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And tamatar ka soup in the same book.

There was a quote in another thread that milk mixed with salt is unofferable.

From Prabhupada:
Letter to: Aniruddha
'97
San Francisco
9 April, 1968
68-04-09

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Milk and salt should never be mixed, it is improper, and will cause leprosy. But salt can be mixed with yogurt.

Yes, I know, I read this, but in many "bona fide" Hare Krishna cook books are salty milky soups and sauces....hm hm...,interesting.....

Im not sure, but according to ayurveda usually when they say dont mix this with thas is as it is, just plain milk with salt.

maybe it is not like that when there are some other ingredients but I dont have proofs of this hehe

Some devotees said it becomes like meat. Prabhupada did say milk is transformed blood, so probably related to that in some esoteric way.

How about cream?

What about white sauce, that is made from milk or cream?

Hmm... its depend..can be made from milk or from cream also. Cream, joghurt or curd...this is not problem.

as far as i understand, this instruction (not to mix milk with salt) refers to milk itself, not to preparations that contain milk. if you add milk to some other stuff, subji, soup, in most cases the milk will become denaturalized, i.e., it wont remain milk. itll curdle or change in some other way.

ill ask kurma prabhu from australia, the world famous hare krsna cook. he runs a blog where he answers questions. (dont have the URL at my fingertips right now; ill provide it with his reply.)

ys phani.

I asked Jayapataka Swami about this letter some years ago, and he gave an interesting insight.

First, some context. Srila Prabhupada wrote that letter to Aniruddha because it had become common practice for devotees to add salt to milk that had been burned while boiling it. Adding salt to burnt milk has the effect of getting rid of the burnt taste.

Amala Gauras hint about the blood is the angle that Jayapataka Swami took. He told me that he wasnt familiar with this particular instruction of Srila Prabhupada, but that milk is a transformation of the blood of the cow. The difference between the milk and the blood, however, is that milk is sweet, and blood is salty. So adding salt to milk makes it again like blood, as Amala Gaura points out.

Its probably not a good idea to develop a taste for blood... :-)

> Its probably not a good idea to develop a taste for blood... :-)
Maybe the same could be said about soya beans because they taste like meat...

>Maybe the same could be said about soya beans because they taste like meat...

Youre probably referring to all those "vegetarian steaks" and "vegetarian pork" or whatever. I dont know what they taste like, as the analogy is disgusting enough for me to avoid such products, but if they taste anything like tofu then the only "meaty" thing in them would be their name, look and probably texture.

In the Pancaratra Pradipa it says milk with salt alone is not to be offered

mixed in other food, even with milk present, it is acceptable to Krishna

hmmm...but how dou know ?:o/

how do i know it is in the book?

I read it on page 63 under "forbidden food"

Common forbidden foods include.... ....and milk with salt in it**

in the page footer there is this

**Salty preparations like soup which include milk are allowed.

So I guess I only know as i read it : )

Leprosy is caused by a specific bacteria. You can drink all the salted milk you want to, and you will never, never, never get leprosy.

Good God, please enter the 21st century. You are tainting the entire movement with your silly superstitions.

a= ...and we landed the moon..
The most amazing one: if Armstrong was first to walk to the moon, then who filmed him walking down the ladder? Who is the gullible here?

...and illness is not caused primarily by bacterias entering you by some bad luck. Bacterias are there by the millions, always. It is the wrong milieu of the body that permits them to thrive. So, eating the wrong things can and do trigger illnesses. But that is another question...
http://www.pariprashnena.com/discussion/259/what-are-the-real-causes-of-illness/

Armstrong was supposedly filmed by a module-mounted TV camera. http://www.clavius.org/mesacam.html

it was kubrick who shot it.