‘If you eat wrong food…that involves violence’: RSS chief to non-vegetarians

TIL Desk/National/Nagpur/ Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Thursday said that one should not eat the wrong kind of food that would lead them to the wrong path.  Bhagwat was addressing a program organized by RSS-affiliated Bharat Vikas Manch, where he was talking about the development of personality.

“If you eat the wrong (kind of) food, it will lead you on the wrong path. One should not eat `tamasik’ food. One should not eat food that involves too much violence,” Bhagwat said.  Tamasic food typically contain non-vegetarian dishes.

There are people in India who eat meat as elsewhere in the world, but in our country, even those who are non-vegetarian observe restraint and follow certain rules, he said. “People who eat non-vegetarian food here do not eat it during the entire month of Shravan. They do not eat it on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays or Saturdays. They impose some rules on themselves,” Bhagwat noted.