition floating around to sign-up against the most recent one being planned to open in the state of Uttar Pradesh (birth state of Lord Krishna). India has one of the largest slaughter houses in Andhra Pradesh in Asia (or the world - not sure?) in the recent decade. So coming back to the extra male calves. So do we need so many slaughter houses for the extra male calves? NO. It's to get rid of all those useless female cows, which can no longer produce milk or babies after that tireless and continuous baby production and milk production business. God give peace to their souls, at least after death. Because if you thought this was all, you are wrong. In their lives, cows are made to stand their entire lives in one place, so that they can grow bigger and fatter. They dung is cleaned once a day and so they stand knee deep in their own feces, breeding more than just the e-coli bacteria, than one can imagine. Ultimately when these cows are sent to slaughter houses, no matter how nicely they are washed off...the e-coli still stays on them... which is passed to your hamburger (in the beef eating countries) Ever since American kids have started dying from the e-coli, the industry has found an innovative method. Treat the beef with ammonium-nitrate before being sold!! (By the way did you know that 'fertilizers' containing that substance have been banned in many contries)


Close your eyes for 5 seconds. Put one human being in place of just one cow and try to imagine the pain and suffering. Now multiply that pain and suffering with the millions of cows being tortured all over the world every second. And if all of this still does not move you, let me tell you something that will. You think your body needs all that protein. Well protein deficiency is such a rare condition, that there is no medical terminology for that word. Now what else - did you say you need calcium. Let me tell you - today's milk has way too much acid that your body can handle and the same bones which you think you are helping with are gradually disappearing because the bones have to release more alkaline calcium to balance the acidic pH of the body. Not only calcium, many other minerals leech out of your bones too. Speaking of which you can argue - we have had milk for thousands of years. If you come from the same country to which I belong to - you would even argue, Lord Krishna had butter himself. Milk and it's products are an inherent part of that food and culture. But my answer to that - I can only wish to have the kind of milk Lord Krishna and his friends had... but alas today there is none. Milk was the perfect food at one time, not any more today. We are not raising the same breeds of cows. The ones being raised lack the properties to produce satvik milk. Just remember as human milk is for the human and not for the cows... giraffe's milk is for the giraffe, bear's milk is for the bear, cows milk is good for the calves and not for humans any longer.


What Should I do? Where Should I Start From?

1. READ. READ. READ.
2. The first thing is to make informed choices of what to eat and what not to eat. It's not easy to break a generations old mindset of advice that milk is good for you. Be it for your own health reasons or for ethical reasons - be sure of what and why you are consuming something.
3. Start thinking of all the dairy products that you consume at your home, outside and at your friends place and make a list of the ones you can start eliminating easily. Then deal with the more tough ones.
4. Start slowly and do it one step at a time.
5. Also start reading labels of the groceries shelves. Demand for more vegan products. Demand drives the supply.

To have some of your doubts cleared, go here - indianvegan faq


Dairy is all over my kitchen. Where should I start.
Here are some Vegan Food blogs, to get some ideas to get started.

tongueticklers/ Join Via Facebook Here
hobbyandmore/ Join Via Facebook Here
holycowvegan/ Join Via Facebook Here
veganosaurus Join Via Facebook Here
vegweb
sanjeevkapoor
sharan-india.org/vegan-recipes
indianvegan recipes
tarladalal
thegreenstove
petaindia recipes


More Links
https://www.facebook.com/groups/indianvegans/
http://www.daiyafoods.com/

Where can I get more info
indianvegan
notmilk
meetyourmeat
sharan-india.org
Animal RIghts Fund India.org
daff.gov.au
Animal Aid Unlimited
change.org petitions male-calves-being-killed-for-profit/a>
DrFox's blog
The Vegetarian Resource Group
Help Animals India Join Via Facebook Here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QacVRLG0Pec
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBBFTpTMUbc&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYpafipJyDE&NR=1


In the life I have lived so far, I have done a great deal of contribution towards the torture of the dead male calf, the live female calf and their mother. It's time I changed and make an attempt to be that one drop in the ocean who stands up against cruelty towards the helpless speach-less cow who can not stand up for itself. It's up to you to read, ignore and continue to be on the side of exploiting animals wondering what can you do - after all isn't everyone else doing the same too? Or it's up to make an informed decision; to choose to be another drop in that ocean towards breaking the endless cycle of demand and supply and putting an end to this heartless cruelty.

