First of all you have to clear your mind - why you are practicing yoga. What is the purpose? If you take yoga a physical exercise, build up your muscles, be physically strong, the diet will be different. In this practice as you focus on the muscles, strength, power, endurance, stamina, you have to take sufficient protein, vitamins, carbohydrate, minerals, etc. to maintain your body. But when you relate you practice with physical and mental both, the diet system should be changed. Yoga is a blend of philosophy and science. So, modification of diet and improving our eating habit is very essential in Yoga. It is said that the purity of mind depends on the purity of diet. But in modern life the diet may be modified according to many factors. Climate, way of life and availability of food are most important among those factors. Even these factors support you, to keep good yoga body, you have to avoid wrong eating habit, such as eating too much, eating too fast, eating too hot or cold, not eating balanced food or having hot discussion when eating, etc. Remember all these are external. It's most important to assimilate the food. Feeling full is not that important when you eat, feeling satisfied is more important. And one more important thing is , only eat when you feel hungry.
Yoga is purely an Indian Sadhu culture. As the availability of the varieties vegetables in India is easier and the Sadhus and Gurus proved that it's easy to practice yoga, if you are vegetarian, so in yoga to be a vegetarian has become a culture. But again in some yogic path ( like Tantra sadhana ) you no need to be a pure vegetarian.
At present, yoga has become more international. People exploring yoga and trying to adopt yoga in their lifestyle. In that case some times it is difficult for a practitioner to be a pure vegetarian if he is is from a place where all live on meet only.
In yoga, the main purpose of asking you to be vegetarian is because they want you to be nonviolent. Which is a very important teaching in yoga? The first stop of Ashtanga yoga is Yama and the first step of Yama is talking about Ahimsa of nonviolence. So eating meat 'tamasik' food is not the only message of nonviolence. It's only a path. Even thinking violent can destruct the focus. The most important thing is to be full conscious about your action. If you know what you are doing and if your 'vivek' ( properly educated conscience ) agree with it, just go ahead.
One of the most important purposes of doing yoga is to store energy in out body. But when we eat meat, out digestive system needs lot of energy to assimilate it. So, instead of storing energy , we are misusing the valuable energy by merely choosing wrong good. Satwik of proper vegetarian food can help us to restore the energy and we can use the energy for better purpose. It is also not a good idea to be vegetarian in over night. If you want a change, take time, or this sudden change can trouble your body and mind. Even can help to grow up ego, so taking easy can help you to show your right path.
Yoga is purely an Indian Sadhu culture. As the availability of the varieties vegetables in India is easier and the Sadhus and Gurus proved that it's easy to practice yoga, if you are vegetarian, so in yoga to be a vegetarian has become a culture. But again in some yogic path ( like Tantra sadhana ) you no need to be a pure vegetarian.
At present, yoga has become more international. People exploring yoga and trying to adopt yoga in their lifestyle. In that case some times it is difficult for a practitioner to be a pure vegetarian if he is is from a place where all live on meet only.
In yoga, the main purpose of asking you to be vegetarian is because they want you to be nonviolent. Which is a very important teaching in yoga? The first stop of Ashtanga yoga is Yama and the first step of Yama is talking about Ahimsa of nonviolence. So eating meat 'tamasik' food is not the only message of nonviolence. It's only a path. Even thinking violent can destruct the focus. The most important thing is to be full conscious about your action. If you know what you are doing and if your 'vivek' ( properly educated conscience ) agree with it, just go ahead.
One of the most important purposes of doing yoga is to store energy in out body. But when we eat meat, out digestive system needs lot of energy to assimilate it. So, instead of storing energy , we are misusing the valuable energy by merely choosing wrong good. Satwik of proper vegetarian food can help us to restore the energy and we can use the energy for better purpose. It is also not a good idea to be vegetarian in over night. If you want a change, take time, or this sudden change can trouble your body and mind. Even can help to grow up ego, so taking easy can help you to show your right path.
