The nursery of Ayurved is kitchen

  House does not mean a structure made of bullets concrete and cement but its walls must make us feel daughter we are safe inside it because our home is the place which protects us from the harshness of season and weather like cold hot rain and it also provides us opportunity to peacefully enjoy company of our family members. And when we are talking about another space inside home that is called kitchen then we must understand its importance in a family. Whether someone has to welcome guest or serve delicious food or it is to protect family members from diseases in every condition our kitchen plays a vital role because in India kitchen and shows not only good taste but also good health for every member of the family. This is the reason why in our scriptures kitchen has been called aushdhalaya or a kind of dispensary. When there was no effective way to confront the challenge of Corona and even allopathic doctors had also surrendered in front of this challenge then it was our Indian Kitchen where foodstuffs prepared with medicinal values had amazingly protected the health of crores of people especially when things were prepared in the kitchen according to to the methods of our grandmothers who knew the secrets of good health hidden in our healthy food. And members of such families who used this method did not require any serious meditation even after been infected by coronavirus. They got cured from infection by using the age-old methods of our grandmothers. Therefore we should not see our kitchen just as a place where food is cooked but it is also the nursery of of our good health and Ayurveda because here we can cure many diseases very easily. 

Laboratory

The third strain of covid infection is widely being predicted and the season of festival has already arrived when people often become sick by eating an healthy food while some others adapt wrong methods of holding fast like holding fast has been described as a method to keep our self healthy but in the name of holding fast people eat and drink lots of sugar made food that may cause health hazard for them. At the same time if the proper method of holding fast is followed then it detoxifies our body and improves our health and also provides us new energy and gives us healthy and strong digestive system and our body becomes clean both internally and externally and it gives us new energy of life to fight diseases.

Therefore in the method of naturopathy holding fast has been described as a great method and at the same time it is unfortunate that our present generation does not know how to hold fast due to switch the use wrong methods like eating very sweet and fatty food while holding fast and nobody take care of the fact that the purpose of holding fast is to purify our body. Due to adopting wrong methods of holding fast people increase their cholesterol level and it may also lead to the problems like diabetes. It is also unfortunate that people are being fooled by the restaurant owners who served pizza burger cutlet by claiming that these can be eaten during time of holding fast as this had been cooked in the kitchen with special methods according to the rules of fasting. It is utterly wrong as eating such food stops during fast is a breach of the norms suggested in our scriptures. Here it is requested that you never allow such things to happen with you. 

The hub of taste

In today's modern time Indian women who work in the kitchen are under tremendous pressure to cook food according to process followed by restaurants and hotels because the number of people who are crazy for taste is growing very fast in every family and for them taste is more important them their health due to which the expectations from our kitchens in our families have greatly changed. Inter result our kitchens have turned out to become the hub of taste which is far away from good health as our kitchens are expected now to be e set up according to the style of the market which is improper as search food has never been good for our health and they also do not provide the real taste of food therefore it is well said that the kind of food we will eat similar will be our health. But how many things are getting to be changed because earlier in the past hotels used to to advertise by claiming to serve food like homemade which showed the importance of homemade food and now these days things are totally changed and in our Pursuit to copy the style of hotels we are also trying to claim that we make food like hotels in our kitchens how about medical science has also explain in detail about the health hazard of fried food, spicy food, fast food,.preserved food, eating late in the night, eating meat, etc. and expressed serious concerns about our changing food behaviour even then people are are continuously getting away the methods of cooking food. In this situation the woman of about families who take care of our kitchen and food prepared there are faced with machli ka challenges taking care of tasty food according to the demand of the family members at the same time they also have to maintain a proper balance of good health in the food.

