It's said, way to man's heart is through his stomach. Some of people are so much foodie as if aim of their life is to keep eating different varieties of food. Many times their life is just centred around eating and that's why we find so many channels, shows and serials on TV related to food, showing how to prepare food and how to relish it. So many arrangements for eating, five star restaurants, food courts, dhabas, hotels and so many new food items they invent everyday to attract customers(there is special engineering branch for this). This is the only business which will be never under crisis because there will be always a demand for food. What not people eat to satisfy their tongue, they don't leave even their own foetus, dogs and cats (Yulin Dog Meat Festival, China). I remember one person while dying he was saying, I want to taste that pizza...
History mentions that there was the king who was so much attached to the eating that after one meal he would take some medicine to vomit that food, to get ready for another meal. It's also said 80% of diseases are due to improper eating habits, so this particular King died at very young age, his own food became poison for him. We find 4 common things between humans and animals, eating,sleeping, mating and defending. So if we also only engage ourselves in these 4 things then we are no better than animals. We have got prerogative of intelligence over the animals, which shouldn't be only used to taste the foodstuffs but to make spiritual enquiries.
Bhagavat purana explains, “Just as a fish, incited by the desire to enjoy his tongue, is fatally trapped on the fisherman’s hook, similarly, a foolish person is bewildered by the extremely disturbing urges of the tongue and thus is ruined.” Tongue is vary voracious and unconquerable but if tongue is controlled then all senses can be brought under control which is the aim of yoga sastra. The same food which we are enjoying can entangle us in this material world, so one has to understand what should I eat and what I shouldn't? Only eating shouldn't be our aim, Gita says one has to be regulated in eating habits.
Don't take me wrong I am not against eating but our scriptures explains eating can also become holy sacrifice, which can benefit us to attain higher realisations. 'Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for soul'-says Dorothy Day. What's this food for soul, it's Prasad, mercy of God. When we eat for our own enjoyment it's a sin but when we prepare food and offer it to God and then accept it as his mercy it's devotion, now this food is not only for body but it nourishes the soul too. There are so many examples showing just by eating food offered to Lord Krishna people attained highest perfection of life. So don't centre our life around only eating but also focus on goal of human life, that doesn't mean you don't eat but you honour Prasad to progress on devotion to Lord.
Article by Rupesh Gauranga Dasa
Sent by iskcondesiretree.com
History mentions that there was the king who was so much attached to the eating that after one meal he would take some medicine to vomit that food, to get ready for another meal. It's also said 80% of diseases are due to improper eating habits, so this particular King died at very young age, his own food became poison for him. We find 4 common things between humans and animals, eating,sleeping, mating and defending. So if we also only engage ourselves in these 4 things then we are no better than animals. We have got prerogative of intelligence over the animals, which shouldn't be only used to taste the foodstuffs but to make spiritual enquiries.
Bhagavat purana explains, “Just as a fish, incited by the desire to enjoy his tongue, is fatally trapped on the fisherman’s hook, similarly, a foolish person is bewildered by the extremely disturbing urges of the tongue and thus is ruined.” Tongue is vary voracious and unconquerable but if tongue is controlled then all senses can be brought under control which is the aim of yoga sastra. The same food which we are enjoying can entangle us in this material world, so one has to understand what should I eat and what I shouldn't? Only eating shouldn't be our aim, Gita says one has to be regulated in eating habits.
Don't take me wrong I am not against eating but our scriptures explains eating can also become holy sacrifice, which can benefit us to attain higher realisations. 'Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for soul'-says Dorothy Day. What's this food for soul, it's Prasad, mercy of God. When we eat for our own enjoyment it's a sin but when we prepare food and offer it to God and then accept it as his mercy it's devotion, now this food is not only for body but it nourishes the soul too. There are so many examples showing just by eating food offered to Lord Krishna people attained highest perfection of life. So don't centre our life around only eating but also focus on goal of human life, that doesn't mean you don't eat but you honour Prasad to progress on devotion to Lord.
Article by Rupesh Gauranga Dasa
Sent by iskcondesiretree.com
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