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Sri Hanuman Chalisa - rendered in English & Hindi

Sri Hanuman Chalisa by Tulsidas
Rendered in English verse by Girdhar Gopal


Cleansing the inner mirror of my mind
Using grace from the dust of my Guru's lotus feet
I extol the glory of Raghuveer for whom I pine
He bestows the four famed fruits of Justice, Economy
Passion and Enlightenment to those who entreat !

I am lowly and full of ignorance
In the face of Hanuman 's infinite grace
Bless me O Hanuman,son of the Wind
Exterminate the dangerous calamities that I face

Hanuman, the ocean of knowledge and virtue
Victory to thee, O Lord of the monkeys
Victory to thee whose fame is well received
Far and wide, over the three worlds, perceived

O son of Anjani and of Pavana of the gusting Breeze
You are the messenger of Rama, his emissary
The master of immense strength that can never cease

Brave warrior of broad and vigorous stride
Your strength is sharp as the diamond's cutting edge
You are the cleanser of evil thoughts that enter inside
And companion to good ones that your good graces provide

O Hanuman of golden hue and royal apparel
Of glttering ear-rings and curly hair
You stand emblazened in majesty without compare

Holding the thunderbot and the flag flying aloft
Wearing the sacred thread of grass
That decorates the shoulders with bands of Munj, so soft.

O son of Kesari and Shiva's incarnate
Venerated and worshipped across the world so wide
For your lustrous valor that is impossible to hide

Erudite ,of good thoughts and worldly wise
You achieve Rama's wishes with great enterprise

You delight in hearing great tales of Rama retold
He ,Lakshman and Sita are settled in your heart ,so bold

You showed yourself to Sita in your tiny form, not to alarm
Then wore your terrible aspect, to set Lanka afire,to do Ravan harm

Taking Bhima's terrible form to kill the demons with ease
Thus completing His commands ,Sri Rama, to please

You brought the herb of Sajivan and saved Lakshman's life
And for that Raghuveer joyfully embraced you with pride

The Lord then praised you to the skies
And called you, brother, in his heart, equal
To where his own brother Bharatha lies

The Hydraheaded serpant, Sesa sings your praises
As do thousands of disciples of Raghu, raise their voices
So says, Sri Rama, while you, he embraces

The great sages Sanaka, and Brahma praise thee
And Narada, Sarada with Ahisa all extol thee

The God of death, Yama sings thy paens
So does Kubera who over all wealth, reigns
The Lords of the directions sing in your praise
So wonderous are your exploits, that they ascribe
Poets and scholars fall short, to describe

Sugriva's cause with Rama, you championed in your wisdom
Who by meeting Rama, attained his royal kingdom

As the world knows, Vibheeshan heeding your advice
Became Lanka's ruler, it was no surprise

As the story goes, the sun several thousand Yojanas afar
Your childhood fancy, saw it as fruit so sweet
And grabbed to eat it, as one would a special treat

With Rama's ring in your mouth, over the ocean you leapt
It is no surprise considering your devotion and the promises you kept

The world's problems that are most knotty ,are solved by you, with ease
Those solutions are simple as you make them,our troubles to cease

You stand guard at Rama's gate ensuring none could ascend
Without your protective and watchful consent.

All happiness and joy are gifted at your feet
With you as guardian why should one feel fear's heat?

Only you can control your immense power
Your fearsome bellow, make the three worlds cower.

Demons and ghosts, dare not come nigh
While Mahaveer 's name is repeated, in full cry

With repeated chants of Hanuman the brave
All diseases are cured and all pain is staved

Hanuman saves us from danger and calamity
When we pay him homage by our every faculty
And pray to him with mind, action and speech

The acsetic Rama is overlord of all
Whose tasks you achieve, both big and small

Your blessings are there for him who seeks your favor
You grant him grace and all life's fruits to savor

The four yugas feel your shining name
All ages of mankind do feel your fame
You provide light to the world for all, in His name.

