Video Information:<br /><br />ShabdYog Satsang, Month of Awakening<br />25th June 2019<br />Naukuchiatal, Uttarakhand<br /><br />Context:<br /><br />What is the real intention behind a real Teacher's saying?<br />How should one understand a teacher?<br />How can one come to see the Truth?<br /><br />EATING AND DRINKING<br />Then an old man, a keeper of an inn, said, Speak to us of Eating and Drinking.<br />And he said:<br />Would that you could live on the fragrance of the earth,<br />and like an air plant be sustained by the light.<br />But since you must kill to eat, and rob the newly born of its mother’s milk to<br />quench your thirst, let it then be an act of worship.<br />And let your board stand an altar on which the pure and the innocent of forest<br />and plain are sacrificed for that which is purer and still more innocent in man.<br />When you kill a beast say to him in your heart:<br />‘By the same power that slays you, I too am slain; and I too shall be consumed.<br />‘For the law that delivered you into my hand shall deliver me into a mightier<br />hand.<br />‘Your blood and my blood is naught but the sap that feeds the tree of heaven.’<br />And when you crush an apple with your teeth, say to it in your heart:<br />'Your seeds shall live in my body,<br />‘And the buds of your tomorrow shall blossom in my heart,<br />‘And your fragrance shall be my breath,<br />‘And together we shall rejoice through all the seasons.’<br />And in the autumn, when you gather the grapes of your vineyard for the wine-<br />press, say in your heart:<br />‘I too am a vineyard, and my fruit shall be gathered for the wine press,<br />‘And like new wine I shall be kept in eternal vessels.’<br /><br />Music Credits: Milind Date
