Eating as a spiritual path

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I think you have the wrong person. My name isn't Sandra.

[Guest guest]

Sanda,

 

Reading your last post made me walk over and grab the Upanishads. The

Taittiriya Upanishad (from food to joy) talks about food. I also contains

my most favorite passage in written history. Pardon me while I quote a

couple of lines:

 

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O Lord of Love, reavealed in the scriptures,

Who have assumed the forms of all creatures,

Grant me widsom to choose the path

That can lead me to immortality.

May my body be strong, my tongue be sweet;

May my ears hear always the sound of OM,

The supreme symbol of the Lord of Love,

And may my love for him grow more and more.

 

Lord, may I grow in spiritual wisdom,

And may I have food and clothes and cattle.

May students come to me from far and near,

Like a flowing river all the year;

May I be enabled to guide them all

To train their senses and still their minds;

May this be my wealth, may this be my fame.

 

O Lord of Love, may I enter into you,

And may you reveal yourself unto me,

The pure One masquerading as many.

You are the refuge of all devotess.

I am your devotee. Make me your own.

 

That is my favorite, but this is what your article reminded me of. Sorry

this is so long, but bear with me.

 

Part III 10.5

 

The Self in man and in the sun are one.

Those who understand this see through the world

And go beyond the various sheaths

Of being to realize the unity of life.

Those who realize that all life is one

Are at home everywhere and see themselves

In all beings. The sing in wonder:

"I am the food of life, I am, I am;

I eat the food of life, I eat, I eat;

I link food and water, I link, I link;

I am the first-born in the universe;

Older than the gods, I am immortal.

Who shares food with the hungry protects me;

Who shares not with them is consumed by me.

I am this world and I come this world.

They who understand this understand life."

 

This is the Upanishad, the secret teaching

 

OM shanti, shanti, shanti.

 

Brightest Blessings,

 

Adam