Imagine being told that eating brinjal or cauliflower is a spiritual crime. Not corruption, not violence, not injustice — but vegetables. Religious texts are weaponized like diet charts, and babas scream louder about food than about morality. Somewhere along the line, faith that was supposed to elevate your soul has been reduced to monitoring your stomach. And this obsession isn’t divine; it’s man-made — a control system disguised as purity.
1. The Vegetable Villains of Faith
One day it’s onion and garlic, another day it’s brinjal and cauliflower. The list keeps expanding depending on which baba is speaking. Instead of guiding people towards justice, compassion, or equality, we’re lectured about vegetables as if salvation lies in your thali.
2. religion as a Recipe Book
Our scriptures weren’t written as diet manuals, but centuries of interpretation have made them sound like one. What you eat, when you eat, and how you eat suddenly matter more than whether you cheat, oppress, or exploit. Food has become the lazy shortcut to claim holiness.
3. Babas and the business of Purity
Let’s be real: it’s not the Puranas shouting about brinjal. It’s the self-proclaimed gurus who have turned dietary restrictions into a performance of purity. The more complicated the rules, the more dependent you become on them for “guidance.” It’s control masked as spirituality.
4. The Great Distraction from Real Issues
Why talk about caste injustice, gender inequality, or corruption, when you can keep people busy fighting over onions and garlic? Food politics is convenient because it divides people, keeps them guilty, and shifts attention away from the failures of those in power.
5. god Doesn’t Care About Your Plate
If there is truly a divine being, do you think they care whether you ate cauliflower or brinjal today? The obsession with food purity is human-made nonsense, not cosmic law. Morality, compassion, and justice matter infinitely more than the vegetables on your plate.
🔥 Bottomline: Faith was supposed to liberate, but our babas have reduced it to food policing. Instead of turning religion into a kitchen surveillance system, maybe we should worry less about brinjals and more about becoming decent human beings. Because god doesn’t count vegetables — only we do.
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