Food and the Mind - HH Sri Sri Muralidhara Swamigal
Once upon a time,
there was an ashram and a sage came to this ashram to perform dhyana. Daily as
he started to meditate he would begin to think what's happening in the world
today, the politics etc., He wondered about this as he was not a worldly sort
of person at all. Such a person being amidst the ashram surroundings,
meditating, performing namasankeerthanam to get this thought. When meditating
however there are two kinds of enemies - one is the enemy from outside, one
from the inside - the vasanas that surface within us. If you see a thing and
desire it, thats the enemy coming from the outside. When there is nothing,
nothing outside but something springs up from inside and thats the internal enemy
our vasanas. So when this worldly thinking distrubed the sage no end every day,
he went to meet an elder there and described this problem. The elder told him
to go and find out who is preparing his food daily and what his activities are.
The cook who prepared his food daily would read the newspaper as he was cooking
and stirring the pot. The cook had a lot of interest in reading all newspapers
in the morning. So when a person like this prepares food the person consuming
also will get the same, all this may sound as fun but this is true. Such gunas
will come to stay in our mind. Food and body are connected, Food and mind are
connected. How the mind operates so the heart acts. Sometimes when our hinduism
is mentioned they would jokingly call this as a kitchen religion. Radhe Radhe
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