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In plain words
At times scenes that you ought not to see appear to you in dreams. Not only in dreams; they appear even in dhyāna. This is nothing but a fault of the food. Such faults arise from the food, and from the person who provided the food. That is why in ancient times brāhmaṇas rich in good conduct cooked for themselves. We must eat food that is free of fault. But it is hard for us to know whether food is free of fault or not. So, before eating,
Brahman is the offering, Brahman the oblation, offered by Brahman into the fire that is Brahman; Brahman alone is reached by one absorbed in action that is Brahman.
Becoming Vaiśvānara, I dwell in the bodies of living beings; joined with prāṇa and apāna, I digest food of the four kinds:
with this prayer, and only then, you must eat. When you pray to God with such a pure feeling, that food becomes pure. From today at least, utter this holy mantra before you eat; no fault whatever will enter your heart. “Annaṃ Brahma raso Viṣṇuḥ, bhoktā devo Maheśvaraḥ”: this brings trikaraṇaśuddhi. Trikaraṇaśuddhi itself is Jñāna. It does not matter if you do no sādhana at all. Many people do one sādhana or another. But all those sādhanas are only for a passing satisfaction of the mind! You must experience lasting Ānanda.
Embodiments of Prema! Above all else, Ṛta is very great. It cannot be set aside in any of the three times. That is, it does not change in past, future or present. That itself is true Jñāna. What changes according to time is ‘māraka’. What does not change at any time and stands forever is ‘tāraka’.
If you would know the aim of the tāraka, brother, by the grace of the Sadguru, sift out the difference and see it, brother: with no veil of forgetting falling, ever, in waking, dream and deep sleep, without reserve, at all times, again and again the jīvātma recites it. Tāraka...