dadavani - Self Realization In 2 Hours

eating the food that is there on the table at
home.
Maximum obstacle is only this much;
everything else is not much of an impediment.
Keep eating fried spicy fritters (bhajiya), eat
laddu (sweet ball) too if you want to. But
after eating that too, there is a trouble, that if
you do not fast after eating, your chit will
remain towards vishaya (sensual pleasures),
the body will turn forcefully. If you were to
fast again then eat joyfully. So one has to set
the account of this, right? Our Gnan is such
that, it can be set.
There is no harm in eating extra helping
of food. Food is the support of our body. If
the food is good and if you eat more then
there is no problem. There is no problem if
you eat more rotlo, daal-rice-kadhee (soup).
If it is tasty, and if you eat, if they are filled
with taste (swadishta), then also there is no
problem. But there is a problem in eating
these ‘ornamental’ things. Milk, ice cream
etc., are ornamental. But mind is always
absorbed in ornamental things only, is it not?
Beware of ornamental food
Questioner: You talked about this
food; it means that in whatever thing the mind
is excessively stuck to (wants and remembers
again and again), that is verily considered
ornamental…
Dadashri: Where the mind is stuck is
verily ornamental.
Questioner: Now what if someone’s
mind is stuck in rotlo only!
Dadashri: No problem of that. There
is no problem if it is stuck in rotlo.
Questioner: Now if someone likes a
spicy-hot item.
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Dadashri: No, there is no problem for
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that.
Questioner: In short, should one not
eat pushtikarak (that which increases flesh
mass, in this context) food?
Dadashri: That is a problem, if the
mind is stuck in that.
Questioner: Milk?
Dadashri: Yes, all that. There is harm if
the mind is stuck in that.
Questioner: Any kind of nourishing
food?
Dadashri: Intention. With what
intention the mind is eating? That You have to
‘see’.
Intention of the mind in food
Questioner: So what kind of intention
of the mind should be there in food?
Dadashri: One should take just enough
food to heal the hunger, till the hunger signals
stop.
Questioner: Yes. Everything is included
in this thereafter. Is it not? Now what else
remains? This is the final thing.
Dadashri: Udaya (unfolding) is of
what? Then the answer is, of hunger! Unfolding
of the (karma of) hunger. There is a problem
until the hunger is satisfied, in that there should
not be any other interference. The rise and
unfolding of hunger means the hunger should
be satisfied. So if it happens to be rotlo (thick
dark flat bread) or daal-rice, whatever you
get, and if there is shrikhand (dessert made
with yogurt and sugar and saffron and
cardamom) and puri (deep fried wheat bread)
then so be it.