Satvic mind, food etc.

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Dear friends , to add to this discussion i have just come across the following

verses from the

garland which seem apposite

 

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Dear Friends , I have come across these verses from the Garland which seem

apposite in this

discussion

 

 

 

 

One is food oneself,Not knowing this

If one imagines that one eats it ,

One is consumed by food and then

Becomes but food for an insatiable hunger.

 

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The food we eat eats us ,Those who know not

This truth desire and eagerly enjoy

Earthly pleasure thinking that they eat it

While in truth they are being eaten by it .

 

 

P>S>An appropriate grace before meals is "to eat without ego is Ramana's prasad"

 

Regards to all Alan

 

 

 

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Dear Alan,

food - from another aspect as becoming food fit for God/the Self:

 

Sri Ramana once said to one of the ashram cooks:

"You must cover your vegetables when you cook them.

Then only will they keep their flavour and be fit for food.

It is the same with the mind.

You must put a lid over it and let it simmer quietly.

Then does a man become food fit for God to eat."

(Sampurnamma in: Ramana Smrti, 1st ed.)

 

In HIM

Gabriele

 

 

 

 

RamanaMaharshi, Alan Jacobs <alanadamsjacobs> wrote:

> Dear friends , to add to this discussion i have just come across

the following verses from the

> garland which seem apposite

>

> 590

> Dear Friends , I have come across these verses from the Garland

which seem apposite in this

> discussion

>

>

>

>

> One is food oneself,Not knowing this

> If one imagines that one eats it ,

> One is consumed by food and then

> Becomes but food for an insatiable hunger.

>

> 591

> The food we eat eats us ,Those who know not

> This truth desire and eagerly enjoy

> Earthly pleasure thinking that they eat it

> While in truth they are being eaten by it .

>

>

> P>S>An appropriate grace before meals is "to eat without ego is

Ramana's prasad"

>

> Regards to all Alan

>

>

>

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[Guest guest]

Dear Alan,

 

Yes, yes, wonderful. All these food metaphors are from

the Upanishads. Have you discovered the Taittiriya

Upanishad yet? The final two verses:

 

.. I am the food, I am the food, I am the food;

.. I am the eater, I am the eater, I am the eater;

.. I am the link between, I am the link between,

.. I am the link between.

..

.. I am the first among the visible and the invisible.

.. I existed before the gods. I am the navel of

.. immortality. Who gives me, protects me. I

.. am food; who refuses to give me, I eat as food.

..

.. I am this world and I eat this world. Who knows

.. this, knows.

 

There are intellectual histories of the Upanishads

that explain these metaphors in terms of the older

Vedic ritual religion, in which food was sacrificed

to the gods by burning it in fire. Hence the ego

is food, its renunciation is sacrifice, meditation

(tapas) is fire, the result is realization, the identity

of atman and Brahman is the identity of food and

eater, etc.

 

Intellectual stuff, it seems.

 

But when we think of what food must have meant in

ancient times, when people were so poor that death

from starvation was common -- does it not bring

tears to the eyes?

 

For years, Bhagavan was the head cook at Sri

Ramanasramam. He woke every morning at 2 am

to cut vegetables.

 

Does it not bring tears to the eyes?

 

Best regards,

 

Rob

 

 

-

"Alan Jacobs" <alanadamsjacobs

<ramanamaharshi>

Wednesday, September 18, 2002 5:43 AM

[RamanaMaharshi] Satvic mind, food etc.

 

 

>

[Guest guest]

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Dear Rob , yes ! thanks . Another quote from the garland 679

 

With moderate sattvic diet grows

One's sattva.hence such diet is

A potent and sufficient help

In self-enquiry.Why, then , alas ,

Run after various other restrictions

And get but more confused ?

 

Regards Alan

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Dear Alan,<BR>

<BR>

Yes, yes, wonderful.  All these food metaphors are from<BR>

the Upanishads.  Have you discovered the Taittiriya<BR>

Upanishad yet?  The final two verses:<BR>

<BR>

..   I am  the food, I am the food, I am the food; <BR>

..   I am the eater, I am the eater, I am the eater;<BR>

..   I am the link between, I am the link between,<BR>

..   I am the link between.<BR>

..   <BR>

..   I am the first among the visible and the invisible.<BR>

..   I existed before the gods.  I am the navel of<BR>

..   immortality.  Who gives me, protects me.  I<BR>

..   am food; who refuses to give me, I eat as food.<BR>

..   <BR>

..   I am this world and I eat this world.  Who knows<BR>

..   this, knows.<BR>

<BR>

There are intellectual histories of the Upanishads<BR>

that explain these metaphors in terms of the older<BR>

Vedic ritual religion, in which food was sacrificed<BR>

to the gods by burning it in fire.  Hence the ego<BR>

is food, its renunciation is sacrifice, meditation<BR>

(tapas) is fire, the result is realization, the identity<BR>

of atman and Brahman is the identity of food and<BR>

eater, etc.<BR>

<BR>

Intellectual stuff, it seems.<BR>

<BR>

But when we think of what food must have meant in<BR>

ancient times, when people were so poor that death<BR>

from starvation was common -- does it not bring<BR>

tears to the eyes?<BR>

<BR>

For years, Bhagavan was the head cook at Sri<BR>

Ramanasramam. He woke every morning at 2 am<BR>

to cut vegetables.<BR>

<BR>

Does it not bring tears to the eyes?<BR>

<BR>

Best regards,<BR>

<BR>

Rob<BR>

<BR>

<BR>

- <BR>

"Alan Jacobs" <alanadamsjacobs><BR>

<ramanamaharshi><BR>

Wednesday, September 18, 2002 5:43 AM<BR>

[RamanaMaharshi] Satvic mind, food etc.<BR>

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