In English
Be clothed in divine qualities to approach God
Pungency in food heightens feelings of pugnacity, aggression and vindictiveness in men, against those who oppose, disagree with or disappoint them. Such men are worse than scorpions and snakes, sharp swords or serrated saws. It is tragic that factional conflicts arise even among persons claiming to be devotees of God. Often, such men behave as if they are desecrating God by deserting Him. When their desires do not fructify as and when they arise, when their faults and failings are laid down before them in order to warn them, or when they are directed to give up the wrongs they are fascinated by, they turn away from God in a fit of fury! There are two types of men - the (the godly) and the (the demonic). The Rajasik persons are . The directs us to adopt, as the very first , the rule: ("Do not hate any single being"). To approach God, one must be clothed in divine qualities. When it is sinful to hate a fellow-being, what shall we say about' hating God? Live in the love of God - (stability, awareness-communion). Devotion arises in the constant mind, not in the agitated, kaleidoscopic mind. showers Grace only on those who surrender wholly. The purification of the senses of perception and the senses of action, the mind and the intellect and the sublimation of the ego-consciousness will happen spontaneously, once the attitude of total surrender is strengthened. That which we consume through the mouth is food. We consume also through the eye, the ear, the nose and the skin. That food too has to be Sathwik, purifying and not pungent or stale and corrupt.