For those wanting to develop spiritually, they should know that the quality of the
food eaten helps determine their spiritual awareness.

The Bhagavad Gita classifies food as being of three types.
Fresh foods of a high vibration are called sattwic foods. These foods are best
for the spiritual seeker. These are foods like most fruits and vegetables, milk,
yogurt, ghee, many seeds and nuts, some spices. Eating sattwic foods in moderate
amounts makes the mind calm and serene.
Foods that make us feel active and passionate are called rajasic foods. Many people
who are involved in dynamic activity -- business people, police, military, etc.
resort to rajasic foods to give them the energy to get through the day. Rajasic
foods include heavily spiced foods, meats, and liquors. Onions and garlic are
good for health, but they are also rajasic - they create a lot of activity in the
mind and body.
Foods that make the mind and body feel dull are called tamasic foods. Food that
is old and stale (leftovers) take on a tamasic quality. Even food that is of a
rajasic or sattwic quality takes on tamasic qualities when eaten in excess. The
person who eats and becomes a "couch potato" is probably consuming tamasic food
- food that makes them just want to sit and do nothing.
It is good to remember that to progress on the spiritual path, it is best to only
consume sattwic foods. Since almost all food contain psychic impurities of one
kind or another, it is essential to offer it to God before consuming it, in order
to purify it.
To experience refined spiritual states, the body needs to produce the subtle chemicals
of soma and ojas. The Vedas emphasize the consumption/digestion of a little ghee
(clarified butter) each day to help produce these chemcials.
Jai Sai Ram.

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