Vivekanand’s ardent desire for Beef

We are presenting the proofs compiled by Swami Vidyanand Saraswati to expose the most famous fraud sanyasi promoted by Britishers in British India of Beef Eating. The quotes are taken from Swami Vidyananda Saraswati’s book – “The Gospel of Swami Vivekananda”. That book is a compilation of proofs that exposes the hypocrisy & duality of Vivekanand.

Ardent desire for beef

We give below some of the arguments advanced by the Ramakrishna Mission in the Calcutta High Court to prove that the Mission and its founder, Shri Ramakrishna Paramhansa, had nothing to do with Hinduism and, therefore, they should not be treated as Hinduism –

“During his practice of Islam, Ramakrishna repeated the Mantra ‘Allah’ and said ‘Namaz’ thrice daily. During this while he also dressed and ate like a Muslim. Another biographical work ‘Ramakrishna Panth’ by Ashoy Sen provides some more news. A Muslim cook was brought who stood outside the kitchen and instructed a Brahmin cook inside made to wear a lungi, how to cook in a Muslim way. We are also told that at this time Ramakrishna felt a great urge to take beef. However, this urge could not be satisfied openly. But one day as he sat on the bank of the Ganges, a carcase of a cow was floating by. He entered the body of a dog astrally and tasted the flesh of the cow. His Muslim ‘Sadhana’ was now complete (because no Hindu, however fallen he may be, would like to eating the flesh of a cow, and that too of a dead animal which none but an ‘aghori’ ¼v?kksjh½ would do and that again by entering the dead body of a dog). All this is highly comic but it holds an important position in the Mission lore. The lawyers of the Mission did not forget to argue in the court that Ramakrishna was on the verge of eating beef. This was meant to prove that he was an indifferent Hindu and not far from being a devout Muslim?” (Times of India, Ahmedabad, Dated January, 23 1986)

Thus spoke Swami Vivekananda

To the accusation from some orthodox Hindus that the Swami was eating forbidden food (beef), he retorted – “If the people of India want me to keep strictly to my Hindu diet, please tell them to send me a cook and money enough to keep him.” (Bio, 129)

That Vivekananda had no love for his motherland, is crystal clear from his following words –

“I belong to the world as much as to India. No humbug about that. What special claim can India have on me? Am I a nation’s slave? I see a greater power than man or God or Devil at my back (that greater power has not been indicated). I require nobody’s help.” (Ibid)

“Swami Vivekananda advocated animal food for the Hindus if they were to cope at all with the rest of the world in the present reign of power and find a place among the other great nations.” (Bio., P. 96)

“I say eat large quantities of fish and meat.” (Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, V. 402)

“Is God a nervous fool like you that the flow of the river of his mercy would dry up by a piece of meat? If such be he, his value is not a pie.” (IV, 359)

“We must use the food which brings the purest of mind.” (I, 136)

“There are certain kinds of food that produce a certain change in the body and in the long run have a tremendous effect on the mind. There are certain foods which are exciting. If you eat such food, you will find that you cannot control the mind.” (IV, 4)

“To eat meat is surely barbarous and vegetable food is certainly purer – who can deny? For him surely is a vegetarian diet whose one end is to lead spiritual life. But he who has to steer the boat of his life with strenuous labour, must of necessity take meat.” (V, 485)

But Vivekananda should know that vegetarians have more energy and stamina. The use of the word horse-power against tiger-power makes it clear. Vivekananda wanted lo lead spiritual life. Why was he then a non-vegetarian? In fact it was his weakness which he did not defend. He said – “I am myself not a vegetarian, but I admit that vegetarian food is ideal for man. When I eat meat, I know that I am not doing the right thing. But I won’t defend my weakness at the cost of an ideal. The ideal thing is that we should avoid taking meat. After all, even animals are our own self.” (Vedanta in practical life, P. 12)