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Speaking with each other and reacting with each other in a robot or parrot-like manner is deadening for both speaker and listener.
Right Eating
Swami places great emphasis on what we eat, how much we eat, where we eat, when we eat, how the money is earned to purchase the food, who prepares the food, and our state of mind when we prepare and eat the food. He says that food determines the shape of the mind, and the mind is the key to transformation. Food determines what we become and is of three qualities: sathwic (purity, calm), rajasic (anger, greed, feverish activity), and thamasic (sloth, dullness). The quality of the food determines the qualities in our personalities and minds. Swami has said that even if we go on pilgrimages, read sacred books, and engage in spiritual exercises, we will
not experience desirable effects unless we change the food we are eating.
What exactly is sathwic food? Food that confers bliss to the body, mind, and heart is sathwic, that which sustains holy living, that which keeps one light even at the end of the meal. The sathwics are satisfied with one meal a day. Rajasic nature demands continuous feeding on hot stuff, tasting sour, salty, or pungent. Thamasics appreciate cold, stale, acrid taste; pungency in the food heightens feelings of pugnacity, aggression, and vindictiveness in men against those who oppose, disagree with, or disappoint
them. (Sathya Sai Speaks XVI)
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