The house of rules

You must remember that people use the word called Chauka for kitchen event today and there had been so many rules for the use of kitchen like nobody entered the space of the kitchen without bathing or with footwear etc therefore it is now important for us to understand the the science of our kitchens and the rules associated with it. It is a well-known fact that our women are the members of our family who to properly manage our kitchen and every member of the family depend upon them for good tasty and healthy food therefore everyone is endebited to the woman who took care of the process of cooking food. Even today the Rasoi Ghar of my childhood is still in my memory when it was called Chauka and not the kitchen where everything is Messy. My mother used to start cooking food and when she ruled to make chapati all our brothers and sisters used to start making rounds of her and the whole management of the place where food was cooked was into the hands of my mother and for my brother position of sun in the sky was her watch because she entered the kitchen with the first Ray of sun on the earth who by then I had completed all her morning ablution and she got engaged in the kitchen and also in the evening by the time son sets she used to prepare the evening food and modern science today also says that eating food late in the night is bad for health. In India kitchen is commonly called Chauka which I could understand very late as it was the place for which my mother had set and almost all the mothers in every family cats 4 rules that means when how much how and what and this four rules are to be followed by every member of the family and that time we did not know that she also used to follow the rule of of good food healthy food and food according to the season.

Centre of cooking food

Since beginning in my family there has been preparation of two types of food that means one is prepared for the daytime and that was called Kachcha and another one is the food that was cool in the evening and it was called pakka but in my childhood days I was not able to differentiate between the two however I could understand it very late the difference which means the combination of boiled rice pulses chapati vegetables curd pappadam and salad was called Kaccha food and in this combination a proper care was taken about the quantity of protein carbohydrate fats and fibre in the food. For example pulses contained protein that was necessary for our health and it takes long time in digestion therefore it is included in the daytime food while in the night the food which contained abundance of vitamins and minerals was stopped in the dinner that could get digested quite easily which was called pakka food. 

Yagyashala the place of of performing Yagya

I often think that my mother never talked about Maharshi charak aur Ayurveda even then a lot of knowledge about the nutrition of food and about the types of food used to cook food with such a great love and affection that it's taste was amazing and it cannot be compared with any other food. There has been one more thing about my mother's food that was before serving the food my mother used to offer a part of it first to God and then it was served to us. Since the food that we eat everyday was first offered to God that was the reason why all the ingredients were pure and in such a manner that it was full of of purity which has been similar to the way we prepare Prasad for God then there is service station a religious occasion at our home and first chapati was the offer to mother cow. The purity and sacred place of our kitchen was really great and the organ store was lit in such a manner that it seemed to be like a Havan Kund. But in today's modern lifestyle we are people often say that they are very busy in this Lifestyle Yagya Shala and Havan Kund have already been forgotten and such performances really takes place On special occasions and nobody ever thought that there can be a permanent Yagya Shala in every household therefore we must be grateful to respected Swami Ji Maharaj and respected Aacharya ji that they have shown us the path of Yagya through Patanjali Yogpeeth and Swami Yagya Dev Maharaj has lete the Havan Kund of Yagya and from a new beginning people are showing interest in knowing about all these activities and methods.

Rasayanshala

We might have today forgot l the methods which were followed earlier by our ancestors and those methods might appear to us useless but after many decades we cannot ignore that those methods of kitchen work where is Pacific and full of scientific methods which ensure your happiness and good health of every household. Together we understand this speciality of the kitchen or not but the world understands it quite well because on one hand these methods keep the whole family together on the other hand the kitchen is also a place where food full of medicinal value is prepared. Here Rasayan means the study of Rus that means the uses of food and it might be that in today's world people are getting attracted towards the fast food like pizza burger Chaumin Momo etc but none of these are are comparable with the traditional Indian food on the basis of taste and health benefits. This is the reason why the way people are getting attracted towards yoga Ayurved and Naturopathy these days the same way Indian food will also be Vande very popular across the world because even today wherever you go you will find Gujarati Punjabi Rajasthani South Indian food because they are pure and very nutritious. 

School

From market point of you many colleges and Universities are providing education in hotel management and also giving Diploma and degree courses to their students and many renowned brands are contesting in this field but they can never match the methods of cooking food at home in our domestic kitchens and well we talked about our domestic kitchens then the women were taking care of the management there are also called Annapurna and they don't require any certificate even then their talent and their knowledge is unmatched with any degree holder student of Hotel Management because these women are not only cook but they also know a lot of health benefits of the food which they used to cook at home which is bhai in front of their knowledge degrees of the university and big research centres are unmatched and this can be tested at any point of time because even in the period of Corona when the world witnessed a s s train give knowledge of kitchen of Indian women protected corrodes of lives and saved India from losing the battle. 

