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Meditation and Food
Blood is flowing in the body. Breathing is going on. Heart is beating. The activity of the whole body depends on the food. A delink with food results in the death of the body. Anyone can become a renouncer of food after making efforts, but he cannot renounce hunger. One can be a renouncer of water but it is very difficult to taken out the thirst from the body.
All the energy of the body depends upon the food. However, with the energy made from the food, no great constructive work can be accomplished and if the energy made from the food is excessive than required, then it will give birth to immoral deeds. The taste of food depends upon the hunger. The taste in the last morsel will not be the same as that in the first morsel. As we will go on putting morsels in the mouth one by one, the taste will go on diminishing accordingly because the hunger will decrease with each morsel. Hunger and taste are inter-connected.
Beauty and sexual desire are friends;
hunger and tasty food are tied together.
{SGGS, p 1288}
Meditation is a spiritual food. The jobs done with the energy made from the meditation, give solace to the world. The taste of meditation reduces the taste of food. Therefore the meditaters take less food.
They burn away the bonds of the world,
and eat a simple diet of grain and water.
{SGGS, p 466}
A person, who takes excess food, is called 'Glutton' and a person who does excessive meditation is called 'yogi'. A person, who takes excessive food, falls sick, but the meditation keeps the body hale and hearty. If a bigger line is drawn, then the smaller one automatically becomes shorter. Energy and taste obtained from meditation finishes the importance of food.
From the energy made from excess food, sex desire takes birth. But with the energy made from meditation, God is manifested in life. If a person is glad after taking excess food, then it is proved that, that person has no taste of meditation at all. Whereas the excess food connects with the immoral deeds, meditation connects with God. Satguru ji does not consider the life made out of food as the real life. Indeed he only lives who does meditation:
They alone are truly alive, whose minds are filled with the Lord.
O Nanak, no one is else is truly alive;
those who merely live shall depart in dishonour;
everything they eat is impure.
{SGGS, p 142}
One sufi saint says that eating and drinking is required to keep the body alive and the life is necessary so that you may go on reciting His name.
Khurdan braaee jistan jikar kardan ast.
Maulana Rome says that excess food makes the body fat but the excess meditation makes the soul fat.
Gar As Tuaam Aam main shabad Farbaa.
Tan Karim As Tuaam Aam Main Shabad Farbaa.
With the energy produced from food, a person snatches the morsel of the other person. But with the energy made with the meditation, a person sacrifices his life for the other person. Therefore, it is clear that energy made from food compels to snatch, while the energy out of meditation is for handing over everything. On getting the taste of meditation, life finds its summit and the aim of life is achieved.
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