Daily Messages

“One of our pet subjects in our country is as to what satvik food we should take, what rajasik or tamasik food we should avoid. Finally it made even Vivekananda complain that this was kitchen culture of ours. He made this statement in a humorous way; he did not mean anything bad about it. What he was trying to tell is that don't make much fuss about who is serving it or who is making it. As you digest it, it becomes part of your good food, because the satvik food is one which is taken with a feeling that it is a prasad. The concept of prasad is very common for all of us and traditional homes you know; in no traditional home they eat food without offering it to God. Without naivedyam they will never do; they will not take it. Today we have no time to think like that. I was telling you in the case of marriage, so is the position even at home and fast food centres have become so very common today you really don't cook at all at home, so there is no question of somebody cooking and somebody eating. We eat something in between but whatever it is, whatever we eat at least my appeal would be at least think that this is what God has given you for that day and then be happy to eat it because most of us while eating go on shouting at the other person talking some nonsense etc., this you should avoid. At least at that time you can think about God and then simply eat, enjoy your eating atleast, if nothing else whatever little we have. SriRamchandraji Maharaj tries to bring in another concept here. He says that every second some cells are dying some new cells are being born and so when the new cells are having this type of power to support, the divine power to support, you become more and more satvik and you become more and more divine. This is one more concept of SriRamchandraji Maharaj which he brings in here and then explains. I think it is something that is everybody, every person, irrespective of whether he follows Ramchandra he does not follow Sri Ramchandra, he can easily practice this. This is one thing that we can always practice without any difficulty, nothing very difficult about it to follow and it does good. At least it makes you digest your food well, minimum health requirement is satisfied. Second thing that I personally found is it definitely transforms your thinking, you start thinking differently. These changes come to you over a period of time, nothing comes overnight. Today I have taken like this, tomorrow morning I will test, you will not be in a position to test like that. Over a period of time you will succeed in this.”

— Ref: LEPAM - 115