Savior of saints and protector of hermits
Destroyer of demons and Sri Ram's bosom friend

You,the holder of eight siddhi powers over nature's laws
And the grantor of the nine nidhi boons of wealth material
Both powers granted ,by Janaki the mother celestial

You have the secret potion for the Lord's devotion
Forever will you remain Raghupathi's bondsman

Those prayers and chants to you, Ram finds quite pleasing
And removes, your followers' sorrow ,over many births, repeating

At life's end, the devoted will merge into Raghuvar's being
And when reborn, find fame as Hari Bhakthas, others describing

Foresaking all other Gods for attaining Hanuman's pleasure
Gives the seeker both happiness and joy beyond measure

Danger will be avoided and pain be removed
To whosoever that worships Hanuman, mighty and brave

All victory to you, victory, victory to you ,Hanuman the wise
Bless us in your mercy, godly teacher, for all to prize !

The one who repeats the Chalisa a hundred times over
Is released from human bonds of rebirth
And attains eternal bliss on this earth

And the one who reads this Hanuman Chalisa
Attains knowledge and witnesses the godhead of Gowri and Siva

I ,Tulsi Das for ever Hari's servant most humbling
Pray the Lord, finds his home in my heart, that is yearning

O Son of Pavana, Wind God, remover of dangerous calamities
Of auspicious beauteous form, may Ram,Lakshman and Sita
Reside in my welcoming heart, facing all eventualities


लीजिए पेश है श्री हनुमान चालीसा अर्थ सहित!!

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श्री गुरु चरण सरोज रज, निज मन मुकुरु सुधारि।
बरनऊँ रघुवर बिमल जसु, जो दायकु फल चारि।
📯《अर्थ》→ गुरु महाराज के चरण.कमलों की धूलि से अपने मन रुपी दर्पण को पवित्र करके श्री रघुवीर के निर्मल यश का वर्णन करता हूँ, जो चारों फल धर्म, अर्थ, काम और मोक्ष को देने वाला हे।★
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बुद्धिहीन तनु जानिके, सुमिरो पवन कुमार।
बल बुद्धि विद्या देहु मोहिं, हरहु कलेश विकार।★
📯《अर्थ》→ हे पवन कुमार! मैं आपको सुमिरन.करता हूँ। आप तो जानते ही हैं, कि मेरा शरीर और बुद्धि निर्बल है। मुझे शारीरिक बल, सदबुद्धि एवं ज्ञान दीजिए और मेरे दुःखों व दोषों का नाश कर दीजिए।★
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जय हनुमान ज्ञान गुण सागर, जय कपीस तिहुँ लोक उजागर॥1॥★
📯《अर्थ 》→ श्री हनुमान जी! आपकी जय हो। आपका ज्ञान और गुण अथाह है। हे कपीश्वर! आपकी जय हो! तीनों लोकों,स्वर्ग लोक, भूलोक और पाताल लोक में आपकी कीर्ति है।★
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राम दूत अतुलित बलधामा, अंजनी पुत्र पवन सुत नामा॥2॥★
📯《अर्थ》→ हे पवनसुत अंजनी नंदन! आपके समान दूसरा बलवान नही है।★
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महावीर विक्रम बजरंगी, कुमति निवार सुमति के संगी॥3॥★
📯《अर्थ》→ हे महावीर बजरंग बली! आप विशेष पराक्रम वाले है। आप खराब बुद्धि को दूर करते है, और अच्छी बुद्धि वालो के साथी, सहायक है।★
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कंचन बरन बिराज सुबेसा, कानन कुण्डल कुंचित केसा॥4॥★
📯《अर्थ》→ आप सुनहले रंग, सुन्दर वस्त्रों, कानों में कुण्डल और घुंघराले बालों से सुशोभित हैं।★
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हाथ ब्रज और ध्वजा विराजे, काँधे मूँज जनेऊ साजै॥5॥★
📯《अर्थ》→ आपके हाथ मे बज्र और ध्वजा है और कन्धे पर मूंज के जनेऊ की शोभा है।★
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शंकर सुवन केसरी नंदन, तेज प्रताप महा जग वंदन॥6॥★
📯《अर्थ 》→ हे शंकर के अवतार! हे केसरी नंदन! आपके पराक्रम और महान यश की संसार भर मे वन्दना होती है।★
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विद्यावान गुणी अति चातुर, राम काज करिबे को आतुर॥7॥★
📯《अर्थ 》→ आप प्रकान्ड विद्या निधान है, गुणवान और अत्यन्त कार्य कुशल होकर श्री राम काज करने के लिए आतुर रहते है।★
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प्रभु चरित्र सुनिबे को रसिया, राम लखन सीता मन बसिया॥8॥★
📯《अर्थ 》→ आप श्री राम चरित सुनने मे आनन्द रस लेते है। श्री राम, सीता और लखन आपके हृदय मे बसे रहते है।★
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सूक्ष्म रुप धरि सियहिं दिखावा, बिकट रुप धरि लंक जरावा॥9॥★
📯《अर्थ》→ आपने अपना बहुत छोटा रुप धारण करके सीता जी को दिखलाया और भयंकर रूप करके.लंका को जलाया।★
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भीम रुप धरि असुर संहारे, रामचन्द्र के काज संवारे॥10॥★
📯《अर्थ 》→ आपने विकराल रुप धारण करके.राक्षसों को मारा और श्री रामचन्द्र जी के उदेश्यों को सफल कराया।★
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लाय सजीवन लखन जियाये, श्री रघुवीर हरषि उर लाये॥11॥★
📯《अर्थ 》→ आपने संजीवनी बुटी लाकर लक्ष्मणजी को जिलाया जिससे श्री रघुवीर ने हर्षित होकर आपको हृदय से लगा लिया।★
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रघुपति कीन्हीं बहुत बड़ाई, तुम मम प्रिय भरत सम भाई॥12॥★
📯《अर्थ 》→ श्री रामचन्द्र ने आपकी बहुत प्रशंसा की और कहा की तुम मेरे भरत जैसे प्यारे भाई हो।★
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सहस बदन तुम्हरो जस गावैं, अस कहि श्री पति कंठ लगावैं॥13॥★
📯《अर्थ 》→ श्री राम ने आपको यह कहकर हृदय से.लगा लिया की तुम्हारा यश हजार मुख से सराहनीय है।★
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Thursday, June 30, 2011

