Suryakshetra 301

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SURYAKSHETRA 301

 

What this little man speaks……

 

For reasons beyond my control this paper did not appear in front of you for

the past I believe six months or so. So also “Dr sesha Sai’s Believe it or not”

has taken much time to come to you. Any way I do not know whether it shall be

proper on my part to write on “food grains” as each of us knew what it is.

However some instances have come to my notice on seeing which I could not but

write this.

 

I may have to take up sacred “Fire” initially. As a nitya agnihotri, I love

“Sacred Fire” and I call Fire as “Sacred” for the simple reason that the

CIVILIZATION STARTED only with fire. Looks amazing, but soon after getting usp

from bed in the morning, every one of us have to go for Fire for making a cup of

Tea or Coffee or for preparation of food. The word “food” is associated with

“existence” and some of you might be remembering my first letter way back twenty

years ago or so where I mentioned a quote “Hunger makes hard beans sweet”. Any

“life” on the earth is associated with food. The fact remains, most of the

human beings selected “food grains” and its other “forms” as main food.

 

May be, you are all aware that Lord took lot many pains for creating the “food

grains”. Imagine once, the land to be ploughed, seeds to be planted, nursed,

it should come up safely and flower, bear fruit- this is one part, the next part

being, collection of the grains from the field by the farmer, middleman,

wholesaler, retailer and ultimately a few grains to our house and out of which a

very select few to our food bowl or meal plate. Millions of insects help in

this process, besides timely rains, water resources, friendly attitude of nature

and so on. Thus I BELIEVE THAT YOU WOULD ACCEPT THAT there is a great story

behind a fistful of food we eat. Hundreds and thousands of seen OR unseen

beings help us to live long and they are responsible for keeping our hunger at a

far off place.

 

When this much story is there behind a simple “food grain”, these days

whenever I visit houses, I observed children leaving lot of food items in their

plates while parents remain as silent spectators. I have seen this tendency

both in India and in USA too. Some elderly people, like grandparents and such

others in the houses too feel like purchasing peace instead of telling children

about the fact of life with a fear of becoming bad for the inmates of the

houses. Please think whether it is proper for us to ignore these facts or

whether it is proper for children to disrespect the food available to them.

Can’t we consider this as a basic educational foundation?.

 

Second important point here is, there are millions of people on the Globe with

hungry stomach, and please think that instead of wasting food at our end, is it

not proper for us to share a part of our food with other “less fortunate” people

on this earth? Does our wastage not amount to a crime against the starving

stomachs? There cannot be a better donation than “ food donation”, let us

accept.

 

I shall be back again soon……

HARA HARA MAHADEVA

DR P V SESHASAI ASWAMEDHAYAAJI

 

Dr P V Sesha Sai Aswamedhayaaji

Camp: Memphis TN USA Cell 9015929130 E mail shodasisai website:

www.ashwamedhayaagam.org,

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14th July 2007