Spiritual Blossoms - 15

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Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai

Baba says:

 

13. On Food:

 

The prayer " Brahmaarpanam Brahmahavir Brahmaagnu Brahmanahutam Brahmeva

Tena Gantavyam Brahma Karma Samadhinaha" is recited (repeat aloud or declaim

from memory) at the time of offering. When food is offered thus to Brahman it

becomes sacrificial food, or prasaadam (divine food). Before the offering it

was merely delicious food, after the offering it becomes prasaadam (divine

food). It becomes sacred (dedicated to a God). It has no impurity or defect any

more when it is prasaadam that is eaten.

 

You should eat to the extent that the

stomach can accommodate the food comfortably. If you eat to excess, it leads to

indigestion. Sometimes we don't observe discipline and we don't follow the

command of the stomach. When you pray before eating with the prayer "Brahmaarpanam

Brahmahavir Brahmaagnu Brahmanahutam Brahmeva Tena Gantavyam Brahma Karma

Samadhinaha", you always get the Divine reply from inside "Aham Vysyanaro".

That means you should eat to the extent needed. But because the food is tasty,

you may eat more than you need. Vysyanaro will caution (attention to

safety) you. "Don't eat any more! Don't eat anymore!" If you load yourself with

too much food, you will get breathless and sick. Sickness leads to other

disease. When the stomach is upset, it will give rise to other complaints.

Therefore a part of your stomach should be kept empty. When this is followed,

your eating is under discipline. Every day you should observe this discipline.

All that you do from morning till evening – sitting, standing, walking,

everything should be under discipline. Then your life will be a disciplined

life and this is the yoga of Karma (person's actions in previous lives,

believed to decide his or her fate in future existences), which will give you

all the skills you need in life.

 

 

Sairam,with love......................

 

Cheese.....................................

 

Raju.