Daily Messages

“As has been said above “Morality is generally understood as a system of principles that guides us to survive and thrive as individuals.” In order to survive we have necessarily to eat and drink. The misfortune of human life is that even though we are provided with enough we fight amongst ourselves. If the Hindu principle of 'enough is enough' is followed there is no conflict and war. Master used to say we have been provided enough according to our need and not according to greed. Master in his commandments lays much stress on food earned through pious and honest means. The philosophy involved in this injunction Master states “starts from materiality and ends in the final state we all have to arrive at. A happy disposition is a state which percolates its effect upon the lower layers and purifies them. This is a state which may aptly be taken as that next to the Divine. Fixing our thought on it means taking into account that which is our final goal. In other words, we begin from the point beyond which remains but That alone. This is the warp and woof which has been interwoven by Nature herself.” “Now we fix it up in our thought at the time of taking our food, so the effect filters down on the substance which is there. When we eat it, the effect taken in by it enters our body and begins to spread all through our veins and arteries. In other words we have utilised to our best purpose the thing which we take in from outside. The particles and atoms of the body begin to get purified. The impulse of thought created thereby combines with the food, and helps to promote our physical and spiritual health. The power of Prana being all pervasive, nothing is free from its influence. It is inside the food as well as outside it.”

— Ref: Life of High Morals