Baby Wipes - How many harmful chemicals are you introducing to your baby?

Dear Parents,

I am a part of a wonderful group on Facebook called 'Indian Vegans' (any one can join the group), where someone shared this link http://www.ewg.org/skindeep/top-tips-for-safer-products/
(Vegans and talking about chemicals??? Yes - because the ones who care about animals and the environment are also the ones who care about whats going inside the human body, directly through food or from elsewhere)

Coming back to me - I think I will just kill myself from guilt today for having used baby wipes on my 2.5 year old son and 2 month old daughter since day one, simply trusting that why would companies put unsafe ingredients in a product manufactured solely for the most delicate skins.
(Can't imagine when I never ever trusted ready made baby or other food, western medicines, cosmetics including diaper creams or the rest - why did the wipes never struck me! )

You might say - why the fuss? After all they are just wipes, which touch the external skin - right? Wrong! - 60% of what you use on the skin, gets absorbed by the body!

I've been using Kirkland Baby Wipes - a brand which uses (common name:) *Bronopol (Chemical Name: 2-Bromo-2-nitropropane-1,3-diol) .
I also checked Huggies - which uses a equally unsafe chemical called DHDM - equally harmful
Couldn't find Pamper's wipes ingredients, but trust they wont be any better!

I also found a "recipe" for homemade paper wipes that the author has used for over an year.

http://parents.berkeley.edu/recommend/where2buy/diaper_wipes.html

Cut a roll of Bounty paper towels in half and remove
the paper tube core Lift up the flap that glues the
outside sheet. (You'll be using the paper from the
inside out though.)

1 rubbermaid 10 cup container (2.4 liter size) with
lid (score a "X" in the middle of the lid and cut out
a hole approx. 1/2" diameter)

1 and 3/4 cups of water
6 drops of lavender oil
3 drops of tea tree oil
1 tablespoon of sweet almond oil
1 tablespoon of dr.bronner's castile soap
Slosh the water, oils and soap around, drop in the half
roll of paper towel (it'll take about 20-30 minutes for
the water to be absorbed)
Pull out the center most towel an inch or so through
the lid, snap in place.

* (From what I gathered from various websites)
Bronopol is
•Banned in EU cosmetics: must not form part of the composition of cosmetic products
•A corrosive eye irritant
•Causes a moderate to severe dermal irritant in rabbits; moderately to highly toxic to estuarine/marine invertebrates; slightly toxic to estuarine/marine fish; slightly toxic to birds on a acute oral basis
•It becomes formaldehyde after coming in coming in aqueous contact (formaldehyde known to be a human carcinogen)
•Dangerous for the environment
• ... do you need more reasons or research or tests before stop using it on your delicate little one? If you do, there are a lot more not listed above.. if you just google. For me, I have just need to run to take care of my little ones.