Suryakshetra 301

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Dr P V Sesha Sai Aswamedhayaaji

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14th July 2007 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