A thought for Food & food for Thought -Part 1 of 7

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Dear friends,

 

"All this world is verily "annam", Food" -- is a

famous saying from the sacred Upanishads. Most of you

know exactly what the old wisecrack, "Money makes the

world go around" is meant to convey. If one were to

paraphrase it and say instead, "Food makes the world

go around", one would get a true, although less than

full measure of the profundity of the Upanishadic

statement.

 

"annAdvai prajA prajAyantE

yAh kAscha pruthiveem srithAh

athO annae-naiva jeevanti

athaina-dapiyan-yant-tathah:

 

annagum hi bhUtAnAm jyEshtam...

 

annAd bhUtAni jAyantE

jAtAn annEna vardantE...."

 

(Taittiriya Upanishad: "Anandavalli")

 

(meaning):

 

"Know this to be truth:

Everything that lives was born from Food

lives on Food

and in the end,

shall merge into Food!

Food is verily the greatest amongst all Creation!"

 

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If you take a moment to look all around you, you will

see at once that all this world runs on Energy -- from

motor-cars and airplanes to air-conditioners, toasters

and cell-phones. And all the energy needed to run the

world is generated by a precious thing called "fuel".

Without "fuel" -- whether fossil, thermal,

hydro-electric, wind or nuclear -- without fuel, even

the best model to roll out of a Cadillac assembly-line

in Detroit is little more than gleaming metal junk.

 

Planet earth has about 6.5 billion human beings. In

much of their normal functioning, be it plain

locomotion, strenuous manual work or great creative

thinking, human beings are not unlike machines. They

need "energy" too -- "prANa" and lots of lots of it.

Humans need to guzzle energy just to be able to simply

carry on in life. What generates this "prANic energy",

the Upanishad says, is "annam", Food. A human being

with no "prAni-c" fuel inside to energize him/her is

just about as worthless as a Cadillac with no fuel in

the tank. One is just beautifully engineered junk

while the other is biologically evolved junk.

 

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(to be continued)

 

Rgds,

 

dAsan,

Sudarshan

 

 

 

 

 

 

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