Ayurvedshala

In India people have knowledge of not only cooking food but also they know what kind of food can cure which kind of disease and this knowledge has continued for so many generation because this stream of knowledge has been passing from one generation to another generation as the formula of our grandmothers who never go to any institute to learn this knowledge. During the time of joint family these formulas were used alot but in today's time of nuclear families people have been going away from the methods of cooking food and it is a reality that cardamom cinnamon cumin seeds fenugreek fennel seeds etc kept in the kitchen were used not only for enhancing the taste of food but in our ancient scriptures these spices are described as the greatest sources of good health like in charak Samhita and also in Vedas and Puranas the word that has been used for this is my face is aushadhi which means medicine. Actually the words like masala and zyka are not our words but they are foreign words and this Herbs are in fact herbal medicines for good health. In ancient India these medicines were widely used in cooking food and such descriptions can be found in sushruta Samhita therefore the ancient most Ayurvedic scripture on food and health can be recognised as  Sushrut Sushrut Sanhita. In many Studies and Research it has been found that Indian food in which proper quantity of diesel medicinal Herbs are used contain sufficient quantity of sodium, calorie, fat intake and they also give us. However at the same time the most be careful about the use of their quantity in our food for good health.

The centre of poison

It is not that in our kitchen only medicinal ingredients are used but we have also included many poisonous ingredients like white sugar salt Maida which means fine flour polished rice polished pulses refined oil which are very dangerous for our health therefore if it could be possible we must stop using them in our food immediately otherwise we will always be caught by Eye diseases quite fun in our life it is a fact that 30 40 years ago people used Bali millets names to prepare chapati but these days people have started eating wheat flour to prepare chapatis and it is grinded very finely and very fast which is the reason why the number of of diabetes patients has been on the rise and it is advised that we must bring down the use of wheat flour and start using multigrain flour which is also provided by our Ashram and it contains abundance of of fibre in the form of choker and coarse flower is also good for our health but fine flour is neighbour good for our health as it gets stuck in H intestine and disturbs the whole digestive system therefore we must stop using it besides we should also try that the rice which we cook in the kitchen must be unpolished and other food grains also must be unpolished so that we could be able to confront with the problems like arthritis as the number of its patient has been on the rise always and as far as refined oil is concerned it is highly responsible for the heart related diseases and heart attack is caused due to it therefore the manufacturers of cooking oil may make false claims but we should not get trapped in there deceptive campaigns and we should use cooking food in pure cow ghee mustard oil and oil off of alsi sesem seeds coconut etc otherwise nobody can save our heart from getting failed. 

Centre of utensils

We have talked a lot about eating food and cooking food and the methods of cooking but it is also important to select proper utensils to cook food as without this knowledge we will never succeed in cooking healthy food. Every metal has got its own qualities because in the ancient time effluent people used the dishes of of gold Selva brass and copper but in today's world things have got drastically changed due to rising prices aluminium plastic and non stick very harmful for our health and it has been found in research that if food is cooked in bronze only 3% of its nutritional value is lost and the water kept in copper pot if consumed can cure liver related problems at the same time if food is cooked in in people then it will never allow the problems of gastric and Cup to strike you while the food cooked in the ironport also increases the health and even Steel pots are also so good for health but using aluminium for cooking food is very bad for health because aluminium affects our kidney directly and earlier people used to say that aluminium pots if used for cooking food will invite 48 kinds of diseases. Therefore it is unfortunate that today in most of the families people are using pressure cooker which is made of aluminium utensils made of aluminium which are bad for our health but the best alternative would be the earthen pot as the food cooked in earthen pots are best from health point of view and we can find such descriptions in ayurvedic scriptures and modern science also supports it because food cooked in organ part provides 100% nutrition.

We may call our kitchen as a laboratory, a centre of Taste , a centre of rules, a centre of cooking food, centre of Yagya, centre of medicines , a centre of knowledge, centre of Ayurveda or a centre of poison or a centre of pots but keep in mind that whatever is cooking in the kitchen gets in the body of every member of the family and builds the body therefore our kitchen is more than anything but it is the centre of knowledge , the centre of good habits and above all it is a centre of construction of a family.