Vegetarian Cuisine
MEDITERRANEAN SALAD – Serves 4 as light main course or up to 10 as a side salad.
Mixed salad variety with added Mediterranean ingredients olives and feta cheese and vegetables for textural crunch. The dressing gives herbal freshness and fennel adds anise flavour.
Ingredients for Dressing:
1 to 2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 to tablespoons olive oil
1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
1/2 tablespoon fennel seeds, crushed
A few sprigs of fresh cilantro, finely chopped
1/4 teaspoon salt
Pepper to taste
Ingredients for Salad:
4 ounces romaine lettuce and/or spinach, torn into small pieces
20 ripe olives, pitted
10 ounces green beans, lightly steamed
2 tomatoes cut into wedges, or 10 cherry tomatoes
1 cucumber cut in chunks
3 carrots, cut in thin sticks about 2 inches long
3 sticks of celery, coarsely chopped
1 cup cubed or crumbled feta cheese or substitute with 1 cup sunflower seeds
Few sprigs fresh parsley to garnish
Directions:
1. Combine the dressing ingredients in a small bowl and set aside to let the flavours blend while assembling the salad.
2. Mix salad and vegetables, add feta cheese (or sunflower seeds), add dressing, mix well and serve garnished with sprigs of parsley.
This recipe is an edited contribution for the Sivananda Gurugram, sourced from The Yoga Cookbook: “Food for Body and Mind – Recipes from the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres” – 1999.
Enrich your blood through Japa, Kirtan, Meditation, Sattva, Pranayama, Asanas, tomatoes, grapes, spinach, pure air and sunlight. – Sri Swami Sivananda
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Glossary
NIMITTA: an instrument; a sign
There are three types of nimitta:
Parikamma-nimitta – also known at the preparatory sign, this is the perception of an object at the beginning of concentration
Uggaha-nimitta – also known as the acquired sign, in which the mind reaches a mild degree of concentration with an unsteady or unclear image
Patibhaga-nimitta – also known as the counter-sign, where a clear and static image is a sign of pure concentration.
Nimitta Bhava – an instrument-in-the-hands-of-the-Lord attitude
When the thread of Ahankara is broken by ‘Aham Brahma Asmi’ Bhavana or Sakshi Bhava or the self-surrender method by taking the Nimitta Bhava (instrument-in-the-hands-of-the-Lord attitude), all the Indriyas will be broken down or destroyed. The connection with Indriyas will be severed.
Serve everyone with intense love, without the idea of agency, without expectation of fruits, reward or appreciation. Feel that you are only a Nimitta or an instrument in the hands of God. Worship God in the poor and the sick. Have no attachment to any place, person or thing. Keep up mental poise amidst the changes of the world without consideration of success or failure, gain or loss, pleasure and pain. Have the mind always rooted in the Self amidst activities. Then you will become a true Karma Yogi. – Swami Sivananda
A weak will is overpowered by the strong desire. Reduce your desires and live contently. – Sri Swami Sivananda