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Articles: My Thoughts | Read this if you are one who wastes food even little
- Mrs. sharmila Sanka
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Food is God, Do not waste
Food is the means for survival of any being to achieve the end. It is not very easy to give up practically. Infact many of us live only for food and we earn and save only for future food for us and for our children. Food is so easy and in reach for us that not even a day can we afford to live without it. Imagine there are lakhs of beings wihout proper food. We waste so much of it one way or the other. Food is God ,do not waste it.
We are fortunate enough that we have food any time we want, any type of food we want. We ought to have gratitude to God for giving us our daily bread and to ourselves for doing some good deeds in our past lives which are letting us have food every day.
I would like to quote an instance of Satya Sai Baba regarding food and its wastage.
Once, an elderly person had his food along with Baba and he went outside to throw the banana leaf on which he ate his food. He was throwing it from above the wall and he was astonished to watch the dogs and the poor people grabbing and fighting for the torn banana leaves. Tears rolled down his cheeks and he thought for himself thus. “Saibaba is God .Behind the wall of the Lord’s house , these people and dogs are equally fighting for the leaves containing little food? Isn’t he aware of all these? How is he standing all these?” Immediately he felt a pat on his shoulder and when he looked behind, to his astonishment he saw Baba smiling at him. Baba said, “ I know all the happenings. The beings you are watching are not poor as you think. But they were millionares in their past lives. Then they wasted lots and lots of food. Now they are searching for the food they wasted before.”
This really touched my heart and I was in tears of repentance and alertness never to repeat this mistake again in my life. Though some of you might not believe this, atleast for goodness’ sake do not waste food. Atleast out of consideration for others, come out of this habit of wasting food. Give it to the poor, needy or any dogs. When any empty stomach is filled, heart also gets filled with gratitude and love. What more do we need on this earth when living a human life than to see the happy and heavy hearts?
As Mahatma Gandhi said, 'There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.'
-Sharmila Sanka
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