Vegetarian Cuisine
CREAMY ITALIAN DRESSING
A thick, creamy salad dressing which contains protein from chickpeas. An ideal simple alternative to yoghurt dressings or commercial soy salad dressings. Serves 4-6.
Ingredients:
1⁄2 cup chick peas, cooked
6 tablespoons olive oil
1 teaspoon dried oregano (or fresh chopped oregano to taste)
Pinch of dried dill weed (or use small amount fresh dill instead of oregano)
3 tablespoons lemon juice
1 teaspoon salt
1⁄2 teaspoon pepper
Preparation:
1. Blend chickpeas in food processor until smooth.
2. Add all the remaining ingredients and blend again until smooth.
3. If necessary, thin with water or more oil to the desired consistency.
4. Chill before serving.
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.
Take Sattvic food only, such as rice, Dhal, bread, fruits and milk. Give up meat at once. Be tolerant. – Sri Swami Sivananda
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TYAGA – Renunciation
The mastery of the mind leads to the renunciation of all.
Chitta-Tyaga alone constitutes the renunciation of all. True renunciation lies in the abnegation of the mind. It consists in renouncing all desires and egoism and not world-existence. Through such a mental abnegation, you will be able to free yourself from all pain. Then will come immortality in life or enjoyment of the infinite delight of existence free from ego, founded on oneness of all in Brahman.
Renunciation of physical objects is no renunciation at all. The real Tyaga (renunciation) consists in the renunciation of egoism (Ahankara). If you can renounce this Ahankara, you have renounced everything else in the world.
Hope and Anticipation are the opposite of Vairagya and Tyaga.
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Seek the Bliss Eternal in your own Atman. – Sri Swami Sivananda