08 Sep 2021
[Smt. Priyanka asked: Pādanamaskāram Swami, Thank You so much for Your extreme divine blessing to give us this golden opportunity to have one on one conversation with You, to get our doubts clarified directly by You. Swami, here are more such doubts, awaiting Your divine clarification. Thank You so much for everything, Swami. This question is regarding using food items for physical beauty care. When we use food items such as fruits, vegetables, flour, milk, honey, etc., for bathing or skincare, is it considered wastage of food? Until recently, only these substances were used for self-care. There were no commercial products like today. Even though the situation is different today with plenty of options available in the market, some of them are full of harsh chemicals and people may still choose to use natural substances from their kitchen. Is this considered a sin in today's context because all the items can be consumed as food instead?]
Swami Replied:- Beauty is always a gift given by God, which can’t be enhanced by using food materials or chemicals. When beggars are dying with hunger, how far it is justified to waste food materials to increase physical beauty, which is really not increased. The internal beauty is love, which is the basic material of all good qualities and one has to take care about this internal beauty, which will lead the soul to the grace of God.
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