Spiritual Quotes On food

The world can never survive without dependency (avalamban). Some dependency or another is needed. The mind needs food. The one who has become free of dependency has become free.

Rotla (bread) and vegetables (food) are to be eaten for the purpose of putting out hunger, not for taste. If you eat for taste, then you will not like to eat. It will become a thing to suffer (ved). This world is rotting due to the three sufferings (due to the 3 veds (genders)).

Sahaj (natural and spontaneous) means a state that is completely free of effort being made. There is no problem when tea and food come to you without any effort on your part.

What is brahmacharya (celibacy through the mind, speech, and body)? When that which has been filled in [the food we eat] does not get discharged [the final extract of food; semen], that is brahmacharya. In fact, the one whose input (puran) is under control can practice brahmacharya!

All the things in the world are such that they regress to a lower level. Virya (the final extract of food) alone is such that if one so desires, then it can ascend!

People say that a person has a fever, when [in reality] the fever is leaving! The fever which accumulated within the body as a result of abnormal food, the body’s vitality power then creates the fever for the purpose of purification.