Respect Food, Waste it!

Paramahamsa Nithyananda

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By Staff

Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 12:26

Overeating is a modern disease. People think that it is alright to eat more vegetarian food. Let us be clear here. Overeating is bad. Be it vegetarian or meat. Overeating creates a lot of problems for us. We have never learnt to eat only what we need. We should be firm and eat only what we require and how much we need. We overeat because of our greed. Vegetarian food is the best for people interested in spiritual practices.

Vegetarian food digests easily and promotes good energy in our body. It helps in gentle energy flow connecting all the chakras or energy centers in our body. The compassion of Buddha led to the wide acceptance of vegetarian food. A further refinement of vegetarian food is dining on what is called as satvic food. People on satvic vegetarian diet avoid jalapeno peppers, onion, and garlic. These vegetables contain steroids. They are all right as medicines and ingested in small quantities once in a while. Regular intake of these vegetables interferes with the energy flow in the chakra.

Overeating has the same effect as eating jalapeno peppers, onion, and garlic. When we overeat, we stuff food and make our body a trash bin. As if that pain was not enough, we end up wasting a lot of our body's resources in processing it inside us. My devotees consider it a privilege to feed me. They pile my plate with many varieties of food. They expect me to eat it all up! They advise me not to waste it. They expect me to clean up the plate.

Be clear: wasting food outside is better. It is better to leave the food outside our body than getting the excess food inside our body. We will waste ourselves from within if we stuff ourselves with food. When we decline the food in the plate, it remains outside. Others can share it. But, if we stuff ourselves with food, we are serving ourselves a double dose of harm. The excess food is wasted in the body. Our body has no use of it even as it sits in our body.

We are exhausting our body's resources in processing it. If we overeat, food becomes a poison. When something is consumed in excess, it becomes poison. The food, instead of nourishing, can become poisonous. It is better to decline excess food than to consume it. Be aware of what and how much you eat! If you respect food, your body will respond by being respectful to you!

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