Q. 284: Gurudev, can you please tell us the importance of ‘Ahar Vihar’, food and lifestyle to be maintained in every changing season. How does it impact us?

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

Ancient people have done a lot of research on that. Also the modern nutritionists have done quite a bit of research, and if you go and Google, you find a lot of things on what to eat in this season. Today all knowledge is available on the fingertips, correct! According to Ayurveda there are Vaata, Pitta, and Kapha seasons. Now when the summer comes, it is the Pitta that will go high, so you have to take things which calms the Pitta. Nature is such that it produces only those things which are good for that season. Like in winter pumpkins and gooseberries grow. These are necessary for winter and in summer, they cut watermelons and sugarcane and make sugarcane juice. This is the season of watermelon. Watermelons never come in winter and they would not grow watermelons in winter. Watermelon comes up only in this season, now.

So the fruits, vegetables and everything, nature has done it in such a way to suit us according to the time and season. But now, we have gone so far away from nature and our body has also gotten adjusted to that. Otherwise when you are in a climate where bananas, papayas and mangoes grow, apples do not grow. But now we also eat apples here. We bring apples from other regions. Where apples are grown, bananas don’t grow there in the same climate. Pears, apples, peaches, berries, strawberries and cherries, they all grow in one climate. Is it not? But you will see people in those climates eat papaya and bananas, which don’t grow there. That is the ideal thing, but you do not need to worry about it because now your body is used to apples, pineapples and everything, but in one meal you take only those things together. Suppose you are taking bananas, papaya, chikoo and coconut, they all go together. They are tropical fruits. Then at another time you can eat apples, pears, cherries and as such.

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