Dog Food or Gourmet Meal

Meditationtime Forum Post

Date:  Posted 3 years before Apr 20, 2016

MiBeloved 3 years ago

I had an opportunity recently to be in a home where the people were similar to the persons whom I took this present body from. By the grace of these people by their services to the embryonic, childhood and juvenile stages of this body, I have this body now.

Therefore only appreciations are due from me to these people for the services rendered. A human body is such a complex machine that if one gets it, one should, rightfully, appreciate the persons who were involved in building it and tending it to the adult stage.

As an accomplished yogi in my past life, I was stupid in a way to give in to the pressure for me to take another material body but all the same the services rendered to that body to bring it to maturity were tremendous, and that I appreciate.

However there was a pot of food which they prepared. I happen to walk pass that food and when I looked at it two impressions appeared. The first was that it was dog food. The second was that it was edible and desirable and would give great happiness and satisfaction.

So which is valid?

This food was a potato stew which had chunks of fried chicken flesh in it.

So how that is possible that in a toddler/infant body a certain food was desirable and in the same body after it changed by the performance of yoga austerities the same food appears to be suitable for the canine species?

Which vision is correct?

Alfredo 3 years ago

I believe both visions are correct depending on the circumstances of the development of each entity. The toddler before had to accept the conditions prevalent at the time in that household where Rajas and Tamas predominated.

Later on, through yoga austerities, these conditions shifted towards sattva, and now the food looks like dog food.

Swami Hariharananda, for example, took birth in one of those rare conditions described in the Bhagavad Gita whereby both parents were yogis and his father was also wealthy. He was a lifelong vegetarian.