Passage 16

In English

What do you really mean by this or food? We look upon things like rice, fruits, vegetables as food. But this is not the case as such. Whatever you can possibly see in this world is food. And that food stuff which experiences and partakes of the food is also a type of food. So, here what follows is that food experiences food. The body, for instance, is food. And this which is food is partaking of something which is food. An animal or a beast is also a type of food. This beast partakes of some other animal as its food. So, here it is, food eating food. What you must keep in mind is what should be given to a particular system. Man, he feels, "I am a human being and I am eating this." This is ignorance on his part. Your body serves as food to some other entity. And that entity, in turn, is food for a third quantity. If you start looking at things, everything around you is food. But in this food, which is present all over, the Sattvic variety is to be looked at. The hallmark or the quality of this Sattvic food is that it is full of the Sattvic attribute. It puts you on the path of .